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...