Roberta McDonnell

PhD Social Anthropology, MSc Marketing, work in Social Research. my Loves = Finters 💖 4 fab Daughters ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #Poetry 📖 #Novels📚 #Film 🎬 #DavidBowie⚡️

[Roberta McDonnell @mcdonneller]

Creativity and Social Support in #MentalHealth: Service Users' Perspectives, ...by @mcdonneller #arts http://t.co/Mlq4UOvaqy via @SlideShare

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

"Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet.
You must depend upon
affection, reading, knowledge,
skill — more of each
than you have — inspiration,
work, growing older, patience,
for patience joins time
to eternity."

Wendell Berry on how to be a poet and a complete human being: https://t.co/rL3bdjI9pw

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

An absolutely wonderful read on "poetic ecology" and the biology of wonder: https://t.co/4bhiYpvbFL

[Roberta McDonnell @mcdonneller]

@JamieLukasC @TrishaL8 @yupya12 @PaulGosling1 @JamieLukasC So sorry you are being subjected to this awful situation, I hope the authorities take control and that these terrible bigoted attitudes and actions against innocent citizens are put down 🙏

[Roberta McDonnell @mcdonneller]

@PoetDeanwilson6 @JEBooksHull I’m halfway through my copy, wonderful so far! 🙌📚

[Roberta McDonnell @mcdonneller]

@arealmofwonder @agoodconfession Oh Happy Birthday to your Granddad, Mr McCarthy, he has a wonderful cheery smile 😊

[Roberta McDonnell @mcdonneller]

@TotallyHotNI Sorry to hear this, hope we get to listen to you elsewhere soon @TotallyHotNI your kitchen disco was a treat! 🕺💃🏽🪩💛

[Dean Wilson @PoetDeanwilson6]

ASK out on June 4th available from @JEBooksHull
and available now from
https://t.co/cDaWex1zio

[Matthew LaBosco @matthew_labosco]

Chronic stress doesn't start with workload or genetics.

It starts with HPA axis dysregulation, weak vagal tone, and chronic inflammation.

10 methods to lower cortisol naturally (bookmark this): 🧵

1. Drink water before coffee.

[Matthew LaBosco @matthew_labosco]

Robert Sapolsky is a Stanford neuroscientist who proved chronic stress is the silent killer doctors ignore.

On Chris Williamson's podcast, he revealed 10 "normal" habits you do every day that wreck your sleep, mood, and nervous system:

1) Replay conversations in your head

[British GQ @BritishGQ]

With Confessions II just over the horizon, these are our favourite tracks from the best-selling female artist of all time https://t.co/XtLeNl5hAo

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

It is both the birthday and deathday of William Shakespeare today, so give yourself a real treat and watch the magnificent Judi Dench recite his Sonnet 29 🤌🏼✨️

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”

Toni Morrison's magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech https://t.co/Bb9NpIwCYk

[Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🐕⭐️🌙 @emmyzen]

The joyful day will come.
#existential

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

She had just turned 47.
The media was already writing the obituary for her career after the disappointing sales of American Life… but she came back and dropped the biggest pop anthem of the entire 2000s — number one in 41 countries.

[DrownedMadonna @DrownedMadonna]

The Guardian ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)

The Guardian reviews Madonna’s new track “I Feel So Free” with four stars out of five, praising it as a confident and promising teaser for Confessions II.

The reviewer highlights that the track is “exceptionally well made, very obviously the work of people who genuinely understand and love house music” — structured like an underground dance record, with no conventional chorus and none of the “attention-grabbing big breakdowns and subtlety-free hooks of EDM.”

The result, they write, conjures “the heady, hypnotic atmosphere of a locked-in small hours dancefloor.”

Most tellingly, the review argues the track “sounds like Madonna being herself, rather than trying to chase whatever current pop trend has caught her eye” — and sees that as a very good sign for the album ahead.

More reviews to come. 👀

[Pako Salado @pakosaladote]

Madonna At Coachella
💜 2006 // 2026 💜

#ConfessionsOnADancefloor Part II

[Juliaeno Targaryen COADF II Era 🇧🇷🪩 @ppinkdiamondd]

Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter Coachella Live 2026 (full) #bringyourlove

[Dita @Madonnaattorney]

The night Madonna changed pop culture forever.