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Writing playground - a place to explore and experiment with writing. Here you can find posts about everyday moments, self-awareness, identity, changes, small joys, gratitude and how to live a life of a writer when it's not your job.
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The power and beauty of choices (opens the original)
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Welcome, dear reader. How have you been? Let’s have some tea and talk about choices and our inner team. My sister sent me a note informing me that on the 28th of December 2026 I will be 20 000 days old. The unexpected and fascinating fact landed in my inbox and made a dent in my brain. It reminded me of the saying “Don’t count the days, make the days count” and also conjured images of a cake for it’s a number that creates a plausible cause for a celebration.“Make the days count” pairs well with
Permission slips for transition time (opens the original)
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Welcome, dear reader. Ready for a cup of tea? I visited a tea shop, so now you get to choose between Jade Snow (green tea), Pear Mist (oolong), Silver Moonlight (white tea), Liu Bao (dark tea), Red Happiness (fruit mix), or I can snip some peppermint from the flowerbox on the balcony. Let me share with you why I skipped last week’s writing, what inspired the post this week and what permission slips I wrote for myself.Surely everyone (making a wide brush assumption here) has heard the advice that
How to climb out of the darkness of my own doom thinking (opens the original)
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Welcome, welcome, dear reader. May I offer you a cup of tea? Or would you like beetroot latte instead? As we fill the cups and sit in comfort, let me share how thoughts can darken a sunny summer and gratitude and writing can be of help. With school starting we can consider this as the end of the summer. Strangely, after this summer without a job it feels as if I had no summer at all. Looking back it seems like one long rainy day.But it is not true. It was not a bad summer, it had many beautiful
The words we use (opens the original)
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Welcome, dear reader. Thank you for finding the time to visit. I bought a lemon yesterday and baked lemon Madeleines. Let’s eat them and drink tea, while we speak about words. Words are for all of us to use. At all times. Whenever we need them. They surround us here, there, everywhere. We have dictionaries full of words to choose from. Say one word or two, or create complex sentences and talk for hours. The words roll off our tongues, flow onto papers, fill our heads from within and from outside
The layered self (opens the original)
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Welcome, dear reader. Have you ever tried a blueberry-lemongrass mocktail? I drank one on Wednesday after an art exhibition visit. Sitting in a cafe’s lush backyard garden I sipped the drink and jotted about the art viewing experience in my journal. It was as strong reminder that there is no other way to see and experience the art than through the context of your life and state of mind.My timing for arriving on a slow art tour was spot on. At exactly four o’clock on Wednesday afternoon I took th
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