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‘I like that I’m a woman who can still / be curious when she turns a corner.’
- Margot Kahn
'I am committed to never retiring from being myself.'
- Borrowed from someone, in a meeting
- Margot Kahn
'I am committed to never retiring from being myself.'
- Borrowed from someone, in a meeting
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· Sep 19
Moshe Feldenkrais, Selvarajan Yesudian and Yoga - An open-ended story in three parts
Part 1
wellhousecircle.substack.com
I've written a piece about the connections of yoga & Feldenkrais - if you're interested please read & consider subscribing to my Substack. This topic is very much open for exploration. I'd love to hear your thoughts. wellhousecircle.substack.com/p/moshe-feld...
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Jean Valentine, Sanctuary
February 14, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Jean Valentine, Sanctuary
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Mahmoud Darwish T. by Catherine Cobham.
February 7, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Mahmoud Darwish T. by Catherine Cobham.
I love this!
Anticipating the year of the horse 🐎
February 13, 2026 at 10:07 AM
I love this!
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The files, found on a bygone piece of audio recording equipment, may give scientists new evidence about how humans have changed the ocean.
Oldest known whale song recordings discovered in Cape Cod archives
The files, found on a bygone piece of audio recording equipment, may give scientists new evidence about how humans have changed the ocean.
www.wbur.org
February 11, 2026 at 6:49 PM
The files, found on a bygone piece of audio recording equipment, may give scientists new evidence about how humans have changed the ocean.
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February 12, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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#rachelcusktogether
Reminded of the ending of Kudos when I went to this exhibition by Marguerite Homer at Clare Hall, Cambridge - 'All of your demons will wither away'. Paintings of the Pacific. 1 Into the light 2 Sit down next to me 3 Follow me now 4 Soleil pour over me
Reminded of the ending of Kudos when I went to this exhibition by Marguerite Homer at Clare Hall, Cambridge - 'All of your demons will wither away'. Paintings of the Pacific. 1 Into the light 2 Sit down next to me 3 Follow me now 4 Soleil pour over me
February 4, 2026 at 9:51 PM
#rachelcusktogether
Reminded of the ending of Kudos when I went to this exhibition by Marguerite Homer at Clare Hall, Cambridge - 'All of your demons will wither away'. Paintings of the Pacific. 1 Into the light 2 Sit down next to me 3 Follow me now 4 Soleil pour over me
Reminded of the ending of Kudos when I went to this exhibition by Marguerite Homer at Clare Hall, Cambridge - 'All of your demons will wither away'. Paintings of the Pacific. 1 Into the light 2 Sit down next to me 3 Follow me now 4 Soleil pour over me
#rachelcusktogether
That man on the beach at the end could be the neighbour from Outline. Not sure what to make of the ending but it's not warm and fuzzy for sure.
Now I've gotta read more about Rachel Cusk. Somehow I don't feel I'd like her.
That man on the beach at the end could be the neighbour from Outline. Not sure what to make of the ending but it's not warm and fuzzy for sure.
Now I've gotta read more about Rachel Cusk. Somehow I don't feel I'd like her.
February 1, 2026 at 2:51 PM
#rachelcusktogether
That man on the beach at the end could be the neighbour from Outline. Not sure what to make of the ending but it's not warm and fuzzy for sure.
Now I've gotta read more about Rachel Cusk. Somehow I don't feel I'd like her.
That man on the beach at the end could be the neighbour from Outline. Not sure what to make of the ending but it's not warm and fuzzy for sure.
Now I've gotta read more about Rachel Cusk. Somehow I don't feel I'd like her.
#rachelcusktogether
'You can't tell your story to everybody....Maybe you can only tell it to one person.'
All the characters in the Outline trilogy pour out their stories to everyone it would seem. Does Faye tell hers to anyone?
'You can't tell your story to everybody....Maybe you can only tell it to one person.'
All the characters in the Outline trilogy pour out their stories to everyone it would seem. Does Faye tell hers to anyone?
February 1, 2026 at 2:50 PM
#rachelcusktogether
'You can't tell your story to everybody....Maybe you can only tell it to one person.'
All the characters in the Outline trilogy pour out their stories to everyone it would seem. Does Faye tell hers to anyone?
'You can't tell your story to everybody....Maybe you can only tell it to one person.'
All the characters in the Outline trilogy pour out their stories to everyone it would seem. Does Faye tell hers to anyone?
Gentileschi, 'Salome with the head of John the Baptist'
#rachelcusktogether
'My older son had once made a copy of that painting...except that he had left out all the detail...without those details...the painting became a study not of murderousness but of the complexity of love.'
Not convinced!
#rachelcusktogether
'My older son had once made a copy of that painting...except that he had left out all the detail...without those details...the painting became a study not of murderousness but of the complexity of love.'
Not convinced!
February 1, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Gentileschi, 'Salome with the head of John the Baptist'
#rachelcusktogether
'My older son had once made a copy of that painting...except that he had left out all the detail...without those details...the painting became a study not of murderousness but of the complexity of love.'
Not convinced!
#rachelcusktogether
'My older son had once made a copy of that painting...except that he had left out all the detail...without those details...the painting became a study not of murderousness but of the complexity of love.'
Not convinced!
#rachelcusktogether
Felicia's story: 'I had not...found freedom by leaving him: in fact what I had done was forfeit all my rights...there is a passage in one of your books [Fay's]...where you describe enduring something similar...you...legitimised...by writing...I by' translating
Felicia's story: 'I had not...found freedom by leaving him: in fact what I had done was forfeit all my rights...there is a passage in one of your books [Fay's]...where you describe enduring something similar...you...legitimised...by writing...I by' translating
February 1, 2026 at 2:36 PM
#rachelcusktogether
Felicia's story: 'I had not...found freedom by leaving him: in fact what I had done was forfeit all my rights...there is a passage in one of your books [Fay's]...where you describe enduring something similar...you...legitimised...by writing...I by' translating
Felicia's story: 'I had not...found freedom by leaving him: in fact what I had done was forfeit all my rights...there is a passage in one of your books [Fay's]...where you describe enduring something similar...you...legitimised...by writing...I by' translating
#rachelcusktogether
I don't know why but this picture by Kate Lycett makes me think of the urban landscapes in some of the Outline trilogy. Maybe it's just me, I think it's all the angles and curves...
I don't know why but this picture by Kate Lycett makes me think of the urban landscapes in some of the Outline trilogy. Maybe it's just me, I think it's all the angles and curves...
February 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM
#rachelcusktogether
I don't know why but this picture by Kate Lycett makes me think of the urban landscapes in some of the Outline trilogy. Maybe it's just me, I think it's all the angles and curves...
I don't know why but this picture by Kate Lycett makes me think of the urban landscapes in some of the Outline trilogy. Maybe it's just me, I think it's all the angles and curves...
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It strikes me, looking at events in the US, that it's not the *ideal* time to end the study of sociology.
More than 100 staff are set to lose their jobs at London Metropolitan University.
"The whole mentoring service is being scrapped, the sociology department is being decimated."
#UKHE #HigherEd #AcademicSky
"The whole mentoring service is being scrapped, the sociology department is being decimated."
#UKHE #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Anger at uni plan to lay off lecturers
London Metropolitan University has told professors, lecturers and academic mentors they could be made redundant
www.islingtontribune.co.uk
January 31, 2026 at 8:06 AM
It strikes me, looking at events in the US, that it's not the *ideal* time to end the study of sociology.
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These striking objects are Chinese brush rests, which were often made in the shape of a five-peak mountain range.
When scholars wrote with a brush and ink, this practical and ornamental desk accessory would serve as a place to rest the brush during a pause in their writing.
🖌️EAX.1360
🖌️EAX.1813
When scholars wrote with a brush and ink, this practical and ornamental desk accessory would serve as a place to rest the brush during a pause in their writing.
🖌️EAX.1360
🖌️EAX.1813
January 31, 2026 at 8:00 AM
These striking objects are Chinese brush rests, which were often made in the shape of a five-peak mountain range.
When scholars wrote with a brush and ink, this practical and ornamental desk accessory would serve as a place to rest the brush during a pause in their writing.
🖌️EAX.1360
🖌️EAX.1813
When scholars wrote with a brush and ink, this practical and ornamental desk accessory would serve as a place to rest the brush during a pause in their writing.
🖌️EAX.1360
🖌️EAX.1813
#rachelcusktogether
The destroyed church that has been left as it is is like an Outline remaining after the trauma - kind of like Fay.
'lights had been installed which illuminated the empty spaces...making you see more in the empty space than you would have seen had it been filled with a statue.'
The destroyed church that has been left as it is is like an Outline remaining after the trauma - kind of like Fay.
'lights had been installed which illuminated the empty spaces...making you see more in the empty space than you would have seen had it been filled with a statue.'
January 30, 2026 at 4:22 PM
#rachelcusktogether
The destroyed church that has been left as it is is like an Outline remaining after the trauma - kind of like Fay.
'lights had been installed which illuminated the empty spaces...making you see more in the empty space than you would have seen had it been filled with a statue.'
The destroyed church that has been left as it is is like an Outline remaining after the trauma - kind of like Fay.
'lights had been installed which illuminated the empty spaces...making you see more in the empty space than you would have seen had it been filled with a statue.'
#rachelcusktogether
'But you...don't belong anywhere, and so you are free to go wherever you choose.'
Interesting relationship of freedom and belonging.
'But you...don't belong anywhere, and so you are free to go wherever you choose.'
Interesting relationship of freedom and belonging.
January 29, 2026 at 11:04 PM
#rachelcusktogether
'But you...don't belong anywhere, and so you are free to go wherever you choose.'
Interesting relationship of freedom and belonging.
'But you...don't belong anywhere, and so you are free to go wherever you choose.'
Interesting relationship of freedom and belonging.
#rachelcusktogether
'it is with the feeling of displacement itself that the true intimacy develops & that constitutes, as it were, the story'
The story of Outline, Transit, Kudos.
'the owner of such a compass puts all his faith in it...goes where it tells him...despite appearances...'
p 203 the key
'it is with the feeling of displacement itself that the true intimacy develops & that constitutes, as it were, the story'
The story of Outline, Transit, Kudos.
'the owner of such a compass puts all his faith in it...goes where it tells him...despite appearances...'
p 203 the key
January 29, 2026 at 11:02 PM
#rachelcusktogether
'it is with the feeling of displacement itself that the true intimacy develops & that constitutes, as it were, the story'
The story of Outline, Transit, Kudos.
'the owner of such a compass puts all his faith in it...goes where it tells him...despite appearances...'
p 203 the key
'it is with the feeling of displacement itself that the true intimacy develops & that constitutes, as it were, the story'
The story of Outline, Transit, Kudos.
'the owner of such a compass puts all his faith in it...goes where it tells him...despite appearances...'
p 203 the key
#rachelcusktogether
'a word...hard to translate but that could be summed up as a feeling of homesickness even when you were at home'
'solastalgia...coined by Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht'...1/2
'a word...hard to translate but that could be summed up as a feeling of homesickness even when you were at home'
'solastalgia...coined by Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht'...1/2
January 29, 2026 at 11:00 PM
#rachelcusktogether
'a word...hard to translate but that could be summed up as a feeling of homesickness even when you were at home'
'solastalgia...coined by Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht'...1/2
'a word...hard to translate but that could be summed up as a feeling of homesickness even when you were at home'
'solastalgia...coined by Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht'...1/2
#rachelcusktogether
Fay, the narrator, finally speaks...about 'the true nature of freedom. [Her son] understood that he had given some of his freedom away, through a desire to avoid or alleviate his own suffering'. Interesting to explore the relationship of freedom & suffering.
Fay, the narrator, finally speaks...about 'the true nature of freedom. [Her son] understood that he had given some of his freedom away, through a desire to avoid or alleviate his own suffering'. Interesting to explore the relationship of freedom & suffering.
January 29, 2026 at 10:54 PM
#rachelcusktogether
Fay, the narrator, finally speaks...about 'the true nature of freedom. [Her son] understood that he had given some of his freedom away, through a desire to avoid or alleviate his own suffering'. Interesting to explore the relationship of freedom & suffering.
Fay, the narrator, finally speaks...about 'the true nature of freedom. [Her son] understood that he had given some of his freedom away, through a desire to avoid or alleviate his own suffering'. Interesting to explore the relationship of freedom & suffering.
#rachelcusktogether
'Joan Eardley hid herself away on a tiny island off the coast of Scotland...she documented the savageries of nature...standing on the edge of some unspeakable violence or turbulence, as though she were trying to locate the edge of the world...also in Glasgow' 'Glasgow Close' +2
'Joan Eardley hid herself away on a tiny island off the coast of Scotland...she documented the savageries of nature...standing on the edge of some unspeakable violence or turbulence, as though she were trying to locate the edge of the world...also in Glasgow' 'Glasgow Close' +2
January 27, 2026 at 11:18 PM
#rachelcusktogether
'Joan Eardley hid herself away on a tiny island off the coast of Scotland...she documented the savageries of nature...standing on the edge of some unspeakable violence or turbulence, as though she were trying to locate the edge of the world...also in Glasgow' 'Glasgow Close' +2
'Joan Eardley hid herself away on a tiny island off the coast of Scotland...she documented the savageries of nature...standing on the edge of some unspeakable violence or turbulence, as though she were trying to locate the edge of the world...also in Glasgow' 'Glasgow Close' +2
#rachelcusktogether
Louise Bourgeois 'portrays herself as a spider' p190 Also Femme Maison, where Bourgeois 'explores the relationship of a woman & the home....women's heads have been replaced with houses, isolating their bodies from the outside world and keeping their minds domestic.' [Wikipedia]
Louise Bourgeois 'portrays herself as a spider' p190 Also Femme Maison, where Bourgeois 'explores the relationship of a woman & the home....women's heads have been replaced with houses, isolating their bodies from the outside world and keeping their minds domestic.' [Wikipedia]
January 27, 2026 at 11:11 PM
#rachelcusktogether
Louise Bourgeois 'portrays herself as a spider' p190 Also Femme Maison, where Bourgeois 'explores the relationship of a woman & the home....women's heads have been replaced with houses, isolating their bodies from the outside world and keeping their minds domestic.' [Wikipedia]
Louise Bourgeois 'portrays herself as a spider' p190 Also Femme Maison, where Bourgeois 'explores the relationship of a woman & the home....women's heads have been replaced with houses, isolating their bodies from the outside world and keeping their minds domestic.' [Wikipedia]
#rachelcusktogether
Topsy turvy world
Another interviewer who does all theh talking: 'he seemed to take such a long time to get round to asking a question & when he did, discovered that he himself had the best answer for it'...
'the grandmothers...listen to him for hours on end'
Topsy turvy world
Another interviewer who does all theh talking: 'he seemed to take such a long time to get round to asking a question & when he did, discovered that he himself had the best answer for it'...
'the grandmothers...listen to him for hours on end'
January 27, 2026 at 11:06 PM
#rachelcusktogether
Topsy turvy world
Another interviewer who does all theh talking: 'he seemed to take such a long time to get round to asking a question & when he did, discovered that he himself had the best answer for it'...
'the grandmothers...listen to him for hours on end'
Topsy turvy world
Another interviewer who does all theh talking: 'he seemed to take such a long time to get round to asking a question & when he did, discovered that he himself had the best answer for it'...
'the grandmothers...listen to him for hours on end'
#rachelcusktogether
'he had deduced from my work that if I had an imagination I had the sense to keep it well concealed'
That's not exactly damning with faint praise, but it's something equally insulting,.
'he had deduced from my work that if I had an imagination I had the sense to keep it well concealed'
That's not exactly damning with faint praise, but it's something equally insulting,.
January 27, 2026 at 11:02 PM
#rachelcusktogether
'he had deduced from my work that if I had an imagination I had the sense to keep it well concealed'
That's not exactly damning with faint praise, but it's something equally insulting,.
'he had deduced from my work that if I had an imagination I had the sense to keep it well concealed'
That's not exactly damning with faint praise, but it's something equally insulting,.
#rachelcusktogether
'Could a spiritual value be attached to the mirror itself, so that by passing dispassionately through evil it proved its own virtue, its own incorruptibility?'
Is Fay such a mirror?
'Could a spiritual value be attached to the mirror itself, so that by passing dispassionately through evil it proved its own virtue, its own incorruptibility?'
Is Fay such a mirror?
January 25, 2026 at 11:07 AM
#rachelcusktogether
'Could a spiritual value be attached to the mirror itself, so that by passing dispassionately through evil it proved its own virtue, its own incorruptibility?'
Is Fay such a mirror?
'Could a spiritual value be attached to the mirror itself, so that by passing dispassionately through evil it proved its own virtue, its own incorruptibility?'
Is Fay such a mirror?
#rachelcusktogether
'The question of whether I believed there was a third kind of honesty, beyond that of the person who leaves &...the person who stays; an honesty to which no moral bias could be ascribed...that can describe evil as dispassionately as virtue'
This is Cusk's project.
'The question of whether I believed there was a third kind of honesty, beyond that of the person who leaves &...the person who stays; an honesty to which no moral bias could be ascribed...that can describe evil as dispassionately as virtue'
This is Cusk's project.
January 25, 2026 at 11:05 AM
#rachelcusktogether
'The question of whether I believed there was a third kind of honesty, beyond that of the person who leaves &...the person who stays; an honesty to which no moral bias could be ascribed...that can describe evil as dispassionately as virtue'
This is Cusk's project.
'The question of whether I believed there was a third kind of honesty, beyond that of the person who leaves &...the person who stays; an honesty to which no moral bias could be ascribed...that can describe evil as dispassionately as virtue'
This is Cusk's project.
#rachelcusktogether
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...
I haven't read Bernhard, but a comparison beckons - if any others want to pursue the connections!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...
I haven't read Bernhard, but a comparison beckons - if any others want to pursue the connections!
January 25, 2026 at 10:58 AM
#rachelcusktogether
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...
I haven't read Bernhard, but a comparison beckons - if any others want to pursue the connections!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...
I haven't read Bernhard, but a comparison beckons - if any others want to pursue the connections!