Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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What I’ve been reading: The Shadow of the Wind
It’s been a while since anything – literary or otherwise – has really inspired me to write. Even longer since I can say a story has really gripped me and offered something a little different to my normal library fare. The Shadow of the Wind did both of those things. Sure it’s one of the…
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Me, myself and I(mposter Syndrome)
Spending an eternity deleting and rewriting the opening sentence of this piece feels like the most apt way I could have started this blog. When it comes to my little internet corner, I often feel a bit imposter-esque. After all, despite my lived experience who am I to tell people about mental health? Never mind…
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What I’ve been reading: Small Pleasures
I know we’re pretty far into 2022 now, but it would be rude not to start off by saying Happy New Year! However, I will be the first to put my hands up and say, this has probably been the most January-y January of my entire life and I can’t wait for it to be…
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What I’ve been reading: October
Well. It’s been a minute. Safe to say that since lockdown disappeared into the ether, my social life has simultaneously rematerialised. Ironic, really, that my last post was all about my hermit life. However, since I’ve been plunged back into a temporary isolation ahead of a hospital appointment, now seems like as good a time…
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Confessions of a lockdown hermit
This time last year, if you’d said to me we’d STILL be in lockdown in over a year’s time, I wouldn’t have believed you. I, like many others, was a Covid-sceptic when it started popping up on the news way back when in 2019. That’s not to say I didn’t believe in it – I’m…
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A case of lockdown blues
I’m not going to lie, this blog is a real struggle. I’ve sat here watching that blinking cursor for hours trying to just get any words I like down on the page. For the past month or so, I’ve felt completely stagnant; no ideas, no motivation, no creativity. No points for guessing that the lockdown…
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What I’ve been reading: December
If anyone was hoping for better times in 2021, they will have been sorely disappointed with the first week of the new year. With Lockdown 3.0, Brexit and the teeny, tiny issue of a would-be coup on the US Capitol in the space of just seven days, there’s not much to feel positive about just…
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What I’ve been reading: November
Sometimes you read something so good it makes you feel inadequate as a writer. Whether it’s a really insightful article, an amazing piece of fiction or a new and original viewpoint on something that you would never have thought of yourself, there’s just something about the turn of phrase, the fluidity of the writing or…
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What I’ve been reading: October
I have no words to start this block, except this: where did 2020 go? I’m looking at the word “October” as I write this and it’s just hit me that it’s well and truly the end of the year. Like many other people, I promised myself back in March that I would do more with…
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What I’ve been reading: September
As I write this, it’s safe to say the rain has well and truly set in – happy autumn everybody! Whilst there’s many things I don’t like about a rainy October, one thing I do like is the chance to snuggle in to my little nest, listen to the rain on my skylight and settle…
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