Hope for August’s Farewell

Written By Ned Mullen

Feeling a little perkier in myself going through the exit weeks of this month. I was absofruitly hitting a point of burnout at the end of the summer smorgasbord of life and now I have had a second to breathe before launching into the coming Autumn season I realise I have been running full tilt without stopping to recharge. Do you ever feel that way? It’s hard, being human in the world we are in now. To balance and be all the things and live fully, breathe deeply, stay hydrated, spill the tea but don’t gossip, workout regularly but don’t fat shame, eat well but intuitively but also don’t eat piggishly, stand up for yourself but don’t be bossy, consume and buy all the latest things to present your truest self to the world but don’t be obsessed with money. Gosh it’s so darn much. There surely has to be a slowdown coming for us all, it’s coming for me I feel it. I am teetering on the edge of something, not quite there yet but I feel it around the corner and I am ready to FALL (pun intended American friends( into the next chapter of my beingness in my kinda boring but fully lived life.

Reads

I just finished this article recently and at first I was hesitant about sharing it. I would consider myself to be a private person when it comes to sharing some of my personally held, specific spiritual and metaphysical views on the world. I prefer to listen and reflect rather than demonstrate and inform. However, I just read this vitally important piece of writing from a writer I really respect and I felt it needed to be shared. Where we are at as humanity is a point of absolute breakage and, we have either an opportunity to restore and reconnect with something that preceded our current form of global identity and the fulcrum we have built our cultural worship around or, we will continue on this path to our own detriment.

  1. The Language of the Master: Words vs. the Machine published originally six years ago on The Abbey of Misrule. It is still so, if not more so, painfully relevant today. Sometimes I feel as if I am going insane, that perhaps I am the problem who can’t seem to be at peace with the proceedings and developments of society at large. This is a long read and challenging at times but really thought provoking and a. good one to dissect with any friends you may have who love a good chin wag about ideas and all the stuff that makes up life.


    Anyways, I preordered the upcoming book release from Mr. Kingsnorth (how epic is that name) and I can’t wait to bury myself in it come September.

    Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth at Barnes & Noble

Bants

  1. I recently tried a water sports activity. Well several, but one of note which was mysteriously called ‘inner tubing’. Probably because when you are partaking your insides are squirreling their way out of your body while you cling for dear life to a puffed up life raft of sorts. Anyways please enjoy this photo of me, the elation on my face is simply a mask to perform for the others as if I was the most confident water athlete around. Also it was taken before I quelled with the god of water using only my wrists and fingers to claim my right to remain alive. I did not grow up with access to cool lake things like boating and lazing on a dock for hours drinking, watching the sunset and hopping on my jetski to cruise over to the neighbors. I liked it very much, what must one do to be a certified ‘lake freak’? Do I need to put up one of those signs in my house saying “This way to the Lake” or “Live, Laugh, Lake”? Stay tuned….

2.) Here’s a little feel good video to lift the spirits. CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THIS CAT IS SO GOSHDARN BEAUTIFUL? Also, I think this is just what I need to feel better about life, to be clothed in satin and jewels and told I am purrrrfect.

Let’s throw another pet related video in for good measure because sometimes you just need to watch silly, cute, animal related content to realise there is more to life than humans.

Eats

I havnt’t been cooking as much this summer. That’s the honest truth, I have been working so much that whatever food I can scrape together for my toddler to refuse to eat anyway has seemed to just be the flavour of this season I am in. Balancing the plates and keeping myself out of the trenches of overwhelm has meant that when I am home I am grasping at straws with managing a household. One food thing I did make that she seemed to somewhat enjoy and is relatively easy was Chicken Orzo Tomato Soup. So nourishing, cheap and felt like a true autumn dish even though we are in a heatwave and it’s a zillion billion degrees of fire here in Southern California. It’s basically just chicken, a little heavy cream or half and half or milk,and some orzo (which is a fun pasta for kids) and that’s it. It says to use tomato paste but I think I may not have had any and just used a large can of either diced or crushed tomatoes. It’s all the same right? Is it all the same?

You will notice I took a rather long, extended break from writing. Like many, I am teetering between wanting to share, create and make for all the world to see, and also running away from any and all engagement with anyone other than my immediate familia. Hopefully, I can keep this up because I think somewhere somehow there might be one person who enjoys my idiotic digital babbling. So HI TO YOU BELOVED READER WHOMEVER YOU MAY BE and feck off to every else :P

Ned Mullen
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