How to swallow an elephant?
The Muse Letter No.5
These days life feels like double-exposure. One moment you’re all caught up in worries, the next you’re grateful for every single thing, counting your blessings. Layering over another and another and another.
Like pancakes: Good.
Blue and yellow: Green.
Tectonic plates: Earthquake.
Cardigans: Very essential in Scotland.
It’s hard to grasp the good moments as they only seem apparent when nothing has changed yet still my mood goes dim. AND even though I try to remind myself in these moments that in fact nothing has actually changed - we are still in a pandemic - but suddenly I just feel bad about it. Like a toddler changing their mind about what their favourite colour is every other minute based on absolutely no fucking reason. It just is.
For this weeks Muse Letter we ignore that now. For a moment. That we actually don’t feel like reading, writing or doing anything except thinking about what to eat next, napping and singing:
I sleep in late
Another day
Oh what a wonder
Oh what a waste.
from Courtney Barnetts genius song “Avant Gardener”.
(Sidenote: This cover by Gordi is absolutely to die for. )