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100 Questions/ 41-50

Posted on August 9, 2017 by anyushka

41. What superpower would you most like to have? Healing. 42. If you were granted three wishes, what would you do with the second wish? I would ask for a beautiful little house in the Lake District.  43. What is … Continue reading →

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Shape

Posted on August 6, 2017 by anyushka

  If you have to fold to fit in it ain’t right.   Yrsa Daley-Ward  

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Self-Trust

Posted on June 2, 2017 by anyushka

via Quote of the day — welcome to my little piece of quiet In response to self-doubt, there surely must also be such a thing as self-trust…  The result of learning to step away from everyone else’s drama and needs … Continue reading →

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Mary, Mother

Posted on February 27, 2017 by anyushka

. With your warm hands heal me in your body know me to your darkness draw me at your breast hold me. For I was homesick, and you brought me home; I was alone, and now I am in touch; … Continue reading →

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HOME – Warsan Shire

Posted on July 25, 2016 by anyushka

no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well your neighbors running faster than you breath bloody in their throats the boy … Continue reading →

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Kindness Check-In (Lent 2016)

Posted on February 20, 2016 by anyushka

It’s been a week and a half now that I’ve been trying to be kinder to myself which is my ‘Lenten practice’ this year. I feel it might be good to check in with myself, to see how my daily decisions may … Continue reading →

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My Hell, My Heaven

Posted on October 19, 2015 by anyushka

I went out for drinks after work today after all of us had ‘suffered through’ the usual type of Monday, and one of us mentioned the Oktoberfest in Munich. I said something along the lines of, “That’s my idea of … Continue reading →

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The Grace of Solitude

Posted on October 9, 2015 by anyushka

“Fellowship with Christ is a table only for two — set in the wilderness. Inwardness is not a gaudy party, but the meeting of lovers in the lonely desert of the human heart. There, where all life and fellowship can … Continue reading →

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End of Holiday Occupations…

Posted on August 29, 2015 by anyushka

What am I doing today? Searching for jobs in Germany. More decisively so than I have, ever… The thought has occurred to me in the last days that if I have the courage to go to Paris on my own, … Continue reading →

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Leipzig

Posted on August 5, 2015 by anyushka

I have no idea what I’ll be writing about, really. What is Leipzig to me? It’s a recent conversation with a friend about why I’m not in Germany, and why there is the possibility again of returning. Talking of feeling … Continue reading →

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