Hello! I’m Josie George.
I’m an author and artist living in the urban West Midlands and, thanks to an atypical body, I live a very different kind of life. A slowed-down, tempestuous, restricted, imaginative, wild sort of life.
I get to make good, good things from this place.
This blog is where you’ll find some of them. Think of it as a repository for my creative experiments.
In my experiments, I explore what it is to be human. I explore joy, pain, stillness, creativity and truth-telling, going slowly, making good with what you have. I explore nature, the world around me, and what it means to really see where you are and who you are.
Sometimes I write. Sometimes I make things. Whatever I do, I like to try and take risks and try things out, right to their edges.
My experiments are how I stay awake in a world that keeps trying to put me to sleep.
That brings me nicely onto magic. You’ll find that here too. Not the pretend kind or even the esoteric kind, but something more ordinary and earthy.
Lots of things cast a kind of enchantment over us: our thoughts, the things we do and don’t do, our surroundings, the words we speak, the words we hear spoken to us. Knowing this, I like to make new spells through words and pictures. Spells that change us. Spells us that might change the world.
Disability has meant my career and my growth has needed to take a slow, deep path. I don’t get to go fast, to push ahead or make a big splash, but what I DO get to do is to sink deeply into what is, into who I am, into the world as it is, not what I think it should be.
I get to make slow beautiful things from that, and I’m just getting started.
I publish gorgeous experiments to the public feed a couple of times a month that are free for all to read.
If you love what I do, it would mean the world if you’d consider subscribing. Your subscriptions, although voluntary, are what help me to support myself and my family as I write and grow.
Subscribers also receive occasional private diary posts as little bonus. These private posts provide a more behind-the-scenes view of my small, unfolding life, my hopes, my secrets, small triumphs and struggles. If you’’d like access and can’t afford a subscription or don’t want to subscribe, that’s no problem — just contact me and ask, no explanation needed.
I really hope you’ll join me here.
Thank you.
Josie is represented by Jenny Hewson at Lutyens & Rubinstein Literary Agency. jenny@lutyensrubinstein.co.uk
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