NOTEBOOK

Reflections from Poets in Residence Andy Jackson and Emilie Collyer from the [IN]Visible Libraries project at the State Library of Victoria

I love the frankness of this writer and how she seeks to bring into question the ways KINDNESS can be seen as a single action rather than a giving of yourself to another. There's a RECIPROCITY in genuine kindness, it requires a willingness to offer assistance and then a LISTENING to the shape that any required assistance might take.

This article opened some really interesting ideas for me around the way we INvite and HOST gatherings and events within the arts and beyond. It re_imagines how we can invite people to gather and through this gathering experience diverse ways of being. It invites us to create spaces, that enable stronger relationships to difference by experiencing the joy of being IN these social relationships.

These are the words that caught my attention when I first came across this article. I wrote them into a notebook I had bought to begin a new collaboration with a writer living with disability. Her health often disAbles her desire to meet the work fully each week, with her actual capacity on any given day fluctuating from week to week; so we adapt.