Working on Procrastination macanders.substack.com/p/procrastin...

For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy – that is what is hard to bear.” — Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, May 1888

The art of the interview. Lean in and listen, your story may depend on it! macanders.substack.com/p/how-to-int...

Water Lilies - 1916/1919 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11198

"Your best men die in alleys under a sheet of paper while your worst men get statues in parks for pigeons to shit upon for centuries."- Charles Bukowski

The right's callous "overdiagnosis" bandwagon is rolling. Wes Streeting should not be on it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Josef Mánes, The Drowned. Oil on canvas, 1867.

For in this love he now felt there was compassion: without which love is untempered, and is not whole, and does not last.

Egon Schiele, Harbour of Trieste, 1907. Oil on board.

#JosephConrad "I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work,— the chance to find yourself." - Joseph Conrad

‘Shinrin Yoku’ is a Japanese noun which means, ‘A visit to a forest for relaxation’. It emerged in the 80’s as a reaction to urbanization and disconnection. I vote we add it to English and make it a thing.

“Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.” Happy 175th birthday Robert Louis Stevenson

New short story. A gripping tale of the far future - Leviathan. A flying ship ventures on a secret voyage beyond the mapped edges of New Berlin. Gentleman adventurer Hanna and helmsman Krebb fight for their lives in a quest that could save-or doom—humanity. mybook.to/NewBerlin1Le...

Earlier. 6000 years ago old, the Coldrum Stones lie near the Pilgrims’ Way. In his ‘Antiquities of Cornwall’, published in 1754, William Borlas stated that the name ‘Coldrum’ came from the Cornish word ‘Galdrum’ meaning ‘a place of enchantment.’ Someone (not me) left a small satsuma as an offering.

"Rise of Krampus" is out! 1862. It’s after visiting hours at the Cape Misfortune Asylum - but a visitor has turned up nonetheless. Is he the terrifying Krampus of local folklore - or a madman escaped from the isolation ward? Either way, his story is beyond belief! mybook.to/RiseofKrampus

Everyday is a the beginning of a new dream in a way. We go to sleep dreaming of tomorrow and wake up and dare to dream. But when you have ME/CFS, so often day after day is a heartbreaking betrayal of those dreams by our bodies and minds and by the entire world around us. #MECFS #LongCovid

Case report by @sunsopeningband.bsky.social et al. @workwellfoundation.bsky.social @wearlumia.bsky.social This case report explored whether reduced blood flow to the head contributes to postexertional malaise (PEM) in myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). Using a new in-ear device, researchers measured

@kafkaboots.bsky.social This 1850 daguerreotype made me think of you for some reason.

A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. -Andrei Tarkovsky

Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing.

Bowie at the Neue Wache (Unter den Linden) when it was in East Berlin.

Reading The Poems of Seamus Heaney, lovingly edited by my old tutor Bernard O’Donoghue. A huge book.

'The coupling of boredom and intensity is constitutive of crip time, which is warped time' The first Adjacencies, in which two works are considered in relation to one another: Daisy Lafarge on illness, Netflix show Outlast & Alphonse Daudet's In the Land of Pain www.draughtjournal.com/article/flare

Interesting, elegant study suggesting a possible reason #longCovid is more common among women. For Covid infected mice, prolonged cognitive problems (measured e.g. by maze tests) – a 'proxy' for long Covid- were more common among females. As was a stronger immune response. Relevant to ME/CFS?

New on my Substack. "My Local Writer". The woman who introduced the terms “poltergeist” and “doppelgänger” into English usage. open.substack.com/pub/macander...

A discussion about friendship and ME meglobalchronicle.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/a... #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME 1/

New on my Substack. Can Writers Escape Artificial Intelligence? open.substack.com/pub/macander...

What we cannot say, we must above all not keep silent about, but write. Jacques Derrida d. October 9, 2004

Finding the Telling Detail open.substack.com/pub/macander...

I’ve watched so many horror films recently that they all blurring into one. A woman moves into a rural setting and is spooked by a series of increasingly upsetting possibly supernatural events.

On my Substack - Deadlines can set you free substack.com/home/post/p-...

Mount Aetna from Taormina, Thomas Cole, 1843.

On my Substack: Edgar Allan Poe and the Business of Writing substack.com/home/post/p-...

Night cruise in the Mediterranean, Emil Orlik, early 20th c.

New on my Substack - The Horror of Psychological Horror open.substack.com/pub/macander...

“So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.” -Vincent Van Gogh

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds

Late Summer vibe check.

And mage and sailor are not so far apart; both work with the powers of sky and sea, and bend great winds to the uses of their hands, bringing near what was remote.

Pebble art by my sister-in-law.

#MEcfs #SevereME

Transfiguration, 6th century, Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna. According to popular belief, the feast of the Transfiguration (August 6) is the last day to bathe in rivers, because it marks the change of seasons. Nature itself is 'transfigured'. Indeed: the light of summer ends around August 6.

Earlier. Six thousand years old, the Coldrum Stones in Kent. In his ‘Antiquities of Cornwall’ book published in 1754, William Borlas stated that the name ‘Coldrum’ came from the Cornish word ‘Galdrum’ meaning ‘a place of enchantment.’

Trump sent officials to see Ghislaine Maxwell quicker than he sent FEMA to Texas

Here’s my #TransPride

"All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it." -David Bowie