On resisting and persisting AGAIN

On resisting and persisting AGAIN

I am probably still in shock writing this. Yesterday was a horrific day. There are no words that could sum up the feeling of seeing the election being called ......
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Thoughts on election day (lots of swearing)

Thoughts on election day (lots of swearing)

I got to vote in two countries this year, and the stakes couldn't have felt higher each time. Someone on Twitter said that today feels like Christmas Eve - in hell. And I couldn't agree more. The time difference has never felt so cruel. I don't want to stay up all night, but I still have PTSD from waking up in 2016 at 3am to see the news. I wish I could somehow switch off from it all, I know it would help my mental health, but I too much is resting on this election. And though I feel exhausted I still have fucks to give.

Here are just a few: (Rant incoming and if you don't like swearing stop reading.)

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Bev Grant's photograph of WITCHES gathered to protest on Wall Street.

The W.I.T.C.H. Movement

Have you ever heard of the W.I.T.C.H. movement of the late 1960s? I hadn't, and was surprised I hadn't. My mum was involved in the feminist movement, but this was relatively...
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Sarah Day wears her new Crone necklace

Owning the CRONE!

It’s hard to keep telling yourself that you are ‘aging beautifully’ or rightfully, or that there is any value at all in aging, when as a culture, we really don’t put much value on wisdom or lived experience.

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On letting go

On letting go

Before my senior year of university, I spent a summer back home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, flipping burgers in a kitchen by day and waitressing at Applebees (think TJI Fridays) by night. One evening towards the end of the summer I went over to introduce myself to a couple who just been sat in my section. 

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Wear and Resist is now solar powered? Solar panels on the roof of Apsley Barn.

Solar-powered! 🌞 and a bit about our house journey

I'm so pleased to announce that Wear and Resist is now solar-powered!  Wear and Resist is now runing on solar energy. Matt (my husband) has fitted more than a few solar...
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Sarah and Eliza Day at the 15th anniversary celebration of Women for Refugee Women

Love as a radical act? Thoughts on the refugee crisis

Yesterday morning I was driving through the rain listening to the presenters on the Today Programme on the BBC trying their best to wind us all up about refugees housed...
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Sarah Day, Founder of Wear and Resist wears a Persist necklace.

On Keeping Going

I hate selling.

There I’ve said it. I spend a lot of time wondering how I got into the business of selling when it’s not something I’ve ever been good at. I had a summer job in London when I was 19 – cold-calling offices to sell them double-sided typewriter ribbons (yes I’m that old). I think I lasted three days.

It’s a hard time for selling right now. A lot of us aren’t quite sure how we are going to pay our bills this winter. I usually trust my gut to read the room when I’m coming up with new designs or trying to do a bit of ‘marketing’ (another term that gives me the cold shakes), but I haven’t bought myself anything very treaty or nice in ages. So it’s not easy trying to figure out what to say. I don’t want to use payment plans like Klarna because I don’t want you to buy my designs unless you can afford them and they will brighten up your life, or if you’re buying a gift - a friend’s life in some way.

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On Being Brave, thoughts on life and mortality

On Being Brave, thoughts on life and mortality

I originally designed this bracelet for a beautiful young woman – using her mother's words from near the end of her life. Her father read from the notebook she had kept at her funeral. She’d been in pain and on a lot of drugs, so they were disparate thoughts, lists and memories, but interspersed throughout: the phrase 'be brave,' again and again, like a mantra to herself, and finally right near the end, 'be brave, it's supposed to be hard.' ...

An image of Jo running from Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Little Women.

On Running and Little Women

Nearly a year ago we went to see Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Little Women on Boxing Day. I was sceptical, sat in the plush seats of the Oxford Playhouse. I...
RESIST - What's in a word - Feb 28 2016

RESIST - What's in a word - Feb 28 2016

At a festival last summer, my daughter and I wandered into the Healing Field in search of cake – and after sharing an oversized brownie while watching a decidedly hung...
Sarah Day, the founder of Wear and Resist wears a Persist necklace

Nevertheless she persisted - June 25th 2018

I drove home early this morning from London where I had spent yesterday accompanying my mother to the hospital. She has only recently found out she has stage 4 lung...