Headspace
This is @esceulus' scrapbook. A place to keep things and write things down.. When not writing stuff, I can often be found wheeling London. This is also the place where the things that make me go "wow" get sent to hang-out. This may get crowded... I'm often wowed
Therapy
Enter.
Sit down. Unburden. Stand up.
Exit.
The weight I thought was gone has returned,
Albeit gradually.
The opposite of the feeling I had,
When as a child,
I put my thumbs in my pockets
And pulled my arms outwards.
“My hair’s important because it disarms people. That’s the thing I appreciate about it more than anything else. And it tells people that I think, that I don’t just do whatever everyone else does, I guess.”
— Djon Mundine (as told to Meredith Jones, p55 Trunk volume one)
![Trunk volume one: Hair Edited by Suzanne Boccalatte & Meredith Jones with a foreword by Lenny Henry RRP $50.00
2nd hand bookshops are awesome. This was published in Auz, a limited print run and really wasn’t meant to reach the UK. But it did, and it’s so great that it happened. There are some really lovely stories in here (and pictures too if imagery is your thing, but words are mine) and I’m stoked that I have a copy. Especially one that didn’t cost me so much cash to get.
[photographed with a reading clip light]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/1f9e1768bc93d549e0326a0f69a806cd/tumblr_mnrjl2gcRP1r7ju92o1_1280.jpg)
if I feel like X, instead I could Y
Taken from page 12 of Unsewing My Lips, by atiah
if I feel like watching films/tv,
instead, I could
write, listen to music, read…
if I feel like hiding from the world,
instead, I could
check if I’ve eaten & slept, and rectify if not…
if I feel like juice,
instead, I could
drink herbal teas, mmm… yarrow…
if I feel like junk food - sweet,
instead, I could
drink water, eat dried fruits, drink hot cocoa
with date syrup, bake something with no sugar (stevia!)…
if I feel like junk food - salty,
instead, I could
drink water, snack on vegetables, make a stirfry
with tamari/ peanut/ chilli, bake something savoury, check
if I’ve eaten properly & rectify if not…
if I feel like staying in bed all day,
instead, I could
force myself out to do five minutes of tidying/
writing/ dancing/ jumping/ any movement, go for a walk
amongst trees…
if I feel like I can’t write/ draw/ be inspired,
instead, I could
walk amongst trees, stop trying & do something
practical instead…
“Breaking the cycle with celibacy.”
— Taken from “Unsewing My Lips” - a zine by atiah
