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3 great TED Talks to watch about race, inequality & being antiracist!

21st July 2020 By Jonelle 2 Comments

  I love TED talks, I think they’re a great way to learn about new perspectives and opinions that challenge your own. I was watching a few this afternoon about being antiracist and an ally and thought ahhhhh I should share these but didn’t want to keep sharing links and thought I’d choose my 3…

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Filed Under: Blog, Reflections on Life, Social Issues Tagged With: activism, antiracist, black lives matter, racism

Do you have any issues with belonging she asked me

11th July 2020 By Jonelle 6 Comments

Someone asked me earlier this week, “do you have any issues with belonging?” I thought for a while, before I answered this question. Where do I start? Do I start as a small child, with my parents getting a divorce? Growing up in my grandparents’ house? Feeling like I do not belong. Feeling loved, but…

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Filed Under: Blog, Reflections on Life, Social Issues Tagged With: being coloured, black lives matter, dealing with racisim, racism, where do I belong, where do I fit in, who am I

4 years after my life-changing colostomy reversal surgery

5th May 2020 By Jonelle 6 Comments

Four years ago, I was heading towards my first ever mothers day. Except, I wasn’t at home, I wasn’t with my family. I wasn’t excited. I was in hospital. Alone, in isolation, fighting off a bug that I’d picked up in ICU while recovering from my colostomy reversal surgery. It feels like such a long…

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Filed Under: Blog, Being an Ostomate, Being Resilient, That time I nearly died Tagged With: colostomy surgery, emergency surgery, ostomy, reversal surgery

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It was a cold November day and she had dressed her It was a cold November day and she had dressed herself up in layers of cardigans and covered the whole lot with her old tweed coat, the one she might have used for feeding the chickens in.

#barbarapym #janeandprudence #qotd #quotesaboutchickens #chooks #chooksofinstagram #aliceandclementine #chickens #backyardchooks #backyardchickens
The perfect Sunday. All day on the couch. Prosec The perfect Sunday. 
All day on the couch. 
Prosecco. 
Burgers. 

Dreading Monday.
I need a holiday.... 

#summerday #wellingtonnz #prosecco #oceanview
And in the naked light, I saw Ten thousand people, And in the naked light, I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

#hellodarknessmyoldfriend #soundofsilence #disturbed #home #redandgreen #homestyling #sanseveria
Date night. Date night.
Bit my pretty red heart in two. I was ten when th Bit my pretty red heart in two.

I was ten when they buried you.   

At twenty I tried to die

And get back, back, back to you.

I thought even the bones would do.

#sylviaplath #darkpoetry #poems
It's the kind of tired that sleep can't fix. #bat It's the kind of tired that sleep can't fix. 
#bathtime #metime #whiskygram
Tiny house living. When your kitchen counter doubl Tiny house living. When your kitchen counter doubles as your office space. 

#wfh #wfhlife #workfromhome #homestyling #tinyspaces #smallhouse
All my dreams lead me to you... #sundayadventures All my dreams lead me to you... 
#sundayadventures #sundayvibes #walksinthewoods

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