Clare Lavery
@clerotto.bsky.social
Creative writer, content creator ,Linguist ,trainer, activist
Human Rights campaigner, Against all forms of violence against women & children
Interested in systems reform & healing from trauma & adversity in education & communities
Language Matters
Human Rights campaigner, Against all forms of violence against women & children
Interested in systems reform & healing from trauma & adversity in education & communities
Language Matters
The fences we mend
The fences we build
The fences we disguise
Now is the season to examine those fences
Embrace a new way
Advent: Festa in Italy this weekend
The fences we build
The fences we disguise
Now is the season to examine those fences
Embrace a new way
Advent: Festa in Italy this weekend
December 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The fences we mend
The fences we build
The fences we disguise
Now is the season to examine those fences
Embrace a new way
Advent: Festa in Italy this weekend
The fences we build
The fences we disguise
Now is the season to examine those fences
Embrace a new way
Advent: Festa in Italy this weekend
‘Un bouquet de houx vert et de bruyère en fleur’
Advent decorations
Mandria Hunting Lodge
Venaria Reale 🇮🇹
Victor Hugo- Demain dès L’Aube
youtu.be/JCALzedgQ8w?...
Frangines sing Hugo 🎶🎶
youtu.be/l2heOmVRvi8?...
Advent decorations
Mandria Hunting Lodge
Venaria Reale 🇮🇹
Victor Hugo- Demain dès L’Aube
youtu.be/JCALzedgQ8w?...
Frangines sing Hugo 🎶🎶
youtu.be/l2heOmVRvi8?...
December 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
‘Un bouquet de houx vert et de bruyère en fleur’
Advent decorations
Mandria Hunting Lodge
Venaria Reale 🇮🇹
Victor Hugo- Demain dès L’Aube
youtu.be/JCALzedgQ8w?...
Frangines sing Hugo 🎶🎶
youtu.be/l2heOmVRvi8?...
Advent decorations
Mandria Hunting Lodge
Venaria Reale 🇮🇹
Victor Hugo- Demain dès L’Aube
youtu.be/JCALzedgQ8w?...
Frangines sing Hugo 🎶🎶
youtu.be/l2heOmVRvi8?...
On a festive weekend
An invigorating walk
Following kilometres of tracks
on the Italian Royal Hunting estate
Restored barns resplendent
Nature’s gifts decorating window ledges & door frames
Misty peaks silhouetting the landscape
Hunting High & Low
youtu.be/86LZCXIwMxs?...
An invigorating walk
Following kilometres of tracks
on the Italian Royal Hunting estate
Restored barns resplendent
Nature’s gifts decorating window ledges & door frames
Misty peaks silhouetting the landscape
Hunting High & Low
youtu.be/86LZCXIwMxs?...
December 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
On a festive weekend
An invigorating walk
Following kilometres of tracks
on the Italian Royal Hunting estate
Restored barns resplendent
Nature’s gifts decorating window ledges & door frames
Misty peaks silhouetting the landscape
Hunting High & Low
youtu.be/86LZCXIwMxs?...
An invigorating walk
Following kilometres of tracks
on the Italian Royal Hunting estate
Restored barns resplendent
Nature’s gifts decorating window ledges & door frames
Misty peaks silhouetting the landscape
Hunting High & Low
youtu.be/86LZCXIwMxs?...
"There is no snow more beautiful than that of Saturday evening. It resembles the feathers of angelic wings"
Shmuel Yosef Agnon Israeli poet and writer 1887 1970 Nobel Literature 1966
With fresh snow on the Higher peaks today on the 🇮🇹border
Photo c/o @RamellaUgo
Shmuel Yosef Agnon Israeli poet and writer 1887 1970 Nobel Literature 1966
With fresh snow on the Higher peaks today on the 🇮🇹border
Photo c/o @RamellaUgo
December 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"There is no snow more beautiful than that of Saturday evening. It resembles the feathers of angelic wings"
Shmuel Yosef Agnon Israeli poet and writer 1887 1970 Nobel Literature 1966
With fresh snow on the Higher peaks today on the 🇮🇹border
Photo c/o @RamellaUgo
Shmuel Yosef Agnon Israeli poet and writer 1887 1970 Nobel Literature 1966
With fresh snow on the Higher peaks today on the 🇮🇹border
Photo c/o @RamellaUgo
The Goldfish Bowl
#OrangeTheWorld #16Days #16DaysOfActivism2025 #VAWG
Day 12 Shine a Light
No Shame in sight
#OrangeTheWorld #16Days #16DaysOfActivism2025 #VAWG
Day 12 Shine a Light
No Shame in sight
December 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The Goldfish Bowl
#OrangeTheWorld #16Days #16DaysOfActivism2025 #VAWG
Day 12 Shine a Light
No Shame in sight
#OrangeTheWorld #16Days #16DaysOfActivism2025 #VAWG
Day 12 Shine a Light
No Shame in sight
Some good walking up ahead
Bright days forecast
Best foot forwards
In walking
We make the way
Walking (For your Love)
youtu.be/LaALYMkxjU4?...
Bright days forecast
Best foot forwards
In walking
We make the way
Walking (For your Love)
youtu.be/LaALYMkxjU4?...
December 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Some good walking up ahead
Bright days forecast
Best foot forwards
In walking
We make the way
Walking (For your Love)
youtu.be/LaALYMkxjU4?...
Bright days forecast
Best foot forwards
In walking
We make the way
Walking (For your Love)
youtu.be/LaALYMkxjU4?...
We wake in darkness
of a goldfish bowl
of tight-knit rural
In the full glare of Light
Stories they tell of the dark dark wood
Visit our home
We can run away in Shame
or wake them
The Choice is always Ours
The Waker
youtu.be/GbcsQJnQw8w?...
Tabusso - Goldfish under a Full Moon
of a goldfish bowl
of tight-knit rural
In the full glare of Light
Stories they tell of the dark dark wood
Visit our home
We can run away in Shame
or wake them
The Choice is always Ours
The Waker
youtu.be/GbcsQJnQw8w?...
Tabusso - Goldfish under a Full Moon
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
We wake in darkness
of a goldfish bowl
of tight-knit rural
In the full glare of Light
Stories they tell of the dark dark wood
Visit our home
We can run away in Shame
or wake them
The Choice is always Ours
The Waker
youtu.be/GbcsQJnQw8w?...
Tabusso - Goldfish under a Full Moon
of a goldfish bowl
of tight-knit rural
In the full glare of Light
Stories they tell of the dark dark wood
Visit our home
We can run away in Shame
or wake them
The Choice is always Ours
The Waker
youtu.be/GbcsQJnQw8w?...
Tabusso - Goldfish under a Full Moon
All our connections
intertwine
Violence in a small community
severs them
tangles them
unravels our hearts
steals our faith
blots out wonder
until we meet ourselves again
untangle
reconnect
with someone who restores
Wonder
Wondering on Tabusso
youtu.be/FSnzHBO2UbA?...
intertwine
Violence in a small community
severs them
tangles them
unravels our hearts
steals our faith
blots out wonder
until we meet ourselves again
untangle
reconnect
with someone who restores
Wonder
Wondering on Tabusso
youtu.be/FSnzHBO2UbA?...
December 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
All our connections
intertwine
Violence in a small community
severs them
tangles them
unravels our hearts
steals our faith
blots out wonder
until we meet ourselves again
untangle
reconnect
with someone who restores
Wonder
Wondering on Tabusso
youtu.be/FSnzHBO2UbA?...
intertwine
Violence in a small community
severs them
tangles them
unravels our hearts
steals our faith
blots out wonder
until we meet ourselves again
untangle
reconnect
with someone who restores
Wonder
Wondering on Tabusso
youtu.be/FSnzHBO2UbA?...
Some good walking up ahead
Bright days forecast
Best foot forwards
In walking
We make the way
Walking (For your Love)
youtu.be/LaALYMkxjU4?...
Bright days forecast
Best foot forwards
In walking
We make the way
Walking (For your Love)
youtu.be/LaALYMkxjU4?...
December 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Some good walking up ahead
Bright days forecast
Best foot forwards
In walking
We make the way
Walking (For your Love)
youtu.be/LaALYMkxjU4?...
Bright days forecast
Best foot forwards
In walking
We make the way
Walking (For your Love)
youtu.be/LaALYMkxjU4?...
You find each Other
Every Community has survivors
Every Voice finds us
Survivors support each other
with a gentle allyship
Invisible to most
Until you are ready to Fly
Surprise Valley
youtu.be/1bWQDrSfzz0?...
Snow fell on peaks this week- At the 🇮🇹Border in Susa Valley
Tabusso
Every Community has survivors
Every Voice finds us
Survivors support each other
with a gentle allyship
Invisible to most
Until you are ready to Fly
Surprise Valley
youtu.be/1bWQDrSfzz0?...
Snow fell on peaks this week- At the 🇮🇹Border in Susa Valley
Tabusso
December 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
You find each Other
Every Community has survivors
Every Voice finds us
Survivors support each other
with a gentle allyship
Invisible to most
Until you are ready to Fly
Surprise Valley
youtu.be/1bWQDrSfzz0?...
Snow fell on peaks this week- At the 🇮🇹Border in Susa Valley
Tabusso
Every Community has survivors
Every Voice finds us
Survivors support each other
with a gentle allyship
Invisible to most
Until you are ready to Fly
Surprise Valley
youtu.be/1bWQDrSfzz0?...
Snow fell on peaks this week- At the 🇮🇹Border in Susa Valley
Tabusso
Up in the Borgata in Alpine Hills
A local artwork on the rough stone walls of a Church I frequented
Reminded that even when your Church or community fail to protect
There’s always a few dear Souls who climbed before & restore your faith in Humanity
Climb to Safety
youtu.be/iLqZ5ne26dU?...
A local artwork on the rough stone walls of a Church I frequented
Reminded that even when your Church or community fail to protect
There’s always a few dear Souls who climbed before & restore your faith in Humanity
Climb to Safety
youtu.be/iLqZ5ne26dU?...
December 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Up in the Borgata in Alpine Hills
A local artwork on the rough stone walls of a Church I frequented
Reminded that even when your Church or community fail to protect
There’s always a few dear Souls who climbed before & restore your faith in Humanity
Climb to Safety
youtu.be/iLqZ5ne26dU?...
A local artwork on the rough stone walls of a Church I frequented
Reminded that even when your Church or community fail to protect
There’s always a few dear Souls who climbed before & restore your faith in Humanity
Climb to Safety
youtu.be/iLqZ5ne26dU?...
#OrangeTheWorld #16Days
Day 11 #16DaysOfActivism2025
A time of Peace and Joy is upon us
What the World needs now
Make Peace with your past
Take every opportunity to bring harmony
Diffuse & challenge violence
Downtown Turin
Day 11 #16DaysOfActivism2025
A time of Peace and Joy is upon us
What the World needs now
Make Peace with your past
Take every opportunity to bring harmony
Diffuse & challenge violence
Downtown Turin
December 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
#OrangeTheWorld #16Days
Day 11 #16DaysOfActivism2025
A time of Peace and Joy is upon us
What the World needs now
Make Peace with your past
Take every opportunity to bring harmony
Diffuse & challenge violence
Downtown Turin
Day 11 #16DaysOfActivism2025
A time of Peace and Joy is upon us
What the World needs now
Make Peace with your past
Take every opportunity to bring harmony
Diffuse & challenge violence
Downtown Turin
#16DaysOfActivism #16Days
Italy has the highest #femicide rate in Europe
Loving should not mean dying
Recent cases included a considerable digital stalking component
Love well. Love Long
Centre of Turin - red bench
Italy has the highest #femicide rate in Europe
Loving should not mean dying
Recent cases included a considerable digital stalking component
Love well. Love Long
Centre of Turin - red bench
December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
#16DaysOfActivism #16Days
Italy has the highest #femicide rate in Europe
Loving should not mean dying
Recent cases included a considerable digital stalking component
Love well. Love Long
Centre of Turin - red bench
Italy has the highest #femicide rate in Europe
Loving should not mean dying
Recent cases included a considerable digital stalking component
Love well. Love Long
Centre of Turin - red bench
Advent
#16Days Home & Safety
Central to Human Rights
On a full moon we revisit that place
Tying up loose ends
The crib figures long since fled to calmer shores
Make peace your home 🏠
This is Our Home
youtu.be/J7fpCPU2_uE?...
Image
#16Days Home & Safety
Central to Human Rights
On a full moon we revisit that place
Tying up loose ends
The crib figures long since fled to calmer shores
Make peace your home 🏠
This is Our Home
youtu.be/J7fpCPU2_uE?...
Image
December 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Advent
#16Days Home & Safety
Central to Human Rights
On a full moon we revisit that place
Tying up loose ends
The crib figures long since fled to calmer shores
Make peace your home 🏠
This is Our Home
youtu.be/J7fpCPU2_uE?...
Image
#16Days Home & Safety
Central to Human Rights
On a full moon we revisit that place
Tying up loose ends
The crib figures long since fled to calmer shores
Make peace your home 🏠
This is Our Home
youtu.be/J7fpCPU2_uE?...
Image
Tales of wandering in the snow-covered hills
When the landslide brought you down
#VagandoPerLeStrade
Night Night
Notte
Landslide
youtu.be/ONzuVds6hPE?...
When the landslide brought you down
#VagandoPerLeStrade
Night Night
Notte
Landslide
youtu.be/ONzuVds6hPE?...
December 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Tales of wandering in the snow-covered hills
When the landslide brought you down
#VagandoPerLeStrade
Night Night
Notte
Landslide
youtu.be/ONzuVds6hPE?...
When the landslide brought you down
#VagandoPerLeStrade
Night Night
Notte
Landslide
youtu.be/ONzuVds6hPE?...
Antique shop backstreets of Turin
A timely reminder of dangers we try to warn children about through fairytales of woods, wolves & Little Red Riding Hood
Tales of wandering
#vagandoPerLeStrade
The oldest crimes in History
The Century we ask for Justice
#16DaysofActivism2025
A timely reminder of dangers we try to warn children about through fairytales of woods, wolves & Little Red Riding Hood
Tales of wandering
#vagandoPerLeStrade
The oldest crimes in History
The Century we ask for Justice
#16DaysofActivism2025
December 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Antique shop backstreets of Turin
A timely reminder of dangers we try to warn children about through fairytales of woods, wolves & Little Red Riding Hood
Tales of wandering
#vagandoPerLeStrade
The oldest crimes in History
The Century we ask for Justice
#16DaysofActivism2025
A timely reminder of dangers we try to warn children about through fairytales of woods, wolves & Little Red Riding Hood
Tales of wandering
#vagandoPerLeStrade
The oldest crimes in History
The Century we ask for Justice
#16DaysofActivism2025
Day 3 Advent
Art restorers in the backstreets of Turin
You have the power to restore
To bring back colour that has faded in time
To renew your priorities
To refresh and reset
Art restorers in the backstreets of Turin
You have the power to restore
To bring back colour that has faded in time
To renew your priorities
To refresh and reset
December 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Day 3 Advent
Art restorers in the backstreets of Turin
You have the power to restore
To bring back colour that has faded in time
To renew your priorities
To refresh and reset
Art restorers in the backstreets of Turin
You have the power to restore
To bring back colour that has faded in time
To renew your priorities
To refresh and reset
"She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion”
R. Payne
#VagandoPerLeStrade Di Torino Oggi
R. Payne
#VagandoPerLeStrade Di Torino Oggi
December 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
"She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion”
R. Payne
#VagandoPerLeStrade Di Torino Oggi
R. Payne
#VagandoPerLeStrade Di Torino Oggi
#LanguageMatters Tech Abuse is a Truman Show
Watching’The Truman Show’ is a lesson in gaslighting & manipulation.
Could be triggering for anyone who has been in a Truman Show.
The extent of digital surveillance & its trauma impacts are totally underestimated
Hard watch
youtu.be/6U4-KZSoe6g?...
Watching’The Truman Show’ is a lesson in gaslighting & manipulation.
Could be triggering for anyone who has been in a Truman Show.
The extent of digital surveillance & its trauma impacts are totally underestimated
Hard watch
youtu.be/6U4-KZSoe6g?...
December 2, 2025 at 6:35 AM
#LanguageMatters Tech Abuse is a Truman Show
Watching’The Truman Show’ is a lesson in gaslighting & manipulation.
Could be triggering for anyone who has been in a Truman Show.
The extent of digital surveillance & its trauma impacts are totally underestimated
Hard watch
youtu.be/6U4-KZSoe6g?...
Watching’The Truman Show’ is a lesson in gaslighting & manipulation.
Could be triggering for anyone who has been in a Truman Show.
The extent of digital surveillance & its trauma impacts are totally underestimated
Hard watch
youtu.be/6U4-KZSoe6g?...
‘Dance the orange.
The warmth of the landscape,
It draws you forth, so that your
ripeness streams forth
Resplendent on the local
breezes! A glow arising,
revealed’
Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus
Felicità
youtu.be/hFkTU1TefHI?...
#ComposizioneDelCuore
Botticelli Nativity
The warmth of the landscape,
It draws you forth, so that your
ripeness streams forth
Resplendent on the local
breezes! A glow arising,
revealed’
Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus
Felicità
youtu.be/hFkTU1TefHI?...
#ComposizioneDelCuore
Botticelli Nativity
December 2, 2025 at 6:19 AM
‘Dance the orange.
The warmth of the landscape,
It draws you forth, so that your
ripeness streams forth
Resplendent on the local
breezes! A glow arising,
revealed’
Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus
Felicità
youtu.be/hFkTU1TefHI?...
#ComposizioneDelCuore
Botticelli Nativity
The warmth of the landscape,
It draws you forth, so that your
ripeness streams forth
Resplendent on the local
breezes! A glow arising,
revealed’
Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus
Felicità
youtu.be/hFkTU1TefHI?...
#ComposizioneDelCuore
Botticelli Nativity
“So many are intent on retreating into their heads
dance remains a vital link
Revitalising
connecting us to the heart of our physicality.”
Luckman
#ComposizioneDelCuore The Heart's Dance
Balla Ballerino
youtu.be/hnC6E5EomI8?...
Sandro Botticelli. Natività Mistica
dance remains a vital link
Revitalising
connecting us to the heart of our physicality.”
Luckman
#ComposizioneDelCuore The Heart's Dance
Balla Ballerino
youtu.be/hnC6E5EomI8?...
Sandro Botticelli. Natività Mistica
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
“So many are intent on retreating into their heads
dance remains a vital link
Revitalising
connecting us to the heart of our physicality.”
Luckman
#ComposizioneDelCuore The Heart's Dance
Balla Ballerino
youtu.be/hnC6E5EomI8?...
Sandro Botticelli. Natività Mistica
dance remains a vital link
Revitalising
connecting us to the heart of our physicality.”
Luckman
#ComposizioneDelCuore The Heart's Dance
Balla Ballerino
youtu.be/hnC6E5EomI8?...
Sandro Botticelli. Natività Mistica
Brisk start to Advent with a rain-soaked Angel with attitude
Warmed by decent cappuccino & the chatter of old pals
#ColourTheWorldOrange
‘O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!’
Shakespeare
Anche gli Angeli
youtu.be/egzLE6sR1_w?...
Warmed by decent cappuccino & the chatter of old pals
#ColourTheWorldOrange
‘O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!’
Shakespeare
Anche gli Angeli
youtu.be/egzLE6sR1_w?...
December 2, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Brisk start to Advent with a rain-soaked Angel with attitude
Warmed by decent cappuccino & the chatter of old pals
#ColourTheWorldOrange
‘O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!’
Shakespeare
Anche gli Angeli
youtu.be/egzLE6sR1_w?...
Warmed by decent cappuccino & the chatter of old pals
#ColourTheWorldOrange
‘O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!’
Shakespeare
Anche gli Angeli
youtu.be/egzLE6sR1_w?...
“It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.”
― Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
Follow you
youtu.be/DyDRXbP1MaY?...
― Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
Follow you
youtu.be/DyDRXbP1MaY?...
November 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.”
― Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
Follow you
youtu.be/DyDRXbP1MaY?...
― Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
Follow you
youtu.be/DyDRXbP1MaY?...
“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no.
But somehow we missed it.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Ripples
youtu.be/gAMBKnKPANo?...
But somehow we missed it.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Ripples
youtu.be/gAMBKnKPANo?...
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no.
But somehow we missed it.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Ripples
youtu.be/gAMBKnKPANo?...
But somehow we missed it.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Ripples
youtu.be/gAMBKnKPANo?...
“What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
“What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead