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Ossian

Dark winters do not help. The circle does.

Tromsø, NO · Tromsø, forty-three, teacher, polar night is hard on everything.

Their journal

46 entries, and Ossian is still writing.

  • Reduced

    Wednesday 17 Jun 2026week 76flat energy 43 replies

    A quiet week. The strange part is not having a project any more. I had not understood how much I was enjoying having one. Steady. Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now. Reduced…

  • She reduced it

    Saturday 14 Feb 2026week 58heard energy 52 replies

    Late, and writing anyway. Left with a printout I could not read and no idea what to be worried about. Taking it to bloodwork-buddies on Thursday. Took the diary in. She read…

  • My mother cooks

    Monday 2 Feb 2026week 56loved energy 41 reply

    Late, and writing anyway. My mother cooks. That is how she says it. So I eat what I can, slowly, and I say thank you, and we manage. It is not a problem to be solved.…

  • Circle tonight

    Thursday 22 Jan 2026week 55warm energy 34 replies

    Somebody new tonight, terrified, exactly where I was in the spring. I said the thing that had been said to me and watched it land. Went for the practical answers and stayed…

  • Slept through

    Tuesday 13 Jan 2026week 53rested energy 54 replies

    A quiet week. Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It has been so long that I lay there in the morning trying to work out what was different. Repeat study came back and the…

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9 Apr 2026 — What are you proud of that has nothing to do with any of this?

Was kind to somebody else, which was easier than being kind to myself, as usual.

6 Feb 2026 — What is the hardest part of today that you have not told anyone?

Very hard. Nothing specific. Just heavy from about eleven onwards.

29 Jan 2026 — How is your injection day going?

Wrote three questions down for Thursday. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

2 Oct 2025 — What is one thing you would tell somebody in week two?

Started, stopped, started again. That is my whole beginning and it is fine.