HeyJaredJeanette Winterson: Mind Over Matter
Imagination. Ideas. Creativity. Conversation. This is the life of the Mind.
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A week after the Equinox (opens the original)
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The sun has crossed directly over the equator, and so it is officially autumn in the Northern hemisphere and summer for our friends Down Under.This week I had my hedges cut and my winter firewood sawn and split from last year’s fallen trees. Most of them lie where they fall, and any brash is thrown in to make habitat, but there’s enough for me and the fires I will need out here when it gets colder.I am glad this brutal summer is over. I spent so much time keeping my little world alive that I had
The Day of Atonement (opens the original)
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What about you? I am not a religious tourist. I was brought up in the Christian Evangelical faith, as many of you know, and while I am dismayed at how the American Right has co-operated that branch of active faith, turning it into an agenda for warmongering, toxic masculinity, discrimination, inequality, and Pope-bashing, I still feel love for the beautiful basics of that expression of faith - welcoming the poor and needy, building community, accepting that this world of money and power is never
More questions than answers (opens the original)
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I am on my way to London to speak at the Queen Elizabeth Hall this afternoon. Thanks to everyone who helped sell out the 900 seats. We are nothing if we are not in dialogue. What is a dialogue? It’s how Socrates taught his pupils. It is a conversation with edges. It is not necessarily agreeing. It is finding common ground, and just as importantly, finding new ground. It’s what happens when we read.Share</sp
In Paris (opens the original)
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There is no need to log onto Substack when you don’t feel like it.There is no need to keep up ( with what?)There is no need to complain about the algorithm pushing one thing ignoring another.There is no need to invest ANY of your time or your money where you would rather not be. And if you do support a writer, that’s great, but you don’t have to welcome them into your head every week. You can go away for the weekend!There is no need to try for fame and fortune by trashing others.There is no need
Birthdays. (opens the original)
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I just had a birthday. It happens once a year so I know it’s coming, but this year I got the wrong day. Not the date. The day. It was something to do with my trip to China and all the days melting into one another so that when the actual day came I wasn’t ready.OK, then, I thought, what does it matter? All I want is to be in my garden. I don’t want to see anyone, speak to anyone, go anywhere. I’m folded up like a fern.My extravert friends were baffled but coped. It’s easy, I think, for introvert
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