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SUMMER SOLSTICE 2022
The balance between being and doing is hard. We are obsessed with doing - and when we are not doing, we are looking at our phones, which is the doing that has replaced being. How to build a self ? How to find time to reflect? Time off has become the exercise class, self-improvement, a trip to the therapist, a vacation where the to-do and to-see lis
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How are you being you? Have you had to make adjustments? Are you keeping yourself together? Can you distinguish between what the world wants of you and what you want of yourself? The you that is a performer. The you that can come off-stage? Can you come off-stage? Are you OK with who you are when no-one is looking? Have you got any time to be who y
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So let me ask you: How are you being? Not doing, or going. Being
Jeanette Winterson • SUMMER SOLSTICE 2022
Even with money and freedom these are difficult times to be alive. As the money dwindles and freedoms disappear, ‘how’ gets harder. How can I feed my kids? How can I pay the bills? How are we going to survive?
We don’t know other people’s stories, but we know our own, and we know how hard we try, and we know what we deny, just to get thr
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