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June: Sausage rolls, Suicide, Suicidal Plants.

Not reporting a theft could save a life, my mental health is no longer killing my plants.

alive, bedtimes, BrainTemple, costoflivingcrisis, creativenonfiction, earlystarts, greggs, houseplants, Mentalhealth, mistakenidentity, news, nonfiction, organisation, plants, prison, sausagerolls, suicide, theft, theguardian, thoughtcollections, vibes

Everyone’s a Critic: The Careless Commentator

If Drake and I and you and that guy over there were all releasing an equal amount of content, we’d all be a little kinder.

adviceandcritic, critic, drake, fomo, honestlynevermind, judgement, kind, nonfiction, opinion, socialmedia, thought, thoughtful

A week of thoughts #2

Strangers in the house and Gym culture (and clutching for straws)

creativenonfiction, family, god, gym, gymculture, nonfiction, personalanechdote, thoughtcollections, untoldstories, work

Being Tired Can Change Everything

Youtube, good exhaustion, child Q, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe/Annosheh Ashoori

AnooshehAshoori, black, ChildQ, creativenonfiction, feelings, god, hope, London, NazaninZaghariRatcliffe, new, nonfiction, Personal, Racism, reflection, stories, thoughts, unfiltered, youtube

The Evolution of a January

Wailing about the self-destructive waterlogged first month of the year, and learning how to escape it

acceptance, creativenonfiction, diary, emotions, feelings, god, hope, january, lessons, logic, newyear, nonfiction, opinion, perfection, reflection, resolutions, unfiltered, untoldstories, values

Stories from the 2021

I’m bloody tired

2021, 2022, acceptance, black, Blackbrits, creativenonfiction, dreams, feelings, god, hope, lessons, life, newyear, newyearsresolutions, nonfiction, Personal, reflection, unfiltered, values

A week of thoughts #1

It feels awkward, suspicious to be someone of few opinions.

antivaxxers, black, Coronavirus, creativenonfiction, diary, feelings, nature, nonfiction, opinion, Personal, personalanechdote, thoughtcollections, thoughts, tired, unfiltered, untoldstories

I’m rebranding Crush-ball

Ever so slightly so that it barely matters

blogintroduction, creativenonfiction, diary, journalism, new, Personal, reflection, unfiltered, untoldstories

Don’t forget…

My Grandma has Dementia, but somehow that’s done nothing for my own memory.

adviceandcritic, creativenonfiction, Dementia, family, god, Memory, nonfiction, Personal, Promises, Religion, stories, thoughts, Trust

Black People are Real People

A fully alive, fully outstretched black person taking up as much space as they need is the most frightening black person, so be scary.

advice, adviceandcritic, black, blackness, creativenonfiction, ElijahMcClain, feelings, institutionalracism, Multifaceted, nonfiction, Personal, Policebrutality, Racism, stories, thoughts, twoyears, unfiltered

EU-ROPE-ING while Black: one story

They just watched us get darker and darker, welcoming in the deeper glow, disgusted. But what could they do?

black, blackbritain, blackness, blacktravellers, creativenonfiction, europe, god, lessons, London, mallorca, nonfiction, personalanechdote, Racism, reflection

Black Tragedy: One Familiar Story of Blackness

His story isn’t unique to him. The details may be, but the overall portrait of his circumstances lend themselves to the narratives of black people murdered by the streets all over.

blackbritain, institutionalracism, knifecrime, nonfiction, Racism, reflection, youth

Come Out Swinging: Boxing saves

A long read on boxing’s saviour role in the lives of London’s young boys from inside a local youth boxing club, written months before the world lost its head

black, blackbritain, blackness, boxing, governmentcuts, guncrime, institutionalracism, journalism, knifecrime, London, nonfiction, Racism, untoldstories, values, youth

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