Writing for Wellbeing

This is a writing prompt if I’ve ever seen one

Feet in wooly Christmas socks propped up before fireplace

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Being your very best is also about taking good care of yourself, resting when you need to, and treating yourself kindly.

What’s the novel, please?

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Painting of woman in medieval dress looking sad with an open book on her lap, while a kneeling man holds her hand. Caption reads: ‘An Author Mourns their Typo’

I am an academic editor in my other life when I’m not teaching writing workshops, so this makes me laugh. (And also to remind authors that a professional editor is worth it.)

Ooh, I didn’t buy that one. Maybe I’ll go back tomorrow and get it!

Books - including Tom Cox’s Villager- on shelf in Rosebud Books, Porto

What did I find at Rosebud Bookshop in Porto, but a copy of Tom Cox’s Villager (published by Swift!) @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social.
Rosebud Bookshop is a really excellent English-language independent bookshop, a bit off beaten track. If you’re in Porto, check it out on Rua de Cedofeita
#books #Porto

Good news!

Earlier this year I shared reports that the land around the Cerne Abbas Giant was up for sale

I’m delighted that, after lots of conversations, the land has now been bought by the National Trust (who already own the Giant): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Still using the translator in my phone, I see that I can also opt for some ‘Camel drool’ for dessert.

Eating seafood in Portugal. The translator in my phone is very helpfully telling me that I am eating ‘You perceive the natural’, and ‘Stuffed shoe rack’.
#LostInTranslation

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The Night Gardener — Terry and Eric Fan
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Tom Stoppard

‘It’s the wanting to know that makes us matter.’
[from Arcadia, one of the most moving plays I have ever seen]
RIP Tom Stoppard. Absolute legend
#TomStoppard

Oxford comma, Oxford comma, Oxford comma, Oxford comma, and Oxford comma
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Wood sculpture in rich brown wood of buddha resting while leaning head on bent knee

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As bookstore numbers decline in Japan, many are leasing out shelves The shelves are leased out to book lovers to allow them to sell the works they want to recommend, fostering communities of such “shelf owners.”

An increasing number of bookstores in Japan are leasing out their shelves to book lovers to allow them to sell the works they want to recommend, fostering communities of such “shelf owners.”

Deichman-Bjorvika Library, Oslo, photo taken from upper level looking down at two other levels with open foyer in middle

Another in my series of libraries
Deichman-Bjorvika Library, Oslo
#SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky

Don't trip over what is behind you.

#WednesdayWisdom
#WednesdayMotivation
#WednesdayThoughts
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Glass-wing butterfly on pink flowers

‘The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.’
~ W.B. Yeats
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Person with wooly-socked feet propped up in front of Christmas tree

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Starry sky

‘The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.’
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sam Brown

Columns and capitals made of vines and foliage, with dragons at the corners and a saint (probably St John the Evangelist) holding a book

Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts
#SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky

Blue and green spiral of sea, land, people, birds, animals, trees and plants

“Poetry is not a fancy way of giving you information; it’s an incantation. It is actually a magic spell. It changes things; it changes you.”
― Philip Pullman
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Edward Albee

“Creativity is magic, don’t examine it too closely.”
~ Edward Albee
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The perfect place to begin is exactly where you are right now.

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#WednesdayMotivation
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River and woods with snowy mountains rising in background

‘I would like to do whatever it is that presses the essence from the hour.’
― Ellen Meloy
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black and white photo of to cats wearing small round sunglasses in the window of a "lunetterie"

You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925

“November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.
With night coming early,
And dawn coming late,
And ice in the bucket
And frost by the gate.
The fires burn
And the kettles sing,
And earth sinks to rest
Until next spring.”
― Elizabeth Coatsworth

Stacked stones in Zen sand garden with lotus flower

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