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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 7h

‘Defend joy like a flag
Defend it from Lightening and melancholy
From the fools and the frauds
From rhetoric and ruptured of the heart
From the endemic and the academic’

Mario Benedetti

Sweet dreams

Drift off to Sleep
youtu.be/bJFnrFihjl4?...

Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 7h

Beautiful poem in Spanish with English translation

'Defend Joy'

Rather fitting for an evening talking about the stuff of translation & the translator's mind

www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/04/m...

A Defense of Joy

One of the most important things to have learned in life is that choosing joy in a world rife with reasons for despair is a countercultural act of courage and resistance, choosing it not despite th…

www.themarginalian.org

Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 10h

The sky ablaze tonight

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Reposted by Clare Lavery

Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 19h

Durham here I come!

Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 2d

Penultimate FAIR book tour event this Wednesday in Durham at Collected Books collectedbooks.co.uk/collections/...

Events

Look out for our upcoming events - opportunities to hear writers talk about their work, buy signed copies, and meet fellow readers. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find details of ticketed events ...

collectedbooks.co.uk

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 21h

The struggle with vulnerability is a main barrier to receiving or giving Love
The Walls we raise to keep out danger after violence or disappointment keep us from any challenge to uncomfortable feelings or real love

My morning tea break I sing to WALLS 🎵
youtu.be/rus731mu7xk?...

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 21h

#LanguageMatters in the giving of Love & Care

Where do we learn these lessons?
How does context of Loving matter so much?
What is the relationship between Love & Violence?
Why do Men hurt women or children they claim to Love?

An excellent reflection
#Masculinity
#DVAM
#CulturalContext
#Love

Stephen Burrell @thedailypanda.bsky.social · 1d

How can we as men learn to love & be vulnerable with others, and why is love a transformative social force against violence? Why do we need to decolonise gender? We discuss on the latest episode of #NowandMen with the hugely insightful Prof of Psychology Kopano Ratele! nowandmen.net/episode/kopa...

Episode 58 of the Now and Men podcast with Prof Kopano Ratele

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 2d

Untamed Flora

Romain Veillon
#TuttoUnRestare

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/roma...

Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 2d

Stay in a Greenhouse cage
Or let your growth shatter its walls
You cannot be contained

"nature felt imprisoned & sought to break free from its captor, unleashing its unstoppable force ..vegetation that has become one with the bars of its cage.”
Romain Veillon
#TuttoUnRestare

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 2d

A Harvest moon
Illuminates
All Truths
hidden
Harvest joy
from the scars
that silence caused

#TuttoUnRestare

raccogliere gioia dalle cicatrici che il silenzio ha causato

Gravity
youtu.be/9ULXgJ18xuY?...

Evelyn De Morgan ‘Night & Sleep’ detail 1878
Galileo Moons

Reposted by Clare Lavery

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

The one change that worked: I was lost in the infinite scroll – until a small ritual renewed my love of reading

My ability to concentrate diminished as I spent more time on my phone. So I started to log and learn every new word I came across, and felt my brain begin to flex

www.theguardian.com

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 2d

#TuttoUnRestare

What stays of us is the Journey
Our perseverance through
And That is our Legacy
And nobody can replicate it
Or steal it
We are all on unique paths

Vincent Van Gogh Visits the Gallery
youtu.be/ubTJI_UphPk?...

The Mulberry Tree in Autumn 1889- Vincent Van Gogh

Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 2d

"Sono sempre colpita da quanto possa essere sottile il confine tra una catastrofe e il resto del mondo."

“I'm always struck by how fine the line between catastrophe and the rest of the world can be.”

Lucy Easthope
@lucygobag.bsky.social

@unicef.org

e #TuttoUnRestare #EducationCannotWait

Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 2d

“It is the text messages sent on the morning... The conversations cut short in the middle of an argument or the middle of a new love affair or even just asking 'What's for tea?' The end of a thread of anger or lust, hope or dejection. Love and life interrupted forever.”

― Lucy Easthope

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 2d

“..it was only afterwards that this period was framed neatly and bookended with a beginning and an end. At the time, you just kept putting one foot in front of the other, each time that Dawn broke”

Lucy Easthope #TuttoUnRestare

Cosa rimane dopo la tragedia?

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 2d

“Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days? Flare up like flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

#TuttoUnRestare Lean in

Bocelli
youtu.be/Z863C4doOH8?...

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 3d

Coming back from an 8 mile hike across bridle paths carpeted in acorns
Humming country tunes
The peace of an Autumn Sunday
Though the World is presenting troubled times
We have to measure our own responses
Seek balance & detach

The Plumb Line

youtu.be/TzcHxZmpaUc?...

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 3d

Thinking of my apple scrumping as I chop one for my porridge
Yesterday in a decidedly blustery orchard
Sorting through the Apples blown under trees
Some rotten to the core
Some bruised but salvageable
Some misshapen but still delicious
Like hearts 🍎🍏

www.linkedin.com/posts/clare-...

Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 4d

#FeriteERifioriture ⁦
⁩

From your wounds your creativity is birthed

Dalle ferite nasce la creativita

This is my treasured drawing by a Milanese artist Gigi Pedroli
“La Cuccagna”

It Represents a village rich with peace & gifts
A symbol of creative fertility

Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 4d

What looks like a single flower
May have deep & extensive roots

Your Perception is yours to interrogate

#FeriteERifioriture #VentagliDiParole

Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 4d

Book details

www.chiselbury.co.uk/bookstore/p/...

The Power of Perception: When reality loses the battle by Dr Orhan Dragaš (published 31 October 2025) — Chiselbury Publishing

‘For all those who remain convinced of the significance of truth and will not surrender their right to think about it, this book is an outstanding guide, companion and inspira...

www.chiselbury.co.uk

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 4d

#DomesticViolenceAwareness
#DVAM

This month we need to remove the ‘Domestic’ from Violence because #LanguageMatters

Domestic has connotations of trivial
Domestic simplifies #CoerciveControl
Domestic over-generalises very complex cases of serious offences

www.linkedin.com/posts/clare-...

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 5d

#MiaMadreTerra

We begin building a home Land
from the 1st moment of play
If we build it inside we will be strong they say

Where is my Land?
Mother pray for me
Now I have crossed the Sea 🙏

La Mia Terra

youtu.be/FFSDKDyr1fA?...

Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 5d

Madre terra. Earth Mother
Terra Madre Mother Earth

Terra Madre -Homeland
Our Language & Identity are entwined in notion of Home.
Take my tongue, you take my Home.
Take my home, you cut my tongue

Time for a homeland dance
#MiaMadreTerra
@VentagliP

youtu.be/W_VxeUjlpV0?...

Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 5d

#CoerciveControl is a mind game theft

Your Favourite Sky?
Don’t tell them your favourite skies
‘These are a few of my favourite things’ you sing 🎶 🎶
You give them too much of YOU
To Shame
Unsuspecting in your Trust
Their mask
then steals your Sky

youtu.be/vUMvjs0e6Ic?...

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Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · 5d

The meeting of souls is a meeting of energies
Some will darken our skies
Our Northern Skies of promise
It's our job alone to show
Discernment
Do not allow the darkness of Others
toxic mind games
suffocate your Light 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

Thank God it's Friday guys