Be Curious #11 - 23 April 2025
Anticipation
Welcome to Be Curious, a newsletter where I take stock of life - internally, externally and on paper, and share with you the things that have captured my eye.
This week, our plans for transitions have switched gears into anticipation. Our home was listed for sale yesterday and, once we have sold, I will then travel to our new home city to look for (and hopefully purchase) our new bubble.
Bubble? Well, yes. For us, our home is our bubble - our safe space where we can relax, be our whole and full selves without fear of judgment or critique and surround ourselves with the things and people who contribute to that comfort.
For us, our home is sacred, so opening it to the public is a moment of bravery and releasing our fears to hope. Hope the right buyer is waiting in the wings, with the money we would like to begin our new chapter with. Hope that they will love this place as much as we have for the past five years.
With this anticipation also comes flux, which is not my favourite space to live in. We don’t know yet when we will move. We don’t have anywhere to move to, yet. There is risk that the right new home for us will not present itself at the right time.
As someone who likes to have control, at least over my own life, this is challenging. However, there is an opportunity here too, to trust and believe that this move is right on time and things will transpire just as they’re meant to do. I am trying to really lean into that; there is so much happening in my life and out in the world that I cannot control and I work hard not to let that overwhelm me. This. This move: it will be as it is supposed to.
Reading
Over the Easter weekend, I finished reading the wonderful novel Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser. It has made the shortlist for the Stella Prize and now that I’ve read it, I can see why. It’s beautifully written.
THEORY & PRACTICE by Michelle de Kretser
At 183 pages, Theory & Practice is a novel from two-time Miles Franklin Award winner Michelle de Kretser. A unique combination of fiction intertwined, undoubtably, with memoir, Theory & Practice is s…
Recent Substack reads I enjoyed
I have read a bunch of really great posts from authors around the world recently. You might like them too.
I absolutely never need an excuse to share the gorgeous Holly Ringland’s work with you, but this interview with Austin Kleon of Steal Like an Artist fame, is a good’un.
A really fun interview from Petya K. Grady with Erika Veurink.
A really cool approach to determining what comes next…
And this one, which really hit home.
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Until next time,
Thanks for the shout out Kat! I am actively chasing some of your recs!