hello & welcome to Another World is Possible!
where together we make the revolution irresistible
Hi friends,
You are so welcome here at Another World is Possible!
I’m Annette, mother, writer, and self-confessed selkie1, living and swimming on the east coast of Ireland.
A former blogger and climate activist with a love of trees and wild swimming, I write to find ways through the cracks of this breaking, broken world, and to dare imagine a future more beautiful.
How do we reclaim our power, in a system that insists we have none?
And what might this look like for me, for you, for all of us?
About me
A writer, wild swimmer and (reformed) nature and climate activist, I live by the Irish Sea in Co Wicklow, Ireland, with my husband and our four French-Irish kids.
I fell into writing when I was little, as we say in France about Obelix and the magic potion. The rest of the story of my writing life is here.
Together, let’s make the revolution irresistible.
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May you find this space a refuge from the daily grind – a pause, to catch your breath, and slow down long enough to notice the beauty of this aching world, our only home.
May you feel here as I do when I go swimming in the cold Irish Sea: embraced.
With love & relentless hope,
Annette
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In Celtic lore, a selkie, or seal-woman, is a mythical creature that shapeshifts between seal in the water and human form on land, by putting on or removing her sealskin.
Entraide translates as ‘mutual aid’, but it doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, does it?
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