Category: Community
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Generosity rather than gratitude
Today is International Day of Charity. As such, today’s post is a reminder to think about others rather than yourself. A while ago I wrote a post about how I replaced the desire for “less pain” with the hope of “more joy”. The shift sounds small, but it was in…
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“That’s ableism!” … or is it?
This post is potentially a little bit controversial, but… I think it warrants my time and yours to put it out there and get people thinking… and talking. Months ago, I read a blog post written by someone with a disability. They wrote that despite the day-to-day difficulties they were…
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Merit badges for adulting
When I was young, I was a Boy Scout. It’s true! In Australia at least, if you’re aged over 14 you can join the Boy Scouts as a Venturer. That’s what I was. We used to go hiking, camp in the snow, sail, explore, get lost, have fun, live our…
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Stating the understated
Yesterday I wrote about receiving advice from Julius Caesar in a dream. I ummed and ahhed about whether to include information about his death in the post. I decided against it, because I wanted the post to end on an upbeat tone. The reason I considered including it, is the…
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“I have a migraine” is NOT a lie
When I was in my 20s, I worked in the headquarters of a large Australian retail company, project managing the construction of their stores across the country. It was a great job, because I got flown around Australia, and OK, I wasn’t in holiday mode, but I got to see…
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Together apart
During the Covid-19 lockdown in Australia, there was a saying that kept doing the rounds in public service announcements: “together apart” – it was a neat way of explaining that we were all in isolation together… not alone in our aloneness… I’m not sure why I made the mental connection,…
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Instagram for migraines
Instagram is a completely different world compared to my experience on Twitter-X. I’ve only been there for a few months, mostly posting links to blog-posts, uploading my experiments with AI art and the very occasional image from my life. It is a much more visual place than Twitter-X’s ‘wordy’ format. …
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Half a year old!
Can you believe it?!?@#$!?! The Mindful Migraine is 6 months old today! I usually go for an image of sparklers to mark the anniversaries of my monthly inchstones, but today’s a BIG date, so I went all out and exploded some fireworks as my post-image! When I first made my…
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The healing tide
For a recent post about Mt Everest, I was looking for an image of mountain climbers from WordPress-Pexels (where I get my blog images from unless they’re my own AI ones). It occurred to me that several of them had a ‘long way to go’ feeling, or else a sense…
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