Профиль

Flounced rustic showing off its flounces

Really pleased with how that first glaze firing turned out, overall! Definitely a learning process, but most of my glaze experiments all came out just about as I was hoping. Featuring @scrappapertiger.bsky.social's art as well as some of mine.

I've also been seeing some great moths thanks to Sonny's lightbox! Here are four of my pictures. See alt text for ID and commentary. #NationalMothWeek #WorldMothWeek #lepidoptera

Patience is not passivity. It is the active decision to let the world finish its sentence before you reply.

I have watched wasps, pigeons, earthworms, and orchids long enough to know that no creature is ordinary. Every one has a story I will never finish reading.

Garden grass-veneer. I get like a bajillion of these tiny moths every time I put out the moth box. I always enjoy looking at them super close up though - the slightly startled-looking eyes, the little fairy snoot that waves about… #NationalMothWeek

Yellow tail. Probably one of my favourites so far. It kept flying off to stare through a glass door into the building I was at, until I had to take out somewhere with more foliage so it wouldn’t get accidentally squished by through-traffic #NationalMothWeek

Peppered moth - famous for being a demonstration of natural selection during the Industrial Revolution, when peppered moths in polluted towns and cities increasingly became black for better camouflage, while countryside moths remained white with black spots. #NationalMothWeek

It’s #NationalMothWeek! I’ve been meeting some really really good moths lately with the help of my light box. Here is a thread of them. @mothweek.bsky.social Buff ermine

@oolong.co.uk and I just fired our first load of ceramics. This morning I took out of the kiln one of my favourite things I think I’ve made: a dragon for our pond. We also set up a new insta for things we make: www.instagram.com/fernycrafts

This is a thorough, enlightening article on Veganism & food accessibility, that’s refreshingly compassionate towards those of us with medically restricted diets. No belittling or scorning, just a deep dive into food culture as it pertains to dietary restrictions & adherence. A worthwhile read.

Following my recent hospital stay, I was moved to write about something I've had in mind for a while: how restricted diets may be something people choose, but once you become someone who doesn't eat certain things, declining to eat them is NOT a choice every meal... oolong.medium.com/needs-vs-wan...

I see many similar discussions in therapy circles that I think are essentially about misplaced trust or distrust. Read the rest of this piece over on my Medium: medium.com/@sonnyhallet...

The question is: ‘Do I trust my own ability to only do what feels manageable for me?’ If the answer to handling emails is ‘no’, then I would need a different email policy – but still one that doesn’t put that responsibility to hold my boundaries on anyone else.

To me, the question isn’t ‘do I trust clients to hold my boundary’ – because they can’t and that’s not reasonable. How can they know what my capacity is in any given week?

My email policy is that folks I work with can email me as much as they want, but there is a limit to how much I can read and respond. A question I often get from other therapists about that is “What if a client emails you all the time?” Or even “How can you trust that clients won’t abuse that?”

How often are therapists’ feelings of distrust (or policies that are basically about distrust) towards clients actually more about distrust of our own boundaries/capacity to hold? This is probably equally relevant to other helping/holding professions like coaching, teaching, support work, etc.

People with restrictive eating conditions like ARFID (but this isn’t restricted just to folks with ARFID) will literally starve to death rather than eat certain foods. Plus forcing people to eat things that disgust them or that go against their beliefs through starvation is.. kind of torture-y?

Thank you 🌷

Jamie, I know you also meant well, and I know you do a lot of things to work towards better provision. As a person supporting Fergus through this frightening experience I also found your comments in this discussion really difficult, while knowing you meant well. Please just take this feedback?