Thank you everyone who sponsored me for HACKNEY MOVES. I did it in 01:25:03 🙂 On the 18th km I was desperate to stop, but it’s easier to find possibilities you didn’t know you had with charities like SurvivorsUK in the world.

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Our awesome fundraiser Andy West is running the @hackneymoves Half Marathon to raise funds for SurvivorsUK!

Sponsor Andy at justgiving.com/page/andy-west…

Every pound you give will have an instrumental impact in changing a survivor's life for the better ❤️

Go Andy! 🏃‍♂️👏

Our Freedom To Write workshop Bath Festivals has sold out. There are still a couple of places left on our retreat in Ross-on-Wye 27-30 June.
freedomtowrite.co.uk/retreat/
DM for more info.

Books about running tend to be either too programmatically redemptive or too nerdy/banal. But this running diary, kept during the year Gardner’s brother died, is something special. The emotion is rendered so delicately, as if each sentence was made using a pair of tweezers.

A big pleasure to be interviewed by Terry Waite today Guernsey Lit Fest

Our writing workshop @bathfestival is already SOLD OUT!! But there are still a small number of places at the summer writing retreat. Check out freedomtowrite.com for details, email [email protected] or DM me or Andy West

So, apparently, time doesn’t actually have a direction. It’s cuz of heat and little tilted light cones near black holes.

My brain was only just holding on during this series of exquisite confoundments. Often, I just wrote “a bit like Star Trek” in the margin and turned the page.

“Granddad's desire that his son be good at sports had led his son to entirely reject sports. My father often said decades later that he was only able to run truly fast once Granddad died.”

On getting faster as we get older ⁦nxthompson⁩ 🙏🏼 Beautiful. wired.com/story/marathon…

“de-emphasise the importance of work for finding personal fulfilment.” Alec Stubbs

This essay nicely articulates a shift in mood I notice in myself and amongst my friends. I suspect it’s partly to do with my age 👴🏼, but also the economy?
psyche.co/ideas/the-achi…

Questioning Punsihment interview with Anastasia Chamberlen and Henrique Carvalho is now online @thephilosopher1923

youtube.com/channel/UCM6Cf…

Teaching philosophy in a children’s prison has shown me the meaning of anger | By Andy West (⁦Andy West)⁩ #philosophy theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Thank you everybody for all the birthday wishes. I had a great day. x

38 today. I’m beginning to start to understand my confusion - I think. One of the nice things about getting older is that I have experienced enough ups and downs to know that the downs don’t last forever. Whatever bad shit happens to me tomorrow, I’ll probably get through it.

Tonight!

On Tuesday I’ll be interviewing Anastasia Chamberlen and Henrique Carvalho about punishment, why it maintains its allure even after it fails, the pathology of justice and what it would look like to reject punitive logic. Come along The Philosopher

thephilosopher1923.org/events/questio…

My first picture book, a collaboration with the wonderful Sandhya Prabhat, will be out next year with Little Tiger Books. More info here: littletiger.co.uk/acquisition-an…

Came first in my category at Parkrun today 🙂

In 5 weeks I’ll be running the Hackney Half for SurvivorsUK, a charity that helps make healing possible. I’ve been so touched by the support I’ve revived so far. Please donate if you can. justgiving.com/page/andy-west…

This was so much fun last year. If you’d like to join us this summer DM for more info.

Huge admiration for Andy West! 🩶 #currentlyreading

Pleasantly surprised that spring is slowly arriving in Finland AND that I stumbled upon this book in my local library Andy West