Lucy Jones

2 months ago | womanalive.co.uk | Kate Coleman |Lucy Jones |Francis Spufford |James Cone

Hosted by Claire MustersThis month I’m reading…  Unmaking Mary: Shattering the myth of perfect motherhood By Chine McDonald (978-1399814638, Hodder & Stoughton)    This is an unusual book: the description from Chine’s publisher indicates it is part-memoir, part social and theological commentary, focusing on how motherhood has been shaped, negatively (but also positively), by cultural and theological understandings of what it means to be a woman.

Jan 11, 2025 | latimes.com | Lucy Jones

As I write this, I am watching the smoke billow up from Altadena, a mile away. Three friends have already told me they lost their homes. I am trying to find my neighbor to deal with a damaged tree in her yard about to fall on my house, but she isn’t here. We are almost certainly experiencing the costliest wildfires in the history of Southern California. We have lost much and will be working to recover for a long time to come.

Jan 8, 2025 | theguardian.com | Lucy Jones

A few years ago, I started looking at the underside of logs and it changed my life. I found a secret carnival of the most bodacious and interesting organisms I had ever seen. Bubbles of candy-pink gloss on stilts (Comatricha nigra), bunches of rainbow iridescence on toffee strings (Badhamia utricularis), bouffants of raspberry parfait (Arcyria denudata) – and those are just a few that have appeared on bits of wood in our urban garden.

Jan 7, 2025 | refinery29.com | Lucy Jones

Photographed by Ryan Williams. Manifestation is all over my For You page, where dewy-skinned soothsayers promise to help me materialize my dreams. I’ve also noticed manifestation buzzwords like “abundance” and “higher self” seeping into the language of close friends. It’s difficult to pinpoint when these concepts took hold exactly — I’d put it somewhere between COVID and Trump 2.0 — but as our world slides further into chaos, it’s not hard to understand why millions are turning to magical thinking.

Jan 6, 2025 | refinery29.com | Lucy Jones

Manifestation is all over my For You page, where dewy-skinned soothsayers promise to help me materialise my dreams. I’ve also noticed manifestation buzzwords like “abundance” and “higher self” seeping into the language of close friends. It’s difficult to pinpoint when these concepts took hold exactly — I’d put it somewhere between COVID and Trump 2.0 — but as our world slides further into chaos, it’s not hard to understand why millions are turning to magical thinking.