Rest is resistance
So why am I writing a newsletter when I could be lying in warm August grass reading clouds?
Aug 25, 2026
(approx 2-minute read)
Because newsletters build connections, and what’s life without those? (Asks the person who just stopped on a dog walk to ask if I could harvest some elderberries from a street-hanging tree, and spent two hours chatting aimlessly with a stranger.)
Hey it’s me, the water you put on your bedside table for morning-you.
Connections are how we get through life, even as introverts. So here’s my unsolicited advice:
Build relationships, not lists.
I love and celebrate the fact that the most recent posting on Tricia Hersey’s TheNapMinistry website is from November 2024. That queen is resting, as she should be. Her legacy is doing the work for her, with books and card decks. Her message lives on: Rest is resistance.
Caitlin Blunnie, she of Liberal Jane fame, has taken up the mantle and wears it proudly, creating colourful and meaningful illustrations about rest (and feminism, and 2SLGBTQIA++ rights, and accessibility, poverty, fascism, and more).
Hustle culture sucks. End-stage capitalism is about as bad as things get right before they implode—here’s hoping.
Susan Wadds (Deepam) recently shared this poem, which is truly lovely, and could be adapted to say, “i’m tired of hustle culture”
I’ll take this opportunity to (hustle) mention my client Claire Ross Dunn’s new novel, Lost in France, in which the protagonist finds the antidote to rise-and-grind life by buying a 1-euro house in a small French village. 10/10 recommend—both the book and the concept. My bags are packed.
Let’s hold flowers, not lists. Let’s hold each other in care and community, and rest radically. Let us.
How are your boundaries? Are you a brave defender of them? Do you rest well?
And now, three random pics from my roll:
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