HeyJaredThe Light on the Sea
A newsletter from Gillian Eilidh O'Mara, Scottish artist, writer and children's book creator. Thoughts on the beauty in uncertainty.
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On Regret (opens the original)
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Making Art in a World on Fire (opens the original)
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Special Edition: A birthday gift from me to you (opens the original)
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A Dawning (opens the original)
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Forty Feelings (opens the original)
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Like many of my close friends, I am very soon turning forty. I don’t really know what to make of it, yet. I’m resisting making lists of life’s wins and losses and am especially avoiding any claims to having forty pieces of deep wisdom to impart. Nobody really needs another one of those and honestly, until I follow my own advice more successfully, I won’t be pushing it on you. Truthfully, I don’t really know what to say. These days, I’m in a liminal space, trying to befriend uncertainly and hold
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