January Challenges & Gems

Halfway through a demanding week

On Sunday, I read and had tea on my balcony. In January. Without extra layers.

When you wish it was Saturday on Tuesday

As I am beginning to write this, it is only Tuesday, and yet it feels like this week has already gone on for too long. After a tear-filled session with my therapist and a small, black cat that is too good at hiding causing me to have a minor (major) freak-out at night, I feel quite raw. 😭

Ahead of me:

• a (private) doctor’s appointment to check my iron levels and potential reasons for a low absorption rate 🩸🥦

• a dentist’s appointment to get a filling (covered by insurance) and for dental hygiene (which I’ll probably cancel, because - no energy and I don’t want to risk a crash). 😬🦷 Prioritize: filling - important; dental hygiene - not as much

• Saturday, when doctor’s visits are over for the week, only to start again the following Monday. Living the medical life!

  

Fodder for my soul

To balance out this challenging week, here are a few recent gems ✨🪩

☺️☎️🗨️ Conversations with friends & family: on various platforms, in dialogues or monologues

📖☕🌤️ Reading on my balcony, having a cup of herbal tea, on Sunday (see picture) 

🪄 A small vacuum for my cats’ small messes

Don’t worry, I don’t actually do that.

💌 Wonderfully long, overdue e-mails to friends

📽️🏞️ A peculiar, gem of a movie from Norway: Den sista Våren. A film about two sisters in northern Norway, mental illness, and climate change.

You can watch it on arte.tv: https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/116665-000-A/sister-what-grows-where-land-is-sick/ 

📻 Rediscovering Tracy Chapman 🩷

📚🐈🤓 The Cat Who Saved Books, a wonderful novel about exactly what the title promises: a cat who saves books. Need I say more?

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Words that remain

Glimmers

Glimmer: a micro moment of joy, awe, hope, safety; opposite of trigger

• This week, this:

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A question that remains…

Which movies have you watched in the last few months that were unexpected gems? ✨ 🪩 🎞️ Share the wealth!