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Join me at The Tortoise

The Tortoise is a beautiful community space where we hear each other, support each other and learn and grow and experiment with slow living in all its different forms. Come say hi.

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Thank you

Thank you all for your kind comments after I posted about my slow return. I have read them all and let them fill my heart up in a way I haven’t really allowed in years.

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A Slow Return

I’ve written and re-written this introduction more than a dozen times, trying to succinctly explain why I disappeared seven months ago.

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The Pang™

I struggle with the idea of enough-ness. Of being enough and doing enough. I mean, it’s not like I’m aiming for the stars here either. Enter: The Pang.

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Bringing back the blog, baby!

Maybe it’s nostalgia. Maybe it’s because I’m getting older. Maybe it’s a transition we’re all feeling two years into a global pandemic - searching for something real. Whatever it is, I’m bringing back the blog (and, over the coming weeks, the newsletter too).

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Art as activism with Brenna Quinlan

Brenna Quinlan has a superhuman ability to take complex ideas and make them simple (and beautiful) - a skill much-needed in today’s world. In this episode she shares why it’s so important to focus our efforts on creative, positive, solutions-based activism.

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