a new home for your curiosity and questions. ✍️ Essays 🎙️ Interviews 🌍 Community 🙏 Contemplation By @grace__pengelly
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Some quick thoughts for @_TheMurmuration on how writers get their work done. (Spoiler: it's not magic!)
GOLDEN HOUR #011: a magical thinking library, by @Grace__Pengelly open.substack.com/pub/murmur…
A lunchtime err distraction?
Is my phone addiction a sin? I've written about our productivity obsession, avoidance mechanisms and acedia for @_TheMurmuration - click here to read & subscribe. 😊
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NEW on @_TheMurmuration
Noticing Loss: How shifting baseline syndrome can help us understand the nature of climate change.
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What does it mean to be postpartum? Last week's essay reflected on the postpartum experience and considers how it might be reframed for today. @jenniferabanks Read for free below:
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I've written about the philosophy of birth & postpartum on @_TheMurmuration
#007: Postpartum is Forever, by @Grace__Pengelly open.substack.com/pub/murmur…
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Currently knee-deep reading up on all things postpartum for my @_TheMurmuration newsletter which will go out to subscribers on Thursday. This week will feature wisdom on Natality from @jenniferabanks, Motherhood from @kerri_ni Sign up via the link in my bio 📩
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This week's @_TheMurmuration Golden Hour is a short film about 'morning pages' - preview here: open.substack.com/pub/murmur…
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Thank you to everyone who has been in touch about this essay. It is heartening to know I’m not alone 💚
‘I no longer care about being good enough. I care more about living a life that is wholly my own, and which reflects more accurately the things I care deeply about’
Thoughts on quitting my job, the meaning of work, and what it means to pursue a vocation:
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‘I no longer care about being good enough. I care more about living a life that is wholly my own, and which reflects more accurately the things I care deeply about’
Thoughts on quitting my job, the meaning of work, and what it means to pursue a vocation:
open.substack.com/pub/murmur…
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🚨 Personal news klaxon🚨
This is my final week of maternity leave and I've decided not to return to the mothership @WmCollinsBooks!From next week I will be taking on freelance writing & editorial work. I've written about why I'm leaving publishing here:
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‘Protest is always an act of the imagination, a way of saying: it doesn’t have to be like this’.
I wrote about attending the Iraq war march as a ten year old and the effect it had on my family. murmuration.substack.com/p/0…
Today's Murmuration reflects on the Iraq War and asks: is there any point in protest?
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The Murmuration by Grace Pengelly -- #006: A child’s-eye view of the Iraq War murmuration.substack.com/p/0…
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Listening to news coverage of the #IPCC report and feeling anxious? I wrote about how unproductive doomerism is for the climate movement and where our imaginations might lead us ⬇️
This week's edition of The Murmuration has landed: Doomerism is dead, long live the imagination!
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Join us this weekend for What is — what if — so what? at @lethabygallery as part of @MOULD_earth's #ArchitectureIsClimate residencies. Together we'll explore how we demonstrate neighbourhood-scale civic infrastructure for social and ecological transition.
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The Murmuration by Grace Pengelly: Doomerism is dead, long live the imagination! murmuration.substack.com/p/d…