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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
wellhousecircle.substack.com
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...
#rachelcusktogether
Oliver is in transit as so many of these characters are. Perhaps they all are. Perhaps we all are.
'he was now effectively homeless...it has started to come back to him, the way sometimes you only remember something when you find yourself once more in that same position...' 1/2
Oliver is in transit as so many of these characters are. Perhaps they all are. Perhaps we all are.
'he was now effectively homeless...it has started to come back to him, the way sometimes you only remember something when you find yourself once more in that same position...' 1/2
December 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
#rachelcusktogether
Oliver is in transit as so many of these characters are. Perhaps they all are. Perhaps we all are.
'he was now effectively homeless...it has started to come back to him, the way sometimes you only remember something when you find yourself once more in that same position...' 1/2
Oliver is in transit as so many of these characters are. Perhaps they all are. Perhaps we all are.
'he was now effectively homeless...it has started to come back to him, the way sometimes you only remember something when you find yourself once more in that same position...' 1/2
#rachelcusktogether
A familiar theme for Cusk - change is not progress.
So is Transit progress?
'like the episode of Mino & the bird, he often caught himself living in the mistaken belief that transformation was the same...as progress. Things could look very different while remaining the same.' 1/2
A familiar theme for Cusk - change is not progress.
So is Transit progress?
'like the episode of Mino & the bird, he often caught himself living in the mistaken belief that transformation was the same...as progress. Things could look very different while remaining the same.' 1/2
November 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
#rachelcusktogether
A familiar theme for Cusk - change is not progress.
So is Transit progress?
'like the episode of Mino & the bird, he often caught himself living in the mistaken belief that transformation was the same...as progress. Things could look very different while remaining the same.' 1/2
A familiar theme for Cusk - change is not progress.
So is Transit progress?
'like the episode of Mino & the bird, he often caught himself living in the mistaken belief that transformation was the same...as progress. Things could look very different while remaining the same.' 1/2
#rachelcusktogether
Questions about freedom: do we become freer through learning to overcome our nature or is our basic nature, with its inbuilt propensity to suffering, our free state? What does Cusk think?
Questions about freedom: do we become freer through learning to overcome our nature or is our basic nature, with its inbuilt propensity to suffering, our free state? What does Cusk think?
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Questions about freedom: do we become freer through learning to overcome our nature or is our basic nature, with its inbuilt propensity to suffering, our free state? What does Cusk think?
Questions about freedom: do we become freer through learning to overcome our nature or is our basic nature, with its inbuilt propensity to suffering, our free state? What does Cusk think?
#rachelcusktogether
Mino & the bird flapping inside Louis still. 'After all, it was in its nature not to learn, not to retain knowledge: once it became trained, its nature was transgressed & it was no longer free'. It's human nature to learn. Learning leads to freedom.
Training isn't learning.
Mino & the bird flapping inside Louis still. 'After all, it was in its nature not to learn, not to retain knowledge: once it became trained, its nature was transgressed & it was no longer free'. It's human nature to learn. Learning leads to freedom.
Training isn't learning.
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#rachelcusktogether
Mino & the bird flapping inside Louis still. 'After all, it was in its nature not to learn, not to retain knowledge: once it became trained, its nature was transgressed & it was no longer free'. It's human nature to learn. Learning leads to freedom.
Training isn't learning.
Mino & the bird flapping inside Louis still. 'After all, it was in its nature not to learn, not to retain knowledge: once it became trained, its nature was transgressed & it was no longer free'. It's human nature to learn. Learning leads to freedom.
Training isn't learning.
#rachelcusktogether
This book talk is like no other. Each of them opening up their psychological secrets to the audience. Can't wait for our narrator to partake!
This book talk is like no other. Each of them opening up their psychological secrets to the audience. Can't wait for our narrator to partake!
November 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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This book talk is like no other. Each of them opening up their psychological secrets to the audience. Can't wait for our narrator to partake!
This book talk is like no other. Each of them opening up their psychological secrets to the audience. Can't wait for our narrator to partake!
#rachelcusktogether
'Only then did you know that you'd got the better of the things that had happened to you: when you controlled the story rather than it controlling you.'
I'm struggling with the excruciatingness of Julian's public confessions. Anyone else?
'Only then did you know that you'd got the better of the things that had happened to you: when you controlled the story rather than it controlling you.'
I'm struggling with the excruciatingness of Julian's public confessions. Anyone else?
November 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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'Only then did you know that you'd got the better of the things that had happened to you: when you controlled the story rather than it controlling you.'
I'm struggling with the excruciatingness of Julian's public confessions. Anyone else?
'Only then did you know that you'd got the better of the things that had happened to you: when you controlled the story rather than it controlling you.'
I'm struggling with the excruciatingness of Julian's public confessions. Anyone else?
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The border is a rusted hinge that does not bend.
The border is the blood clot in the river’s vein.
The border is a handshake that becomes a squeezing contest.
-Alberto Ríos
from “The Border: A Double Sonnet” (2015)
#everynightapoem
The border is the blood clot in the river’s vein.
The border is a handshake that becomes a squeezing contest.
-Alberto Ríos
from “The Border: A Double Sonnet” (2015)
#everynightapoem
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The border is a rusted hinge that does not bend.
The border is the blood clot in the river’s vein.
The border is a handshake that becomes a squeezing contest.
-Alberto Ríos
from “The Border: A Double Sonnet” (2015)
#everynightapoem
The border is the blood clot in the river’s vein.
The border is a handshake that becomes a squeezing contest.
-Alberto Ríos
from “The Border: A Double Sonnet” (2015)
#everynightapoem
#rachelcusktogether
Dogs again.
'You had a child but actually what you needed was a dog, something that would love you & obey you but would never say a word, because the thing about a dog...is that no matter what you do o it, it will never ever be able to talk back.' Thinking of poor Lilli et al.
Dogs again.
'You had a child but actually what you needed was a dog, something that would love you & obey you but would never say a word, because the thing about a dog...is that no matter what you do o it, it will never ever be able to talk back.' Thinking of poor Lilli et al.
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
#rachelcusktogether
Dogs again.
'You had a child but actually what you needed was a dog, something that would love you & obey you but would never say a word, because the thing about a dog...is that no matter what you do o it, it will never ever be able to talk back.' Thinking of poor Lilli et al.
Dogs again.
'You had a child but actually what you needed was a dog, something that would love you & obey you but would never say a word, because the thing about a dog...is that no matter what you do o it, it will never ever be able to talk back.' Thinking of poor Lilli et al.
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“That mysteries can become more mysterious if you think about them with precision and method, he did not yet know.”
—— Cees Nooteboom, Rituals (tr. Adrienne Dixon)
#sundaysentence
—— Cees Nooteboom, Rituals (tr. Adrienne Dixon)
#sundaysentence
November 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
“That mysteries can become more mysterious if you think about them with precision and method, he did not yet know.”
—— Cees Nooteboom, Rituals (tr. Adrienne Dixon)
#sundaysentence
—— Cees Nooteboom, Rituals (tr. Adrienne Dixon)
#sundaysentence
#rachelcusktogether
Outline was built around a writing course, and now it seems Transit has a key moment if not a central plot element of a writing festival. Another regular device for Cusk? Just like housebuilders have recognisable layouts, maybe Cusk has common elements in her narratives.
Outline was built around a writing course, and now it seems Transit has a key moment if not a central plot element of a writing festival. Another regular device for Cusk? Just like housebuilders have recognisable layouts, maybe Cusk has common elements in her narratives.
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#rachelcusktogether
Outline was built around a writing course, and now it seems Transit has a key moment if not a central plot element of a writing festival. Another regular device for Cusk? Just like housebuilders have recognisable layouts, maybe Cusk has common elements in her narratives.
Outline was built around a writing course, and now it seems Transit has a key moment if not a central plot element of a writing festival. Another regular device for Cusk? Just like housebuilders have recognisable layouts, maybe Cusk has common elements in her narratives.
#rachelcusktogether
When the boy shatters the glass and shoots out through the doorway into the dark, I can't help of dogs gone by, eg Lilli and Trixie. All three made a bid for freedom. It's becoming a (too?) familiar trope in Cusk's writing.
When the boy shatters the glass and shoots out through the doorway into the dark, I can't help of dogs gone by, eg Lilli and Trixie. All three made a bid for freedom. It's becoming a (too?) familiar trope in Cusk's writing.
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
#rachelcusktogether
When the boy shatters the glass and shoots out through the doorway into the dark, I can't help of dogs gone by, eg Lilli and Trixie. All three made a bid for freedom. It's becoming a (too?) familiar trope in Cusk's writing.
When the boy shatters the glass and shoots out through the doorway into the dark, I can't help of dogs gone by, eg Lilli and Trixie. All three made a bid for freedom. It's becoming a (too?) familiar trope in Cusk's writing.
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
#rachelcusktogether
'I said I'm a hairdresser...not a psychologist.'
Most of Cusk's major characters are budding psychologists, whatever their trade or profession may be.
What I find attractive about her world is that everyone, anyone can be philosophical and have psychological insight.
'I said I'm a hairdresser...not a psychologist.'
Most of Cusk's major characters are budding psychologists, whatever their trade or profession may be.
What I find attractive about her world is that everyone, anyone can be philosophical and have psychological insight.
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
#rachelcusktogether
'I said I'm a hairdresser...not a psychologist.'
Most of Cusk's major characters are budding psychologists, whatever their trade or profession may be.
What I find attractive about her world is that everyone, anyone can be philosophical and have psychological insight.
'I said I'm a hairdresser...not a psychologist.'
Most of Cusk's major characters are budding psychologists, whatever their trade or profession may be.
What I find attractive about her world is that everyone, anyone can be philosophical and have psychological insight.
A funny-serious story from my youth, prompted by the passing of Jimmy Cliff wellhousecircle.substack.com/p/the-harder...
The harder they fall - farewell, Jimmy Cliff
What does Jimmy Cliff have to do with yoga and Feldenkrais?
wellhousecircle.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A funny-serious story from my youth, prompted by the passing of Jimmy Cliff wellhousecircle.substack.com/p/the-harder...
#rachelcusktogether
Dale paints her hair strand by strand while he talks about the lines of coke neatly arranged on the table. No angles here. Perfect synchronicity of the inner story and the outer task.
Dale paints her hair strand by strand while he talks about the lines of coke neatly arranged on the table. No angles here. Perfect synchronicity of the inner story and the outer task.
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Dale paints her hair strand by strand while he talks about the lines of coke neatly arranged on the table. No angles here. Perfect synchronicity of the inner story and the outer task.
Dale paints her hair strand by strand while he talks about the lines of coke neatly arranged on the table. No angles here. Perfect synchronicity of the inner story and the outer task.
#rachelcusktogether
'What's it called when you have one of those bloody great blinding flashes of insight that changes the way you look at things?' She is really unhelpful, doesn't share any of the words that spring to mind. Surely it's epiphany!
'What's it called when you have one of those bloody great blinding flashes of insight that changes the way you look at things?' She is really unhelpful, doesn't share any of the words that spring to mind. Surely it's epiphany!
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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'What's it called when you have one of those bloody great blinding flashes of insight that changes the way you look at things?' She is really unhelpful, doesn't share any of the words that spring to mind. Surely it's epiphany!
'What's it called when you have one of those bloody great blinding flashes of insight that changes the way you look at things?' She is really unhelpful, doesn't share any of the words that spring to mind. Surely it's epiphany!
#rachelcusktogether
I stopped going to hairdressers partly because I couldn't stand the conversation. What's your next holiday? What are you doing this weekend? Just like the writing icebreaker in Outline, the hairdresser conversation is unrealistically profound! Would I lived in Cusk's world.
I stopped going to hairdressers partly because I couldn't stand the conversation. What's your next holiday? What are you doing this weekend? Just like the writing icebreaker in Outline, the hairdresser conversation is unrealistically profound! Would I lived in Cusk's world.
November 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
#rachelcusktogether
I stopped going to hairdressers partly because I couldn't stand the conversation. What's your next holiday? What are you doing this weekend? Just like the writing icebreaker in Outline, the hairdresser conversation is unrealistically profound! Would I lived in Cusk's world.
I stopped going to hairdressers partly because I couldn't stand the conversation. What's your next holiday? What are you doing this weekend? Just like the writing icebreaker in Outline, the hairdresser conversation is unrealistically profound! Would I lived in Cusk's world.
#rachelcusktogether
Her point is true. 'the first thing people sometimes did with their freedom was to find another version of the thing that had imprisoned them.' If you're going round & round through the revolving door, you're not free, you're stuck in a pleasure-pain cycle.
Her point is true. 'the first thing people sometimes did with their freedom was to find another version of the thing that had imprisoned them.' If you're going round & round through the revolving door, you're not free, you're stuck in a pleasure-pain cycle.
November 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
#rachelcusktogether
Her point is true. 'the first thing people sometimes did with their freedom was to find another version of the thing that had imprisoned them.' If you're going round & round through the revolving door, you're not free, you're stuck in a pleasure-pain cycle.
Her point is true. 'the first thing people sometimes did with their freedom was to find another version of the thing that had imprisoned them.' If you're going round & round through the revolving door, you're not free, you're stuck in a pleasure-pain cycle.
#rachelcusktogether
Dale says the party life 'is basically repetitive. It doesn't get you anywhere & it isn't meant to, because what it represents is freedom...And to stay free...you have to reject change.' Hmmm...That kind of life is yet another enslavement, addiction. Freedom embraces change.
Dale says the party life 'is basically repetitive. It doesn't get you anywhere & it isn't meant to, because what it represents is freedom...And to stay free...you have to reject change.' Hmmm...That kind of life is yet another enslavement, addiction. Freedom embraces change.
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
#rachelcusktogether
Dale says the party life 'is basically repetitive. It doesn't get you anywhere & it isn't meant to, because what it represents is freedom...And to stay free...you have to reject change.' Hmmm...That kind of life is yet another enslavement, addiction. Freedom embraces change.
Dale says the party life 'is basically repetitive. It doesn't get you anywhere & it isn't meant to, because what it represents is freedom...And to stay free...you have to reject change.' Hmmm...That kind of life is yet another enslavement, addiction. Freedom embraces change.
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Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record.
@independentsage.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
@independentsage.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record.
@independentsage.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
@independentsage.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
#rachelcusktogether
'Even if it's not what you naturally are, he said, I think you'll look more real than way.'
More real than nature intended or more real than other artificial options?
I'll choose natural over looking more real artificially, any day!
'Even if it's not what you naturally are, he said, I think you'll look more real than way.'
More real than nature intended or more real than other artificial options?
I'll choose natural over looking more real artificially, any day!
November 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
#rachelcusktogether
'Even if it's not what you naturally are, he said, I think you'll look more real than way.'
More real than nature intended or more real than other artificial options?
I'll choose natural over looking more real artificially, any day!
'Even if it's not what you naturally are, he said, I think you'll look more real than way.'
More real than nature intended or more real than other artificial options?
I'll choose natural over looking more real artificially, any day!
#rachelcusktogether
'What's so terrible about looking like what you are?'
I didn't know...but it was obviously somethingn a lot of people feared.
Go for it, Dale, & you'll go right out of business. You should be a therapist not a hairdresser. Is Transit about people who are in the wrong jobs?!
'What's so terrible about looking like what you are?'
I didn't know...but it was obviously somethingn a lot of people feared.
Go for it, Dale, & you'll go right out of business. You should be a therapist not a hairdresser. Is Transit about people who are in the wrong jobs?!
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
#rachelcusktogether
'What's so terrible about looking like what you are?'
I didn't know...but it was obviously somethingn a lot of people feared.
Go for it, Dale, & you'll go right out of business. You should be a therapist not a hairdresser. Is Transit about people who are in the wrong jobs?!
'What's so terrible about looking like what you are?'
I didn't know...but it was obviously somethingn a lot of people feared.
Go for it, Dale, & you'll go right out of business. You should be a therapist not a hairdresser. Is Transit about people who are in the wrong jobs?!
#rachelcusktogether
'We're talking about your natural authority'.
Love it - grey hair is indeed a sign of natural authority and sagedom. People chase youth, what they are no longer, a false authority.
'We're talking about your natural authority'.
Love it - grey hair is indeed a sign of natural authority and sagedom. People chase youth, what they are no longer, a false authority.
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
#rachelcusktogether
'We're talking about your natural authority'.
Love it - grey hair is indeed a sign of natural authority and sagedom. People chase youth, what they are no longer, a false authority.
'We're talking about your natural authority'.
Love it - grey hair is indeed a sign of natural authority and sagedom. People chase youth, what they are no longer, a false authority.
#rachelcusktogether
'In fact, where hair was concerned,,,the fake generally seemed to be more real than the real: so long as what they saw in the mirror wasn't the product of nature, it didn't seem to matter to most people'
Inditement of our world. So glad to live in the countryside.
'In fact, where hair was concerned,,,the fake generally seemed to be more real than the real: so long as what they saw in the mirror wasn't the product of nature, it didn't seem to matter to most people'
Inditement of our world. So glad to live in the countryside.
November 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
#rachelcusktogether
'In fact, where hair was concerned,,,the fake generally seemed to be more real than the real: so long as what they saw in the mirror wasn't the product of nature, it didn't seem to matter to most people'
Inditement of our world. So glad to live in the countryside.
'In fact, where hair was concerned,,,the fake generally seemed to be more real than the real: so long as what they saw in the mirror wasn't the product of nature, it didn't seem to matter to most people'
Inditement of our world. So glad to live in the countryside.