I find myself in a lion's dead as a beggar with an outstretched hand.

I find myself in a Western land asking for bread from dishonest man.

Do not fear the lion's den.

You'll be bright up to your father's land

And my cry is a long way of an ancient man

To return to his promise land Go it home again The song you just

Lion's Den by Levi Robin.

It is one of my answers to this week's self-care Q&A.

Which figures from history inspire you and why?

Gareth Jones, obviously, my imaginary boyfriend, Ulysses S. Grant, my other imaginary boyfriend,

Eileen O'Shaughnessy, the Irish-English poet, who was the wife and muse of George Orwell.

She was more Orwell than Orwell.

Orwell is a young man.

He was sort of running, hiding from himself.

He went into the Imperial Police, famously in Burma, where Eileen was always very outspoken and lived by her convictions as a young woman,

becoming one of the first women to graduate from Oxford.

When she was in high school, she would give these speeches about how the pen is mightier in the sword,

how we must not look away.

So she always wore her heart on her sleeve.

She was always full of conviction.

And she gave Orwell, who was deeply insecure, the confidence, the enthusiasm, the encouragement

that he needed. And not only that, she was someone who studied child psychology, she studied

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