January 2025

[muninnhuginn]

January 2025

Read:

Shorts:

• The Reminder by Ida Keogh
• Not Lost(Never Lost) by Premee Mohamed
• 7:55:46 AM, EDT by ohtempora
• GHOST-BOYFRIEND COMES TO DINNER by Chelsea Sutton
• good bones by mumblemumble

Non-fiction:

• Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court by Lucy Worsley (K)

• The death of a domestic cat from bird flu is a reminder: raw pet diets are not safe. by Dr. Andrea Love
• ‘I became an optimist the night my wife died’: a science writer on loss and letting go of rationalism by Sumit Paul-Choudhury
• The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay by Sophie Pinkham
• Bad Shape by Erin Kissane
• Luca is the progenitor of all life on Earth. But its genesis has implications far beyond our planet by Philip Ball
• Miniature Knitter Julie Steiner Reimagines Iconic Sweaters in Itty Bitty Form by Charlotte Beach
• Labour's AI Action Plan - a gift to the far right by Dan McQuillan
• The fight to save the native Welsh honeybee by Carwyn Graves
• Why North England is poor. by Tom Forth
• Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it by Nesrine Malik
• When I Don't Recognize What's In Front Of Me by Cindy Baldwin
• All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot by Amy Fleming

 

Floated through the month, achieving little. Need to shake myself out of this.

Comments

[coth]

I think if you needed to float you were entitled to, and achieving little is enough. Be kind to yourself. When you have the energy for more you will get more done.

[muninnhuginn]

You are, of course, right. I think I've managed to regain enough energy that I'm starting to want to do more/feel guilty about not doing more without having sufficient oomph to achieve much of it.

[coth]

I know that one. But when it comes to getting things done on top of surviving and healing you have to go from 'not enough yet' through 'not enough more yet' to get to 'enough now'. Take it easy and it will come in time.

All best wishes for the meanwhile.

[muninnhuginn]

Thank you.