JOURNAL
Window is a journal Maria Amidu started in January 2015, it is a repository for her random musings on significant and insignificant things
Lemonade
(28th April 2016) you try to think the best of people but this can be a challenge: bus driver parked badly, I got off the bus, I bashed my head on the wing mirror, it really hurt, I am standing rubbing my bashed head, then I register a horn tooting, I turn thinking it is the driver wanting to apologise, it is the driver, he gestures with contemptuous indignation for me to readjust his wing mirror......I am trying not to take this personally but the way I look and the way he looks this is very difficult, post Lemonade I feel a particularly acute sense of hurt and outrage, I suspect this bus driver read Piers Morgan's article, and not this one: Ijeoma Oluo
plastic cows
(4th June 2015) in all the years I travelled up north and back again I never did see the plastic cows
exhaustion
twenty first century life, all status and acquisition, it is exhausting and feels very unnecessary
The Wander Society
I read The Wander Society this weekend by Keri Smith (who has a very interesting practice) and wondered if the society ever makes reference to the people who still live by ancient, nomadic principles… also wondered about the social factors excluding so many people from this freedom to roam - Trayvon Martin and far, far too many others