107. Including The Parrot That Said 'I Love You' 🦜
Friends,
Just quick - the Isle of Skye may just be one of the most beautiful places I have visited in my whole life. This print above caught my eye in a wonderfully teeny weeny shop in Portree and you can find the artist here.
Good morning friends,
I hope this email finds you jetting off to a sunny location with a secret lover no-one knows about yet.
Here’s three things you may find interesting and/or meaningful.
1. A Hero’s Journey 🚏
I came across this exact phrase in 2 different books this week so naturally I’m sharing her here now with you. Kinda apt as I myself have been embarking on a journey of my own these last two years.
Full description: here.
Summary:
“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow (wo)man.”
Love that!
Think about what your own version of a hero’s journey looks like.
2. Home from Home 🏠
This beautiful b&b making me want to disappear to a foreign country and run my own.
The photos!
3. On Forgiveness 🕊️
I’ve been reading and re-reading this newsletter post since Christmas - it’s about forgiveness, an arsehole of a father, how it happens and how incredibly magical it feels once you do. I have my own version of this story but this one was far more eloquent and easier to read.
This paragraph especially. For all my friends who have grown up with alcoholics as parents, I am sure you can relate:
"[W]e lived life from the standpoint of victims. Having an overdeveloped sense of responsibility, we preferred to be concerned with others rather than ourselves. We got guilt feelings when we stood up for ourselves rather than giving in to others. Thus, we became reactors, rather than actors, letting others take the initiative. We were dependent personalities, terrified of abandonment, willing to do almost anything to hold on to a relationship in order not to be abandoned emotionally. Yet we kept choosing insecure relationships because they matched our childhood relationship with alcoholic or dysfunctional parents."
See you next Sunday.