HeyJaredFully Alive by Elizabeth Oldfield
I’m Elizabeth Oldfield and I write about tending to our souls, staying loyal to our values and seeking spiritual core strength in these trembling times. Spirituality, poetry, plants.
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Settle for less, enjoy it more (opens the original)
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Last week I went to a lovely birthday party. A friend had hired a band and organised some delicious food and even people to take care of the kids. I danced to Brixton Ska (follow the link to brighten your day) with friends and generally felt delighted to be alive. The other thing she had organised was a tarot reader, whose name I have forgotton (blame the cocktails) but was something like Carol. She wore a floral print smock top that could have come from BHS and had a sensible haircut in the kin
Finding belonging in the modern world (opens the original)
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Neighbouring is prepping (and I might not be very prepped) (opens the original)
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Grieving for beauty (opens the original)
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In East Anglia, the pregnant belly of these Isles jutting out towards Europe, there is a bridge. It crosses a wide section of the River Orwell just south of Ipswich, a few miles upstream from where the river mingles with the sea at Felixstowe. Below the bridge, out past the industrial estates, sailing boats zigzag gracefully in and out from their marina, fields dip their toes, trees sway and sandpipers wade at the shallow edges. Or at least, I think they do. I’ve driven across this bridge many t
Practices for "inner prepping" (opens the original)
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