I'm kicking off my stress-free November with things that make me happy. Like putting up fairy lights and trawling the internet for essays and poetry, truths and stories. Here is a selection of my favourites.
Adventures in Depression by Allie Brosh of Hyperbole and a Half.
Damien Rice covering I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. Amazingly good.
For all book-lovers out there, a tongue-in-cheek article on whether reading on the loo is bad for you.
You know how well-written essays reduce me into a flailing mess of admiration and happiness?
Well, here's one: Will Self wrote a stunning, heartbreaking essay on illness, addiction and mortality.
Another thing I can't get enough of is spoken word poetry. Sarah Kay on long distance relationships.
And finally, when I was born, I was the 5,524,617,285th person alive. And the 80,727,002,777th person ever to have lived. What about you?
thank you for the link to Sarah Kay's beautiful work. with 3000 miles between me and my love, I have felt so much of what she spoke about (though I've never been able to articulate it quite that elegantly)
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