Agnieszka Wolsoncroft

by Agnieszka Wolsoncroft #freedom #joy #gratitude I want to tell you something I almost didn't write about. For a long time I didn't think it was the kind of story people needed to hear from me. I have written about gratitude and adoption and leaving one life for another. I have written about grief and joy and the long blue sky over Perth. Cigarettes didn't seem to fit the picture I was painting. But then I remembered something from the first newsletter I ever sent: hiding your story...

by Agnieszka Wolsoncroft #yellagongapark #perth #westernaustralia #memories Last week, on the 29th of September, we marked ten years since we landed in Perth. I have been thinking about how to write this, because it is not a simple story. It is not a story of leaving something behind, or of arriving somewhere new. It is a story about what happens when you keep saying yes — to life, to change, to the terrifying and wonderful possibility that the next chapter might be the best one yet. So let...

by Agnieszka Wolsoncroft Anya's favourite time of the day - story time! #reading #grateful #childhood There are words that inform us, and words that carry us. The words we find in textbooks and reports and instructions tell us things we need to know. But the words we keep coming back to — the ones that stay long after the book is closed, the ones we copy into journals and whisper to ourselves in quiet moments — those words do something different. They hold us. They reframe the thing we're...