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Kat's Tales Storytelling

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Phone: +61 408 841 566

Address: PO Box 3540 5000 Adelaide, SA, Australia

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25.01.2022 Hello everybody from the storeroom that will eventually become the new Kat’s Tales studio. Moving has been massive, with involving two households consolidating into one. We’ll get there. The kitties and I hope you’re doing well xx #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #adventure #moving #unpacking #home #family #cats #newbeginnings #blessthismess

25.01.2022 Hello everybody. How’s this for a nesting doll of memories: this is a screenshot of my fb Story from yesterday, which is a photo of my laptop screen from 2016 I took while watching myself interviewed for the first time since the 2011 premiere of a documentary I contributed to in 2010. I haven’t talked much about this period of my life. Like a rose bush, growth sometimes requires brutal cutting back, and I needed to put distance between it and myself. I’ve made peace with it, ...and understand its significance in my greater story, but I kind of forgot about it in the process. The funny thing is, life and my job occasionally reminds me of it, when I’m called to shelve, retrieve and alphabetise it in our collection. I objectively like the doco, but it still sits strangely with me, seeing my name, likeness and lives events edited for another narrative. It does not lie, but it doesn’t feel like my truth. I am a human and therefore naturally defensive of how others may see me. Reputation is deeply linked to acceptance and survival in our emotional DNA. But as a storyteller, I am acutely aware that each person decides the meaning they’ll take from the story. Shout out to Roland Barthes. The hearer/viewer/reader/consumer has ultimate power of interpretation. They create the story because each has their own beliefs and experiences to filter it through. The ‘Death of the Author’ idea is liberating and a bit scary. It invites freedom from worrying about what others think. So, I’m outing myself as a character in someone else’s story. You can borrow ‘This is Roller Derby’ through the SA OneCard network. Who knows? I may even be the librarian who retrieves your request. Happy reading and happy storymaking xx #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #throwbackthursday #rollerderby #growth #acceptance #selfcompassion

25.01.2022 Hello everybody, and a very merry Christmas from your friendly neighbourhood storytelling lady. I hope it's a peaceful time filled with much goodness, warmth, kindness and compassion, and maybe a bit of silliness and glamour. May you always abide in peace and love xx #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #christmas #christmastree #seasonsgreetings #love #hope #kindness #fun #silly #sillyness #playful #play #playtime #librarianlife #kisses #peace #compassion #goodness #storytelling

22.01.2022 Hello everybody. It’s a bit of a dumb day. Rugged sleep. Pimple on my lip. Feeling lacklustre and sensitive about stupid stuff. This morning’s workout featured the pony, which is one of my favourite all-time moves but couldn’t get into it because I suddenly found myself missing my family. Was thinking of going for a ride to buy a pattern and fabric but I think it’s good day to knuckle down and work on unexciting, important stuff. These sorts of days are as legit as the happy,... lively ones, and I think it’s good to sometimes declare that on social media. Not for sympathy garnering (I don’t want it) but to reconfirm that ordinary daysthe bargain bin days compared to the carefully window-dressed, filter-affected, killing-it existence some avatars seem to miraculously maintainare legit and deserve to be honoured. The days just before New Year can sometimes feel weird and edgy; if you’re also feeling this, it’s okay and you’re allowed x #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #stories #story #storytelling #life #dullday #ordinary #melancholy #gratitude #authenticity #real #realness #legit #newyear #insomnia #badsleep #showup #showupeveryday #selfcompassion

21.01.2022 Hello everybody. Morning 2 of circuit breaker lockdown, and already feeling the effects of being cooped up. So this calls for dressups! Stay well and safe xx #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #covid_19 #lockdown #circuitbreaker #coopedup #dressups #fancy #bindaytoday #fun

20.01.2022 Hello everybody. And hello spirit of inventiveness! It’s been a while. I’ve just a project to remodel a standard corset top into an underbust style. It might also end up yellow. Halfway through the year, I joined Choo La La’s signature burlesque fusion class. Since then, I’ve been in the Halloween and Christmas group shows, plus performed my solo burlesque debut in the Choo & Peak Halloween. The outcomes include a reawakened thirst for performing, a dressup rack suddenly fea...turing three overbust corsets, and a vision of gold fabulousness for Fringe/Cabaret. I still also have champagne tastes on a shoestring budget, as my late Nana would put it, so time to break out the stitch ripper. This is my taste in deconstructionalism these days. More progress shots to come... #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #stories #story #storytelling #storyteller #burlesque #dance #dancing #fabulous #glamourous #sewing #seamstresslife #corset #inventive #creativity #creativelife #beautiful #sexyatanyage #beyourself #showup #fun #play #playful #playfulness #deconstruct #upcycle

20.01.2022 Hello everybody. Feeling icky about your house not being in perfect order at the start of the new week? Then here’s some Monday morning messy realness, with a dash of excitement. I hope it’s a good week for you, in whatever state you find yourself xx #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #messy #realness #authenticity #movinghouse #movingforward

20.01.2022 Hello everybody, and happy #helloday (because hump day sounds depressing). We tried to do a thing involving posing with human paws in cat socks, but some of us decided to look away. 'Never work with humans or kittens', I think I heard her mutter. Anyway, I hope it's a good day in your world (even if there are annoying people who make you do things like pose with their feet) #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #stories #story #storytelling #storyteller #hello #cat #catlife #noveltysocks #cosy #fun #playful #playfulness #humour #goodtobealive #purpose

18.01.2022 Hello everybody. What do you think of vision boards? Do they work for you? I’m not normally a vision boarder (I tend to prefer working with words to get my thoughts out and see what they are) but I admit I really enjoyed this ‘future biography’ task from The Artist’s Way. So much so that it took a whole evening plus an early morning stint. I’m counting it as my Artist Date, because I paired it with listening to ABC Classic and kind of forgot myself, even though the task was a...ll about myself. That’s flow, right there. Some of it is literal, some symbolic. A lot of it is reminding myself of the self I’ve forgotten, and the things I need to practise to look after myself properly. We are all the parent and child of our own hearts. We are ALL responsible for treating ourselves with the kindness and sometimes firmness we need to grow, thrive, heal and discover. For me at the moment, that means focusing more on femininity, braveness and improving my physical self. This time tomorrow, the movers will be packing my things in the truck to take to my new place. This visual future biography will go up on the wall of my studio as a reminder: this is how I want to live; this is who I want to be. Stay warm and well xx #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #theartistsway #artistdate #visionboard #futureself #selfcare #nurture #growth #lifeisgood #home

18.01.2022 Hello everybody. Calling all library peeps: is there an established day in the week or recommended hashtag for sharing library ‘moments’? I’ve been wanting to do this each week and what better research than asking the experts? #lazyresearch #butteringup Anyway, I love these weird moments working in library land. This book came through returns yesterday, having done its 3 days of quarantine. I recognised it from my visit to the Kingscote Library back in March, on day 1 of my ...Kangaroo Island adventure. I recall looking at it and thinking ‘if I were taking a reading holiday, I would borrow this.’ But I had so much riding to do, and I knew my mind would be too tired to be scholarly at the end of the day. I’d noted its existence and moved on. Turns out its destiny was to visit me a few months later up in Adelaide. Once again we regarded each other, as two strangers who meet for a moment but not quite. Then I tucked it into the Country transit tub for its return journey to Kingscote. It was a small pleasure, and pretty cool for a library nerd. I hope it’s a good day for you, with many moments of small pleasures. #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #librarylife #smallpleasures #adventure #nostalgia #books #kangarooisland #kingscote

17.01.2022 Hello everybody. Have you ever done The Artist’s Way? It’s a self-directed course in unblocking your creativity, with an emphasis on journaling and taking gentle steps to becoming more playful and forgiving. I first came across it 20 years ago, and recently bought another copy to replace my well-lent original. I can’t recall who I finally gave it to, but I now wish I’d made a book plate for all those who journey through it to record their names. Creativity is, after all, some...thing that connects us all, as creations ourselves. I’m on Week 2 Day 5 of the 13-week course. It’s been the perfect thing for my current sleep pattern. I’ve been waking up around 3am of average, and going to bed around 9.30pm. The day begins with writing three pages of whatever streams down my arm from my mind and out of my pen. It’s a great way of clearing both guff and big ideas so you can start the day afresh and open to the creativity in ordinary moments. This ribbon folding is the first go at putting into practice techniques from a beautiful book* I bought years ago. I’ve looked at it over the years, but it’s come into its own as part of an Imaginary Lives exercise. This is me dipping into my fantasy camp costumer. More later. This course is also about me learning to get out of my own way and instead enjoy sharing my weird, creative self to the world. Stay well and weird everyone. I love the company xx *’Fabric manipulation: 150 creative sewing techniques’ by Ruth Singer #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #creativity #creativeprocess #creativelife #theartistsway #sleeplessness #craftporn #playful #playfulness #growth

16.01.2022 Hello everybody. Little Blackie wanted her post, too. There are gossippy burbs outside. She don’t like that kind of behaviour. #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #littleblackie #cats #birds #playfulness

15.01.2022 Hello everybody. Do you remember taking holidays away? This is me back in March outside the iconic, historic Dolls House in Kingscote, Kangaroo Island. It was the postmaster’s residence back in the day, now an Airbnb. The week that #covid_19 flipped from curiosity to crisis in Australia, I was having a massive adventure. Previously, I’d only traveled as far as Hahndorf (20km), but this was a 600km+ round trip of solo riding on secluded country roads (unsealed and bitumen) an...d busy highways with impatient motorists and freight trucks that stop for no one. I had very little knowledge of motorcycle mechanics but packed a huge load of faith in myself. And as I rode deeper into The Island, each laconic index finger wave from the locals stocked up my faith in humanity. Kangaroo Island is a beautiful place that is experiencing a very tough time indeed. When I visited, they were still reeling economically, psychologically and socially from summer’s bushfires. Businesses were hanging by their fingernails, and so many people expressed sincere gratitude for each visitor who’d participated in the #bookthemout tourist campaign. The idea that a pandemic was currently shutting down the country was an unimaginable blow. But like the new growth shooting out and covering the charred bushland, life has a way of holding on and reemerging. Kangaroo Island, hang in there. You have not been forgotten and you will be revisited. When restrictions lift, please consider visiting KI if you’re in a position to do so. #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #throwbackthursday #adventure #kangarooisland #covid_19 #hope #resilience #survival #community #motorcycle

15.01.2022 Hello everybody. How are you with deliberately doing a slapdash job when you know you’ll have to appreciate the results every day? It can be a tricky thing to tackle proudly. I’ve just finished Week 3 of The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron’s course in unblocking and renewing the creative self. Each week involves an ‘artist date’, where you dedicate time in solitude to engage in something beyond your normal mode of being, especially if it’s fun, playful, pleasurable or challenging.... I’m sharing with you the product of my first date: my course workbook cover. It’s a study in perfect imperfection. Assorted craft paper; randomly glued-on sequins and confetti; stuff from a sticker sheet that I’d saved for almost 20 years out of nostalgia I no longer relate; brown wrapping paper not thick enough to stop the exercise book cover from showing. Every time I look at it and think ‘that’s so bad/rough/tasteless’, I give myself an an imaginary high five jump and a back pat, because it takes practice for grownups to earnestly and playfully say ‘good enough’. We spend our early lives learning to be good enough, taking it for granted that one day we‘ll achieve it. Thing is, no one ever seems to steps in to say definitively, ‘you’re good enough now so you can stop reaching’. Many people go to their graves feeling the anguished emptiness of ‘not yet good enough’. We need to be that kindly referee grownup for ourselves. That’s hard because we’re wired for self-protection and threat detection. There are things I dream of doing, which involve being like the playful, earnest, tender little kid I started out being...but I’ve spent my whole life protecting myself just-in-case of ridicule and judgement. And the only way of becoming the adult I want to be is gently re-teaching myself to be playful and imaginative and silly and earnest. Repealing the rules of acceptability. Feeling the fear and doing it anyway. Sticking shiny things in random places. That’s a long, wiggly journey to circle back from our conditioning. I’m proud of the roughly-glued feathers. It’s good enough for me. #shareyourstory #creativity #goodenough #theartistsway #artistdate #perfectlyimperfect

15.01.2022 Hello everybody, and happy Friday. Kissy has been busy helping with my Week 5 artist date. His go-to has always been wooden pencils but since it was about drawing experimentation, he gave a whiteboard marker a go. I hope it’s been a good week for you inside yourselves #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #theartistsway #artistdate #drawing #experiment #playfulness #cats

14.01.2022 Hello everybody, I have a #1minutebookshare. It's '100 Aussie things we know and love' by Bunny Banyai. Very funny and informative. I got it through the #librariessa network but reckon I need to buy a copy for my shelf. I hope there's much humour and interesting learning in your day today. #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #stories #story #storytelling #storyteller #funnyreads #humour #playfulness #learning #lifelonglearning #facts #funfacts #australia #aussie #australianbooks #nonfiction #nonfictionbooks #nonfictionreads #nonfictionlover #library #libraries #freestuff #badpronunciation

13.01.2022 Hello everybody. Today’s musings: on perfectionism, discovering fun in letting things fail and ‘baking’ in a slow cooker. Wrong appetit! #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #perfectionism #failure #bakingfail #fun #slowcooker #slowcooking #enneagram1

12.01.2022 Hello everybody. Happy Hello Day (because ‘hump day’ is feels depressing). I am treating my playful self to a walk along the beach. Not the whole beach I’m just on my lunch break. I hope you’re enjoying some sunshine, or at least some sunshiny feels xx #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #playful #beach #mentalhealth #creativity #humour #earnestness #hello

12.01.2022 Hello everybody. How are you doing? Perfect? No? Good! I love everything about this photo. It’s a bad photo. It’s a genuine bit of shonkytonk from dodgy town. The green of the lettering clashes with the knife. There’s a scrunched up plastic bag in the foreground and a shadowy pair of legs in the background. There’s even something vaguely dodgy about how the word ‘adequate’ looks. This study of figs and prosciutto was taken as a joke when the ingredients refused to comply with... the VogueLivingesque intentions. But it ultimately represents honest food prepared with love. It’s a celebration of realness over unattainable standards. I am grateful I live in the real world where colours clash, where you know there are interesting things happening beyond the frame, and where there are loved-ones to celebrate all that with. I hope you have an imperfectly perfect day with tasty food and warm people who appreciate you in your realness xx Ping Natalie Fragnito et al #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #celebration #covid19 #reunion #foodporn #realness

12.01.2022 Hello everybody. Content warning: it involves opening a sealed section. Artist’s Way update: I did an envisioning exercise yesterday around what I would like my future studio to be. I hope you had a good sleep and that your visions for the future are bright. If they’re not, it’s okay there are brighter days on the horizon xx #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #theartistsway #imagination #dreaming #creativity #vision #sealedsection

10.01.2022 Hello everybody. I’ve been ghosting you for the last few months; but I’m still here with stories. As someone pointed out to me, it’s like the world has needed a gap year...and so have I in a way. But this non-activity has become painful, and it’s time to pick up my mini tradition of greeting Wednesday as #helloday (because hump day sounds depressing). I hope you’re doing well xx #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #hello #shy #procrastination #takeaction #community #tribe

09.01.2022 Hello everybody, I have a #1minutebookshare #funfactfriday combo. It's about the superstition of stopping clocks when someone dies. It's not so much of a thing now that we mainly use digital clocks, but there's a long history of connecting clock behaviour with foretelling and acknowledging mortality. Fascinating stuff! I need to take 'Supersition' by Sally Coulthard back to the library, and think I might buy a copy of my own. I've really enjoyed it while maxing out my allowed loan renewals. #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #stories #story #storytelling #storyteller #books #booklife #nonfiction #nonfictionreads #nonfictionbooks #superstition #tradition #spooky #history #fascinatinghumans #humanbehaviour #witchyvibes #librarylife #librariessa

08.01.2022 Hello everybody. I’ve found myself (ie chosen to) read a library book on MBTI personality typing and career choices before meditation, and it’s activated my mind in a different way today. For those playing at home, I’m an ENFP-T (T for Turbulent). I’m great with ideas, but always need to work on the follow-through. I’m naturally chaotic and open-ended, so it’s always a huge compliment if people comment on my organisational skills and general preparedness; it’s taken a lot of ...discipline over the years. I’m always forgetting my big purpose and dreams, and wondering what I’m meant to be doing. The answer is always in the follow-through and knuckling down...which is what this is all about. My (very sensible, details-oriented) partner sometimes jokes about how I’m like a cat with a shiny object; I’ve got to laugh through my indignation at this, because he’s bloody well right. Reading the careers/personality book, I found myself thinking about what it is I should *really* be doing, before it struck me: I’m doing it. I’m creating a storytelling thing. And this is all follow-through. *Facepalm* I’m always forgetting that I’m in the thick of it. Something something forest and trees. I’m not sure if this will make sense, whether it will resonate with your story (apparently ENFPs account for only ~6% of the [American] population) but I intuitively reckon I’m not alone in this. We’re all searching for something, to a greater or lesser degree, wondering if we’re enough or too much, or if we’re adequately living our best lives. (Whatever the hell that means, and who judges that, anyway?) Sometimes it seems, as Headspace has just reminded me, change happens as we journey. What matters is practising a little self-awareness and showing up consistently x #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #stories #storytelling #showup #showupeveryday #purpose #authenticity #vulnerability #pride #personality #mbti #enfp #enfpt #extroversion #intuitive #intuition #feeling #feels #feelings #feel #perception #perceptive #selfawareness #selfcompassion #selfkindness #selfacceptance #stamina #dedication #followthrough #meditation #meditate #headspace

07.01.2022 Hello everybody, and happy first day of winter. How are you with cold weather? My head has been supplied with a brainwarmer as I do my morning reading. It makes me feel nostalgic for visiting Nana as wearing her tea cosies as fancy hats. Warm thoughts. Take care out there on the roads. It’s going to be wild and woolly with a chance of hail xx #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #winter #memories #nostalgia #teacosies

06.01.2022 Hello everybody, and welcome to my shonkytonk dance studio. I’m learning to love the feeling of failing FTW. #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #learning #learningtodance #learningtofail #failure #ftw #reformedperfectionist

06.01.2022 Hello everybody. Are you cosy tonight? We all are. I’m doing some homework (Week 3 of The Artist’s Way) and being kept company by Kissy and Little Blackie. Soundtrack: A Taste of Honey by Paul Desmond. I hope it’s a happy and peaceful moment you’re in. If not, remember this too shall pass xx #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #cosy #cats #artistsway #study #learning #gratitude

05.01.2022 Hello everybody. Time for a carpet picnic. It’s a lovely Autumn day here in Adelaide, so it’s a carpet-of-crunchy-leaves sort of picnic. I hope it’s a sunny day for you xx

05.01.2022 Hello everybody. I have a #bookshare selfie instead of a vid this morning. It's 'The 7 Effect' by Jodie Nevid and Amy Slattery . The subtitle is 'The working mum's guide to quitting her job and building a 6 figure lifestyle business' but really, there's great advice for anyone who wants to make wholistic, practical change in their lives. I reckon I'm a good reflection of #the7effectbook I went to my first 7 Effect life planning workshop back in 2016, a few months after a clus...ter of lifeshocks suddenly wiped away some key identities (marriage, work role, home etc). At a time when I was reeling with the overwhelming amount of freedom and grief, I was very fortunate to have a manager who recognised I'd benefit from it. I really did. It helped me deal with the blank canvas my life had largely become, and connect the wild dreams of possibility with the anchors of practical structure. One of those ideas was to have my own little business. Even though I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, I eventually joined their Lifestyle Business Builder program. I've been in if for a few years now, and I'm definitely the slow kid in the class. I've spent most of that time watching from the sidelines, and it's taken me a few pivots to figure out what speciality area feels right and sustainable. But I'm still here, and things are coming together with studying celebrancy and performance (shoutout to my Choo La La ladies). And I still use their planning tools to remind me how my dreams can be made possible. Thanks Jodie and Amy. #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #stories #story #storytelling #storyteller #book #booklife #growth #healing #dreams #purpose #lifepurpose #planning #strategy #pivot #sidehustle #smallbusiness #lifeshock #surprise #possibility #celebrancy #celebrant #celebrantinthemaking #lifelonglearning #lifelonglearner

05.01.2022 Hello everybody. Some aimless Boxing Day uke noodling. Alone in the house but not lonely; this little tune randomly popped up. No lyrics, so we’ll just call it a vocalise, but I think it wants to be a folk song. I haven’t indulged in any music making for such a long time; to think I used to do it all the time. I hope you’re having a peaceful day x #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #uke #ukulele #noodling #playtime #playful #play #gentleness #peacefulmoments #music #makemusic #composition #smallpleasures #musicroom #sing #singing #singyourlife

04.01.2022 Hello everybody. How is your Sunday going? Today I am practising acceptance and gratitude for my innate weirdness. Being weird can sometimes feel pretty lonely, but the rolling epiphanies I’m experiencing through doing ‘The Artist’s Way’ coursework is recovering my understanding of why it’s a gift. Shoutout to Ngaire Breen, my OG sister-from-another-mother and champion for my weirdness, long before I understood why it was my life’s purpose Be excellent to yourselves and ea...ch other xx #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #storyforsunday #weird #weirdness #weirdo #selflove #compassion #loneliness #belonging

04.01.2022 Hello everybody. Kat’s Tales Central is in the process of relocating. I’m deep in the throes of my place transforming from home to strategic storage zones. I spent my last night in my own bed. Today it gets dismantled, and once relocated, it will become my son’s. There’s a whole story of significance in that. It seems there are stories of significance in everything I touch. Let me share this moment of packing with you: 1. Behind the scenes shot of Steve McQueen on the set of ...The Great Escape. If you flipped it over, you’d see it’s a September 2001 calendar page. On Monday 17th, there are two notes: in my handwriting is ‘Wedding day!’ and below it the joking reminder, written in a different but so familiar hand, ‘Marry Katrina’. When I moved into Freedom Pad post-separation,the idea of throwing it out ripped at my heart more than I could bear. So I stuck the photo side up on my Wall of Inspirado on my cupboard door. It became my reminder to get a motorcycle. (After all, if Steve McQueen could do it...). Over time, I healed and rediscovered the warm feelings those handwritten notes in a new way. I value that greatly. It’s a reminder of the deep, dark nights of the soul, the insane grief and agonising work of reclamation I put in over a long time. For all of you who were there to help me navigate that, I sincerely thank you. You know the gravity in that simple statement. 2. Squishy friends pretending to be packing peanuts: Nana’s White Cat, aka Elva Gladys (because I never asked her what she called it so I named it after her when Poppa gave it to me for my toddler son after she died) aka Effalartis (because Black gave the pronunciation a red-hot go). Also, one of Black’s first and remaining baby friends, Beddy Bear (so named because sleep deprivation doesn’t do cognitive prowess any favours). Kitty report: Little Blackie has been feeling unsettled this morning by the weirdness of moving prep. But she’s feeling better after a big cuddle, first with me then with our friends in this packing box. Stay warm and well. And whatever is happening in your world, remember this too shall pass #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #moving #movingforward #cats

04.01.2022 Hello everybody. The kitty babies have just arrived at our new Kat’s Tales Central (I think I’d like a different name for that). They’re quite shocked by what’s going on, so they don’t really make much of an appearance. I’m sitting in the laundry with them as nurturer. Poor things. But the place is cool for cats, as they will soon discover. It’s been a huge time consolidating two households. I’ll be glad when we’re done with all the trips between apartments for clearing and c...leaning, and all settled. But it’s all an adventure. That phrase is very helpful at times like this. Stay cosy xx #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #cats #moving #adventure #change #newhouse #movingday #home

03.01.2022 Hello everybody. How are you traveling in The Weirdness? I’ve found my wall and had to stop before I hit it good and proper. I gave it a go turning up at work but sometimes you just need to get a colleague to report you as a faulty unit and for the reply to come back as ‘tell her we don’t want to see her back before Tuesday.’ In the most supportive tone, mind you. I’m the daughter of a farmer. This is my explanation for being so terrible at telling when it’s time to plan a ho...liday. Farmers don’t take holidays; they just keep going until they crash. Then they pick themselves up, patch themselves up and start all over again. This has always been my narrative and it needs to change. I tend to take time off when I can no longer cope. I’m so good at putting on a brave face, pouring some sardonic humour onto my crankiness (I’m also not very good at feeling into anger) and singing a happyish tune so that I fool myself as well as others. But I’m getting better at noticing the signs. Today I’ve had to accept in front of others that I’m allowed to struggle in this weird time as much as anyone else. Just because I’m not as acutely impacted as some people doesn’t mean I don’t get to feel the heaviness of the times. This is not how I want it. I want to be Wonder Woman whose still of running through a hailstorm of bullets is on my bedroom Wall if Inspirado but if she were here, I think she would remind me I’m human with feelings and boundaries to be respected. So fine. I’m gunna rest for a bit. But I did make a commitment to #weirdwednesday. So here’s one I prepared earlier. I found this abandoned note in a cleanup, and stuck it on my head as a Portrait of a Broken Stepford Wife. Well played, Katrina of the past, well played. #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #weirdwednesday #selfcare #compassion #patience #covid19 #weirdtimes

02.01.2022 Hello everybody. This is Ted. He is a good bear. He's helping me learn about handfasting and unity candles. This afternoon, he kept me company while I snoozed on the couch feeling unwell. He's very old and has lots of interesting stories. #shareyourstory #letthestoriesout #stories #story #storytelling #storyteller #study #celebrantinthemaking #celebrancy #learning #lifelonglearning #lifelonglearner #ted #teddy #teddybear #real #becomereal