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where the page takes you (opens the original)
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Welcome back to Field Notes on Becoming.Every week, I share a handful of journal prompts alongside my own reflections from the week, inviting us both to pause and notice where our attention has gone before the next week begins.This instalment is inspired by a creative journaling workshop I ran with Faber earlier this week, centred around the changing season and using our journals as a space to think, notice, and create. We explored the idea that journaling doesn’t always have to be about documen
on protecting limited reserves (opens the original)
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Welcome back to Field Notes on Becoming.Every week, I share a handful of journal prompts alongside my own reflections from the week, inviting us both to pause and notice where our attention has gone before the next week begins.This week, I’m reflecting on what happens when there simply isn’t enough energy for everything: what I’m prioritising, what I’m letting go of, and what I’m protecting.Continue reading with a paid subscription.<span style="color: r
a map of home (opens the original)
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Welcome back to Field Notes on Becoming.Every week, I share a handful of journal prompts alongside my own reflections from the week, inviting us both to pause and notice where our attention has gone before the next week begins.This week, I’m reflecting on what makes a place feel like home, what it means to leave somewhere that has shaped you, and how we can begin to put down roots somewhere new.Continue reading with a paid subscription.Fie
the myth of seasonal self-reinvention (opens the original)
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Every September, my social media feeds tell me that it is time to become a completely different person. There are variations on the theme: reinvent yourself, enter your new era, become unrecognisable. Lock in. This is your season. This content is omnipresent, but seems to appear particularly aggressively at two points in the year: January, for obvious reasons, and September, when the cultural memory of the new academic year, coupled with the shifting season, seems to convince us that we should a
a map for a gentle autumn (opens the original)
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Autumn has always felt a little contradictory to me. On the one hand, it is a season of retreat: shortening days, colder weather, and life gradually moving indoors again. I find myself craving familiar books and films, and brewing endless pots of loose-leaf tea. I love the slower evenings and the small rituals that make the colder months feel comforting rather than bleak. As someone inclined towards cosiness, the end of summer comes with a sense of relief; a sense of settling back into myself af
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