False widows, butterflies and the annual potato bounty! A few personal highlights from August 2024, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
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All that matters
Every step that you have ever taken has brought you to this exact moment. You cannot change what went before. But you can change what happens next. You can create the future.
eX-Twitter blues?
Leaving X/Twitter? If you’re making the break, take time to mourn the X/Twitter you knew and loved, then move on. Time for something new, something better.
Love against division
Our commitment to equality, to diversity and inclusion, should and must be endlessly reaffirmed. Now and always.
Never give 100%?
Is constantly giving our all – always seeing 100% as the bare minimum – the wisest or most sustainable approach to life and to work?
MJCarty snapshots July 2024
Of bees, potatoes and tarot cards. A few personal highlights from July 2024, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
Listen
Listening can be the most valuable thing you might ever do. Listening can make all the difference.
Like university finals forever
When stress gets out of hand, it can feel as if the stressful times will never end. How do you deal with stress?
A Hard Day’s Night at 60
The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night is an eternally fresh delight of a film – and it is also somehow sixty years old today.
MJCarty snapshots June 2024
WWII flyovers, chillin’ foxes and the sneaky arrival of summer. A few personal highlights from June 2024, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
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