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December 2020 This is a quick sketch of me, eyes closed, sunbathing, thinking, breathing deeply, leaning on a pillar in the cloister of Aix-en-Provence, in the south of France. It was drawn by my then boyfriend in my journal of the summer of 1987 while ‘interrailing’ around Europe. I am 20 and was sorting some …

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October 2017 1. Make Time to write new lectures, to come prepared to meetings, to read around subjects, to write. To eat lunch outside your office. And to perform other acts of self-caring2. Put the ‘higher’ in Higher EducationBe kind, always. In these times of division, anger and prejudice, shine brighter than you ever thought …

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