Selectively Juggling

You’re writing your autobiography. Where do I begin to tell my story? Where does anyone ever begin to tell their stories? Do I esoterically travel back through the recesses of my innermost memories and dark corridors of my mind, peeling back the veil, the thin layers of protection and memory, peering deep into my childhood…

What experiences in life helped you grow the most? Unequivocally it would have to be the moments that have challenged me and stretched me. The poignant moments that have seen me dive deep past the somewhat jagged edges of my ‘comfort zone’. The moments of deepest loss, grief and trauma have eventually led to me…

Do you believe in fate/destiny? I believe in serendipity, intuition, personal choices, human agency, chance/probability and hard work. I don’t believe in fate and destiny per se, as that’s too predetermined and fatalistic. What purpose is freewill, choice, agency and hard work if things have already been set in stone? Plus, by placing so much…

Do you enjoy your job? Yes, I absolutely love my job. I have real autonomy, I’m challenged intellectually and emotionally (which is a really good thing). In fact my job is quite bespoke, and as such I can get out of it as much as I put in. I have a wonderfully supportive manager, who…

Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to. I see life as a collection of temporal ‘ present moments’ somewhat chaotically strewn together. It’s far less a matter of discrete concrete life phases shifting into the next. Therefore my current self is simply the heady mix of inner child, teen and…

If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why? It can sometimes take me an hour to finally decide on a movie or series (scrolling through Netflix, Stan, AppleTV etc) Something piques my interest and I click on ‘more info’ … yeah nah, not what I wanted, needed or…

Describe the most ambitious DIY project you’ve ever taken on. Okay, here’s me without any previous upholstery skills “I’m going to upholster 8, yes 8 dinning chairs. More importantly I’m going to go for the bohemian look, and therefore create four sets of matching chairs, using different textures, patterns and fabrics”. I also bought a…

If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why? Why? Simply because words are simply words, it’s the energy and meaning we imbue them with, that gives them power and agency. Yes, there have been racist hate-filled and hateful words slung at people throughout history. Yet, what is…

What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months? I don’t have a crystal ball, nor the ability to peer into the foreseeable future. If the question had been in relation to “what I EXPECT to face” as opposed to “will face”, I’ve no doubt I could let my imagination and…