Diana
Stained
Me, I was raised a goddamned Roman Catholic. The holy water was laced with shame. Every time I anointed myself while entering and leaving...
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Diana
- Jun 30
- 1 min
To love and be loved.
What can I tell you about Andrea Gibson aka Andrew Gibby? That they floated into my heart on a paper plane called pole dancing to gospel...
Diana
- May 27
- 2 min
How to save a life (Grey's vibes; IYKYK)
16th May 2021 THE ODDS of a "six degrees of separation" kind of small world and the sense of humour that the universe has. Mona Lisa...
Diana
- May 27
- 2 min
All in vein.
20th - 21st May 2021 I think it’s safe to say that years of getting tattoos prepared me well for pin pricks and blood draws and...
Diana
- May 15
- 2 min
Bookends.
14th March 2022 The beauty of them. All the holding that they do. Ideally, and by definition, they hold/ support books, books for the...
Diana
- May 9
- 2 min
Fleeting joy
One truth, my truth, is that it comes and it goes And I don’t know when it will happen It doesn’t follow a timetable It dances to the...
Diana
- May 3
- 1 min
Seva
May 2021 Nurse-in-training, Rinku, said she wasn’t ever scared. When the pandemic first broke and the protocol had to be learned, she did...
Diana
- May 3
- 1 min
"Cha?" ("Tea?")
May 2021 Parvatbhai. What a joyful soul! He does it all! Walks in as light-footed as a cat, eyes alive, crinkly and shining; reading the...
Diana
- Apr 24
- 3 min
typing... "Alive for now! Thanks and take care!" *send*
I was so angry. When I’m angry I cry, which infuriates me even more! “TEAR DUCTS! THIS IS NOT THE TIME!!” Angry that I wasn’t permitted...
Diana
- Apr 23
- 2 min
Baa.
May 2021 This old lady. Charulataben. Baa (grandma) 82. Kind and generous and genuinely concerned and full of advice. (Side note: Yo it...
Diana
- Apr 23
- 2 min
Mona girl.
May 2021. Her name is Mona Lisa and she was told Mona Lisa was a Queen of England who never stopped smiling and that’s why she was world...
Diana
- Feb 7
- 3 min
The Side-eye Shuffle
(The illustration is of a photograph-turned-meme on the interwebs. I do not own it, cute little bum no?) I’m screaming out into the void...
Diana
- May 18, 2021
- 1 min
Positive.
27th April 2021 11:03pm Okay. So I tested positive. For Covid 19; not for a sunny disposition and cheery attitude, but for the goddamned...
Diana
- Sep 16, 2020
- 2 min
To be or not to be
I watched The Social Dilemma. It left me feeling tense and uneasy and hopeless that day. Even if we are given a good thing born of...
Diana
- Sep 10, 2020
- 2 min
You didn't ask but I'll say it anyway.
Death is not foreign. It is not an alien concept. My own; perhaps an abstract and wholly incomprehensible idea. I won't even know it when...
Diana
- Jul 29, 2020
- 1 min
The voice in my head said what?!?
Once you've seen it for what it is; you can't unsee it. You cannot undo the knowing of things. You cannot help but recognise it in its...
Diana
- Jul 27, 2020
- 1 min
Feelings.
That strange heaviness that seems as though it's seeping into every fibre of your being. Sluggish and lax. Everything slows down. You're...
Diana
- Feb 20, 2020
- 1 min
Self-sabotage Sally.
I think they call it self-sabotage. You look for the worst-case scenario, make sure you learn the ins and outs of it all. Then you plan...
Diana
- Feb 16, 2020
- 2 min
Weed out Bias.
I think some of us misunderstand what it means to be biased. We may have one friend from a marginalised community; you know, that one...
Diana
- Feb 14, 2020
- 1 min
What Do I Know?
So, this love thing. Have you heard? What about love? The opposite of hate, is it? No. Apparently hate suggests that you do, in fact,...