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‘I like that I’m a woman who can still / be curious when she turns a corner.’
- Margot Kahn
'I am committed to never retiring from being myself.'
- Borrowed from someone, in a meeting
- Margot Kahn
'I am committed to never retiring from being myself.'
- Borrowed from someone, in a meeting
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· Sep 19
Moshe Feldenkrais, Selvarajan Yesudian and Yoga - An open-ended story in three parts
Part 1
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I've written a piece about the connections of yoga & Feldenkrais - if you're interested please read & consider subscribing to my Substack. This topic is very much open for exploration. I'd love to hear your thoughts. wellhousecircle.substack.com/p/moshe-feld...
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'Joan Eardley hid herself away on a tiny island off the coast of Scotland...she documented the savageries of nature...standing on the edge of some unspeakable violence or turbulence, as though she were trying to locate the edge of the world...also in Glasgow' 'Glasgow Close' +2
'Joan Eardley hid herself away on a tiny island off the coast of Scotland...she documented the savageries of nature...standing on the edge of some unspeakable violence or turbulence, as though she were trying to locate the edge of the world...also in Glasgow' 'Glasgow Close' +2
January 27, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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'Joan Eardley hid herself away on a tiny island off the coast of Scotland...she documented the savageries of nature...standing on the edge of some unspeakable violence or turbulence, as though she were trying to locate the edge of the world...also in Glasgow' 'Glasgow Close' +2
'Joan Eardley hid herself away on a tiny island off the coast of Scotland...she documented the savageries of nature...standing on the edge of some unspeakable violence or turbulence, as though she were trying to locate the edge of the world...also in Glasgow' 'Glasgow Close' +2
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Louise Bourgeois 'portrays herself as a spider' p190 Also Femme Maison, where Bourgeois 'explores the relationship of a woman & the home....women's heads have been replaced with houses, isolating their bodies from the outside world and keeping their minds domestic.' [Wikipedia]
Louise Bourgeois 'portrays herself as a spider' p190 Also Femme Maison, where Bourgeois 'explores the relationship of a woman & the home....women's heads have been replaced with houses, isolating their bodies from the outside world and keeping their minds domestic.' [Wikipedia]
January 27, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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Louise Bourgeois 'portrays herself as a spider' p190 Also Femme Maison, where Bourgeois 'explores the relationship of a woman & the home....women's heads have been replaced with houses, isolating their bodies from the outside world and keeping their minds domestic.' [Wikipedia]
Louise Bourgeois 'portrays herself as a spider' p190 Also Femme Maison, where Bourgeois 'explores the relationship of a woman & the home....women's heads have been replaced with houses, isolating their bodies from the outside world and keeping their minds domestic.' [Wikipedia]
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Topsy turvy world
Another interviewer who does all theh talking: 'he seemed to take such a long time to get round to asking a question & when he did, discovered that he himself had the best answer for it'...
'the grandmothers...listen to him for hours on end'
Topsy turvy world
Another interviewer who does all theh talking: 'he seemed to take such a long time to get round to asking a question & when he did, discovered that he himself had the best answer for it'...
'the grandmothers...listen to him for hours on end'
January 27, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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Topsy turvy world
Another interviewer who does all theh talking: 'he seemed to take such a long time to get round to asking a question & when he did, discovered that he himself had the best answer for it'...
'the grandmothers...listen to him for hours on end'
Topsy turvy world
Another interviewer who does all theh talking: 'he seemed to take such a long time to get round to asking a question & when he did, discovered that he himself had the best answer for it'...
'the grandmothers...listen to him for hours on end'
#rachelcusktogether
'he had deduced from my work that if I had an imagination I had the sense to keep it well concealed'
That's not exactly damning with faint praise, but it's something equally insulting,.
'he had deduced from my work that if I had an imagination I had the sense to keep it well concealed'
That's not exactly damning with faint praise, but it's something equally insulting,.
January 27, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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'he had deduced from my work that if I had an imagination I had the sense to keep it well concealed'
That's not exactly damning with faint praise, but it's something equally insulting,.
'he had deduced from my work that if I had an imagination I had the sense to keep it well concealed'
That's not exactly damning with faint praise, but it's something equally insulting,.
#rachelcusktogether
'Could a spiritual value be attached to the mirror itself, so that by passing dispassionately through evil it proved its own virtue, its own incorruptibility?'
Is Fay such a mirror?
'Could a spiritual value be attached to the mirror itself, so that by passing dispassionately through evil it proved its own virtue, its own incorruptibility?'
Is Fay such a mirror?
January 25, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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'Could a spiritual value be attached to the mirror itself, so that by passing dispassionately through evil it proved its own virtue, its own incorruptibility?'
Is Fay such a mirror?
'Could a spiritual value be attached to the mirror itself, so that by passing dispassionately through evil it proved its own virtue, its own incorruptibility?'
Is Fay such a mirror?
#rachelcusktogether
'The question of whether I believed there was a third kind of honesty, beyond that of the person who leaves &...the person who stays; an honesty to which no moral bias could be ascribed...that can describe evil as dispassionately as virtue'
This is Cusk's project.
'The question of whether I believed there was a third kind of honesty, beyond that of the person who leaves &...the person who stays; an honesty to which no moral bias could be ascribed...that can describe evil as dispassionately as virtue'
This is Cusk's project.
January 25, 2026 at 11:05 AM
#rachelcusktogether
'The question of whether I believed there was a third kind of honesty, beyond that of the person who leaves &...the person who stays; an honesty to which no moral bias could be ascribed...that can describe evil as dispassionately as virtue'
This is Cusk's project.
'The question of whether I believed there was a third kind of honesty, beyond that of the person who leaves &...the person who stays; an honesty to which no moral bias could be ascribed...that can describe evil as dispassionately as virtue'
This is Cusk's project.
#rachelcusktogether
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...
I haven't read Bernhard, but a comparison beckons - if any others want to pursue the connections!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...
I haven't read Bernhard, but a comparison beckons - if any others want to pursue the connections!
January 25, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...
I haven't read Bernhard, but a comparison beckons - if any others want to pursue the connections!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...
I haven't read Bernhard, but a comparison beckons - if any others want to pursue the connections!
#rachelcusktogether
More post-Brexit reflections
'At one time I had a love affair with England...I loved its poetry & its irony - I loved it so much I cursed the fact I hadn't been born an Englishman. But now,...I feel lucky not to be one.'
'The changing perspectives of identity...'
More post-Brexit reflections
'At one time I had a love affair with England...I loved its poetry & its irony - I loved it so much I cursed the fact I hadn't been born an Englishman. But now,...I feel lucky not to be one.'
'The changing perspectives of identity...'
January 25, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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More post-Brexit reflections
'At one time I had a love affair with England...I loved its poetry & its irony - I loved it so much I cursed the fact I hadn't been born an Englishman. But now,...I feel lucky not to be one.'
'The changing perspectives of identity...'
More post-Brexit reflections
'At one time I had a love affair with England...I loved its poetry & its irony - I loved it so much I cursed the fact I hadn't been born an Englishman. But now,...I feel lucky not to be one.'
'The changing perspectives of identity...'
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This is Alex Pretti.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 AM
This is Alex Pretti.
#rachelcusktogether
'this sense of his own story was just an illusion, because not enough was left any more for another story: enough time, enough material, enough authenticity. Everything has been used up...'
'this sense of his own story was just an illusion, because not enough was left any more for another story: enough time, enough material, enough authenticity. Everything has been used up...'
January 24, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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'this sense of his own story was just an illusion, because not enough was left any more for another story: enough time, enough material, enough authenticity. Everything has been used up...'
'this sense of his own story was just an illusion, because not enough was left any more for another story: enough time, enough material, enough authenticity. Everything has been used up...'
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'The other day...my son & I were talking about politics, & he observed that in the current situation the possibility of destruction seemed genuinely to be upon us, to the extent that he couldn't see what move on the chess board would get us out of this corner.'
Timely
'The other day...my son & I were talking about politics, & he observed that in the current situation the possibility of destruction seemed genuinely to be upon us, to the extent that he couldn't see what move on the chess board would get us out of this corner.'
Timely
January 24, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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'The other day...my son & I were talking about politics, & he observed that in the current situation the possibility of destruction seemed genuinely to be upon us, to the extent that he couldn't see what move on the chess board would get us out of this corner.'
Timely
'The other day...my son & I were talking about politics, & he observed that in the current situation the possibility of destruction seemed genuinely to be upon us, to the extent that he couldn't see what move on the chess board would get us out of this corner.'
Timely
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'Perhaps it follows, he said, that people who live in the sun don't take responsibility for their own happiness.'
There's something in that. When I left Los Angeles, I didn't realise how much I expected most days to be sunny & how much I would resent it when they weren't!
'Perhaps it follows, he said, that people who live in the sun don't take responsibility for their own happiness.'
There's something in that. When I left Los Angeles, I didn't realise how much I expected most days to be sunny & how much I would resent it when they weren't!
January 24, 2026 at 4:37 PM
#rachelcusktogether
'Perhaps it follows, he said, that people who live in the sun don't take responsibility for their own happiness.'
There's something in that. When I left Los Angeles, I didn't realise how much I expected most days to be sunny & how much I would resent it when they weren't!
'Perhaps it follows, he said, that people who live in the sun don't take responsibility for their own happiness.'
There's something in that. When I left Los Angeles, I didn't realise how much I expected most days to be sunny & how much I would resent it when they weren't!
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I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 4:04 PM
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
Reposted by @karinj.bsky.social
“I forget I’ve always lived / in this body, on this planet.”
— Kyla Jamieson
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This poem appeared in Sick Magazine, Issue 4, 2022. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Kyla Jamieson
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This poem appeared in Sick Magazine, Issue 4, 2022. Shared here with deep gratitude.
January 24, 2026 at 2:01 PM
“I forget I’ve always lived / in this body, on this planet.”
— Kyla Jamieson
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.
This poem appeared in Sick Magazine, Issue 4, 2022. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Kyla Jamieson
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This poem appeared in Sick Magazine, Issue 4, 2022. Shared here with deep gratitude.
#rachelcusktogether
The love-hate relationship with the jacaranda tree as a symbol: 'it reminds...of the possibility that it is patience & endurance & loyalty - rather than ambition & desire.'
The love-hate relationship with the jacaranda tree as a symbol: 'it reminds...of the possibility that it is patience & endurance & loyalty - rather than ambition & desire.'
January 23, 2026 at 8:49 AM
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The love-hate relationship with the jacaranda tree as a symbol: 'it reminds...of the possibility that it is patience & endurance & loyalty - rather than ambition & desire.'
The love-hate relationship with the jacaranda tree as a symbol: 'it reminds...of the possibility that it is patience & endurance & loyalty - rather than ambition & desire.'
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I grew up on streets lined with jacaranda trees. They had been there for decades & after the brief two weeks of 'ethereal clouds of luminous violet clusters', the streets were littered with crushed, decaying, trodden purple detritus that lasted longer than the flowers.
I grew up on streets lined with jacaranda trees. They had been there for decades & after the brief two weeks of 'ethereal clouds of luminous violet clusters', the streets were littered with crushed, decaying, trodden purple detritus that lasted longer than the flowers.
January 23, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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I grew up on streets lined with jacaranda trees. They had been there for decades & after the brief two weeks of 'ethereal clouds of luminous violet clusters', the streets were littered with crushed, decaying, trodden purple detritus that lasted longer than the flowers.
I grew up on streets lined with jacaranda trees. They had been there for decades & after the brief two weeks of 'ethereal clouds of luminous violet clusters', the streets were littered with crushed, decaying, trodden purple detritus that lasted longer than the flowers.
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Great story of the people who felt free on holiday, then satnav broke, they were driving round & round (in typical Cusk mode) 'trying to find an esacpe route'. 'All that time, he said smiling, when they thought they were free, they were in fact lost without knowing it.'
Great story of the people who felt free on holiday, then satnav broke, they were driving round & round (in typical Cusk mode) 'trying to find an esacpe route'. 'All that time, he said smiling, when they thought they were free, they were in fact lost without knowing it.'
January 23, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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Great story of the people who felt free on holiday, then satnav broke, they were driving round & round (in typical Cusk mode) 'trying to find an esacpe route'. 'All that time, he said smiling, when they thought they were free, they were in fact lost without knowing it.'
Great story of the people who felt free on holiday, then satnav broke, they were driving round & round (in typical Cusk mode) 'trying to find an esacpe route'. 'All that time, he said smiling, when they thought they were free, they were in fact lost without knowing it.'
#rachelcusktogether
Post-Brexit commentary - true for US too & elsewhere
'the man ... a great pockmarked tattooed creature ...tucking into a huge plate of fried food & announcing to the whole room... at long last he could be an Englishman eating a full English breakfast in his own country.'
Post-Brexit commentary - true for US too & elsewhere
'the man ... a great pockmarked tattooed creature ...tucking into a huge plate of fried food & announcing to the whole room... at long last he could be an Englishman eating a full English breakfast in his own country.'
January 23, 2026 at 8:42 AM
#rachelcusktogether
Post-Brexit commentary - true for US too & elsewhere
'the man ... a great pockmarked tattooed creature ...tucking into a huge plate of fried food & announcing to the whole room... at long last he could be an Englishman eating a full English breakfast in his own country.'
Post-Brexit commentary - true for US too & elsewhere
'the man ... a great pockmarked tattooed creature ...tucking into a huge plate of fried food & announcing to the whole room... at long last he could be an Englishman eating a full English breakfast in his own country.'
Sophia's son takes away 'the burden of perception from me, which to my mind was inseparable from the burden of living & of telling the story. He showed me in that moment that it was, in fact, separate, & the effect on me was to me me feel an incredible sense of freedom'1/2
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January 23, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Sophia's son takes away 'the burden of perception from me, which to my mind was inseparable from the burden of living & of telling the story. He showed me in that moment that it was, in fact, separate, & the effect on me was to me me feel an incredible sense of freedom'1/2
#rachelcusktogether
#rachelcusktogether
Perceiving is unconnected from living and unconnected from telling the story....is that what Fay is doing now? There is no need to tell the story. The Outline trilogy is full of others' stories, not her own. Is she free to perceive and live, with no need to tell her story?
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#rachelcusktogether
January 23, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Perceiving is unconnected from living and unconnected from telling the story....is that what Fay is doing now? There is no need to tell the story. The Outline trilogy is full of others' stories, not her own. Is she free to perceive and live, with no need to tell her story?
#rachelcusktogether
#rachelcusktogether
#rachelcusktogether
The first two courses of this distasteful meal are made of unreocnigsalbe ingredients = meat of 'the parts no one would eat otherwise', 'a small moulded shape which Sophia portentously described as being made of fish'. And the third course is an oily fish stew.
The first two courses of this distasteful meal are made of unreocnigsalbe ingredients = meat of 'the parts no one would eat otherwise', 'a small moulded shape which Sophia portentously described as being made of fish'. And the third course is an oily fish stew.
January 21, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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The first two courses of this distasteful meal are made of unreocnigsalbe ingredients = meat of 'the parts no one would eat otherwise', 'a small moulded shape which Sophia portentously described as being made of fish'. And the third course is an oily fish stew.
The first two courses of this distasteful meal are made of unreocnigsalbe ingredients = meat of 'the parts no one would eat otherwise', 'a small moulded shape which Sophia portentously described as being made of fish'. And the third course is an oily fish stew.
#rachelcusktogether
The story of the crop circle and bludgeoning to death the trapped wildlife.
What is it about Cusk and beating animals? Or am I over-sensitised to this recurrent motif?
The story of the crop circle and bludgeoning to death the trapped wildlife.
What is it about Cusk and beating animals? Or am I over-sensitised to this recurrent motif?
January 21, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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The story of the crop circle and bludgeoning to death the trapped wildlife.
What is it about Cusk and beating animals? Or am I over-sensitised to this recurrent motif?
The story of the crop circle and bludgeoning to death the trapped wildlife.
What is it about Cusk and beating animals? Or am I over-sensitised to this recurrent motif?
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It’s the perfect day to find a secluded cottage in the Scottish Highlands and go off the grid for a few years.
January 21, 2026 at 2:47 PM
It’s the perfect day to find a secluded cottage in the Scottish Highlands and go off the grid for a few years.
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I think @dandrezner.bsky.social and @profsaunders.bsky.social are two of the best analysts of Trump and their Foreign Affairs piece is predictably worth reading on the anarchy being unleashed - "nasty, brutish and shortsighted"
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
January 20, 2026 at 3:14 PM
I think @dandrezner.bsky.social and @profsaunders.bsky.social are two of the best analysts of Trump and their Foreign Affairs piece is predictably worth reading on the anarchy being unleashed - "nasty, brutish and shortsighted"
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
#rachelcusktogether
When the interviewer asks her what she has noticed on her way there, that takes us back to the icebreaker for the writing group in Outline - full circle.
Have we made any progress? Do we know more about Fay? Or are we just going round in circles?
When the interviewer asks her what she has noticed on her way there, that takes us back to the icebreaker for the writing group in Outline - full circle.
Have we made any progress? Do we know more about Fay? Or are we just going round in circles?
January 19, 2026 at 6:42 PM
#rachelcusktogether
When the interviewer asks her what she has noticed on her way there, that takes us back to the icebreaker for the writing group in Outline - full circle.
Have we made any progress? Do we know more about Fay? Or are we just going round in circles?
When the interviewer asks her what she has noticed on her way there, that takes us back to the icebreaker for the writing group in Outline - full circle.
Have we made any progress? Do we know more about Fay? Or are we just going round in circles?