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Two pictures. On the right, me ten years ago, leaping in the air with my arms outstretched. On the left, me now, lying in bed.
December 1, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

It’s Ten Years since the Beginning of the Decade!

Barbed wire is stretched across a blurry scene of green grass and trees. Below the wire is written sometimes I can sever the cruelty-pain link someone has forged between us.
November 3, 2019November 3, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Boundaries Again: The Doing!

A grey stone rests on fabric with a floral pattern. There is purple writing on the stone which reads, to live is to be vulnerable.
September 18, 2019September 29, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Aboard the Ship Self-Help 2: But won’t being vulnerable make me really vulnerable…?

A bad watercolour picture I painted of a person in a small dinghy with the name Self-Help on its stern.
September 14, 2019September 14, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Welcome to my Voyage on the Good Ship Self-Help

A much simplified, colouring by numbers version of The Starry Night painting by Van Gogh.
September 12, 2019September 12, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Adding to the Pile of Good Things

A white person with blonde hair. They are looking down and holding a plait over their eyes.
September 8, 2019September 8, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

I Hate Having Carers: A Rant

A woodland scene with deciduous trees growing close together. On the largest tree trunk is a white notice with keep out written on it in marker pen.
August 4, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

What are These Boundary Things and How do I get One?

A small, battered, blue notebook with a rabbit cut into the cover. Illegible words have been written on it in black permanent marker. Inset in the bottom right corner is childish pencilled writing, reading "this story" and, on a separate line, "hope you like it". At the top of the whole picture is written "My first book!" in an old fashioned typeface.
April 30, 2019May 1, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Five Times Telling Stories Saved My Life

a white woman with long hair (me) has an arm and a leg sticking out of an upstairs window and is grinning
February 16, 2019October 17, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Trying To Get Off The Optimism Train

three dessert spoons and six teaspoons lying jumbled on a pink and black fabric
February 3, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Speaking of Spoons

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