Spent some time in an actual office this week There are some things that don’t make sense here in the 21st century. Things, I feel, that don’t belong in the year 2023. Like sexism and racism and LGBTQI-hatin’ and war. Like men policing women’s bodies, like slavery, like genociding animals. Like pollution and greed andContinueContinue reading “Hey cheesebags”
Author Archives: Tanya Meeson
AW11: Recovering a Sense of Autonomy
(Just a quick aside: most of my blogging is happening on Substack so if you’d like to join me there please do!) My God it’s been a loooooong almost six months on this Artist’s Way trip. But this chapter reminded me that a lot has genuinely changed since I started on 1 January this year.ContinueContinue reading “AW11: Recovering a Sense of Autonomy”
AW10: Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection
You know those people who say, “God I miss school. Those were the best days of my life” or “What I wouldn’t give to be a kid again” or “My twenties were the best years of my life”? I am not one of those people. And sometimes, Artist’s Way just feels like one giant, pain-in-the-assContinueContinue reading “AW10: Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection”
AW9: Recovering a Sense of Compassion
It’s fitting that this chapter of Cameron’s Artist’s Way is called Recovering a Sense of Compassion; fitting that she talks about “the creative u-turn”. Fitting also, that in the intro she says, “It may be tempting to abandon ship at this point.” The last two or so weeks have been … something of a surprise.ContinueContinue reading “AW9: Recovering a Sense of Compassion”
Guilty as sin
When the landscape of wrongdoing is so vast, where’s the value in feeling bad? It’s a horror scene. I’m in the lounge looking up at the ceiling and the blood dripping from it. There’s a suitcase hidden there, oozing from the limbs I stuffed in it. I must do something about the bodies before theContinueContinue reading “Guilty as sin”
TANYA MEESON 