My family keeps photographs
The Remembering Project Sidonie Henbest The Remembering Project Sidonie Henbest

My family keeps photographs

Recently, I’ve started the monumental task of sorting through our photos – now numbering in thousands – and working out what is there. Who is there. And some of its easy, and jolts back memories of my life, presumed missing or lost.  Some is fuzzy – traces of familiar places or faces, but not names. And some is impossible. Photos of places I know my parents visited when they were first together. People who seemed cherished, loved even. People who look like other people.

A piece written to mark the 17th anniversary of my mother’s death as part of The Remembering Project.

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I SPENT LAST WEEK IN THE BALI RAINFOREST ON A NATURE AND YOGA RETREAT. PLEASE DON’T ASK ME IF I’M RELAXED.
Bigger thoughts Sidonie Henbest Bigger thoughts Sidonie Henbest

I SPENT LAST WEEK IN THE BALI RAINFOREST ON A NATURE AND YOGA RETREAT. PLEASE DON’T ASK ME IF I’M RELAXED.

Before you are like all “b*tch please, you just spent a week doing yoga and meditation in pristine rainforest eating organic food lovingly prepared from scratch each day… “, hear me out… There is something in our preoccupation with being relaxed that I suspect causes us more harm than good.

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