Substrate

On Wednesday, I caught up with my good friend and collaborator Laura Hilliger. She's currently on sabbatical, but with someone as galaxy brain as Laura, that just means directing her talents and attention to something that isn't client work.

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Yesterday, I had my third coaching session with Annalise Lewis of Manifesto. My write-up of the second session with her contains links to the workshop where I first experienced her approach and an overview of my first session.

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What follows are my reflections of my second coaching session with Annalise Lewis of Manifesto. I've written up the first one about archetypes on my blog, as well as my reflections on the Myths We Live By workshop which introduced me to her work.

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I returned from Lisbon last night to the test print of my first zine having been delivered while we’re away.

This morning I’ve had a good look at it and, although I’ve got a few tweaks to make for the final print, it’s turned out really nicely!

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As I think I've mentioned previously, in the past few weeks I've had a couple of conversations which were incredibly eye-opening to me. I think it's quite likely that I have what has, since 2013, been referred to as AuDHD. Essentially, it's something different to autism and ADHD when each are present individually, and is instead a complex, ever changing relationship.

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Let it be clear to you that the peace of green fields can always be yours, in this, that, or any other spot; and that nothing is any different here from what it would be either up in the hills, or down by the sea, or wherever else you will. You will find the same thought in Plato, where he speaks of living within the city walls ‘as though milking his flocks in a mountain sheepfold’.

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(via Laura Olin's newsletter)

Worth remembering. We're all different shapes, colours, and sizes on the outside, and also have different wiring on the inside.

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Source: Are.na

Sometimes, it's easy to forget that despite the world's problems, the chances are we would all much rather be alive now than in times past.

Why? Here's 5 reasons:

1. Global life expectancy is approximately 73.66 years, compared to medieval England (c.30–35 years), or even the year 1900 (c.31 years globally). Even since the year 2000 there have been huge gains, with maternal deaths dropping over 40% between 2000 and 2023, and child deaths under the age of 5 more than halving. And that's despite COVID-19 and cuts to aid budgets. So a child born today has much better odds of reaching adulthood than at any prior point in history. We forget this in WEIRD societies sometimes.
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