Clean on Appearance
27/08/2019 10am – 2pm: “Support worker arrived at 10am and was greeted by the consumer. They introduced themselves and the consumer showed the support worker around. Consumer was eating breakfast so SW (support worker) sat and chatted. Afterwards the consumer showed the SW what chores he will need help with such as washing as the […]
Divergent: A Poem
Divergent Counting sheep to fall asleep, In dismay, unable to slip away. Thoughts upon gestures of The sheep keep clambering At slumbers bay. The bleating echo’s lay Ephemeral, yet they stay. Dreamless sleep in waking day. The inner voice ‘Not I!’, I pray.
To One on His Back in the Dark: An Examination of the Process of Disability
Image Description: Person lying on their back in a room full of darkness, and unable to see anything forward. Kashif and I met in Glasgow, Scotland through skateboarding. The day I met Kash we went back to my flat and watched skate videos all night with Paul VX and a couple of my friends from […]
Humanize with Empathy, Not Sympathy, by asking “What are you going through?”
“The love of our neighbour in all its fullness simply means being able to say ‘what are you going through?’” What Simone Weil touches on here in her 1951 text “Waiting for God” sounds simple and straight forward. Listen to each other, share, and through that develop understanding. So why is it all too often […]