LiLi @ Cherry Tree Walk

aka @gobrightly, they/them · A CROW IS NOT A BLACKBIRD via my site · Writer & Workshop Facilitator. Coach. Tree witch/nerd. Amateur birder. 🏳️‍🌈✊🏿

[Haule Daniel @HauleDaniel1]

Ms Flora Mutuku presenting at the #BARAZASwahili2024 on Grasping for Ghosts: A search for Indigenous East African Cloth @SOAS
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#BarazaSOAS
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[LiLi @ Cherry Tree Walk @cherrytree_walk]

@taniahershman @cultpens Hahaha, you're welcome! 📑✍🏿

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Celebrate the nature of #Deptford with @LauraHannahBar & @cherrytree_walk
Lili K. Bright for a free day of creativity & writing workshops exploring nature, climate & science in @BrookmillPark as part of #DeptfordLitFest.
Sat 18 March.
Book now: https://t.co/tJbZsJXMHa

[LiLi @ Cherry Tree Walk @cherrytree_walk]

@SafiyaKamaria We loved discussing your book tonight! 😍

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Lovely start to the second part of our Nature Nurtures workshop with @WildLondon at the Centre for Wildlife Gardening. Writer and artists @LauraHannahBar and @cherrytree_walk are leading a workshop on all things poetry and trees.

[LiLi @ Cherry Tree Walk @cherrytree_walk]

@WGTMove @actbuildchange The form link in the tweet doesn't seem to be working. But going via the first link in this list did work for me: https://t.co/SOyxg7LMu2

[Adam@EcoCounts @ecocounts_adam]

This is a good article on the basics of keeping warm https://t.co/lTCvXsE38M #EnergyCrisis

[Roger Robinson @rrobinson72]

You’ve got to trust in your ideas.
#vision #art #practice #work #creativity

[LiLi @ Cherry Tree Walk @cherrytree_walk]

@IndieBookshopUK Start More Than You Can Finish by @BeckyBlades2

Waiting for Ted by @MariekeBigg

Loving them both, excited for what's next in my book piles too! 📚

[LiLi @ Cherry Tree Walk @cherrytree_walk]

@RebTamas I lead nature writing workshops outdoors with different organisations and working with mental health collective @miseryparty_.

And fingers crossed for project applications in a medical setting and with older people.

[LiLi @ Cherry Tree Walk @cherrytree_walk]

Making task lists helps me except when it doesn't cos I get overwhelmed by huge lists.

Can't remember where I saw this but making lists of 7 has been helping loads.

Just a 7 item list.
(Sometimes do brain dump first.)

& I get to choose what I want to do first/next from the 7.

[LiLi @ Cherry Tree Walk @cherrytree_walk]

@SNeurotypicals I get this too.

Reading a book called Start More Than You Finish is helping me a lot.

Also, reminding myself that if it's worth doing it's worth doing half-assed.

I know it's an executive functioning, task initiating thing.

Might start calling it the hydra challenge.

[LiLi @ Cherry Tree Walk @cherrytree_walk]

I love this!

I find done lists really helpful too, but I often forget that.

Gonna start one for the kitchen today.

[Sonja Johanson @sonjajohanson]

@SNeurotypicals I’ve recently started doing a “reverse to-do list” and it has really helped me w this. My rule is that I have to do 5 chores a day. Any chore, big or small, anything counts. The key is that I write the chore on a big chart AFTER I complete it. 1/

[Michael L. Davenport @valacosa]

@SNeurotypicals "There were so many tasks I needed to do! So, as a compromise, I did absolutely nothing while angsting the whole time"

#AuDHD

[LiLi @ Cherry Tree Walk @cherrytree_walk]

@anglemaece @SNeurotypicals Yes, yes, yes! This!!!

[LiLi @ Cherry Tree Walk @cherrytree_walk]

@SNeurotypicals I get this too.

Reading a book called Start More Than You Finish is helping me a lot.

Also, reminding myself that if it's worth doing it's worth doing half-assed.

I know it's an executive functioning, task initiating thing.

Might start calling it the hydra challenge.

[LiLi @ Cherry Tree Walk @cherrytree_walk]

Now I get round this by repeating to myself the 3 or 4 things I need before I leave, like filling my water bottle, grabbing my notebook, putting my shoes on... until I get outside.

Sounds like: water, notebook, shoes X lots.

And then when I'm outside I decide where to go 🤣

[LiLi @ Cherry Tree Walk @cherrytree_walk]

Noticed I was having a similar thing with leaving the house (for years but only realised recently), but more like I have all these decisions to make about where to go & what to do, and estimations about my capacity & spoons, that I feel I need to work out first, overwhelming.

[LiLi @ Cherry Tree Walk @cherrytree_walk]

And I really appreciate enjoying lovely textures more; like, the "right" kinds of velvet are just so lovely 😍

My Schlafzimmer is basically a nest of synthetic velvet and brushed cotton.

[LiLi @ Cherry Tree Walk @cherrytree_walk]

Noticed similar with ADHD — loud sounds bother me way more this year.

Got reusable earplugs, they help lots; don't know how I'd cope otherwise!

Also, enjoy lovely textures more & tolerate yucky ones less lately.

No idea how much it's ⬆️ sensitivity / ⬆️ awareness / ⬇️ masking.

[𝙷𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝙵𝚎𝚛𝚗🌱 @AutBrainDump]

#AskingAutistics Have your sensory issues got worse with age? There are a lot of things I can't tolerate at age 40 that I coped with in my 20s. Is this a natural part of ageing as an #autistic person?