the other side
I’m done. I’m picking out the remnants from my cupboards, packing them away into stacks. all of them, from the tiny typewritten notes to the scrawly handwritten ones. there’s the very first case study from lawr, the public law essay…
beautiful things
There are so many beautiful sunsets that I’ve seen and I feel thankful and lucky for that. I wonder how many people actually bother to look out of their windows once in a while to remember that there are beautiful…
On humanity
From the Topographie of Terror Always interesting to examine how and why normal Germans never stood up against something that was so obviously wrong and allowed Nazi policies to perpetuate with such indifference: Presumably, the regime’s Jewish policy was not…
the last thing i wanted to be growing up was to be Boring.
Watching that, I decided to never count on career stability and have tried to be less defined by my work. Some of my friends have recalibrated as well. “I look at the people in positions of authority in my office…
the train ain’t even left the station
When I was 17, I wanted a life that was vibrant, different, surrounded by the things and people that I loved. I wanted everything, with none of the commitment. I wanted the space to do my own thing, to be…
Limitations of memory
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail. – Ben Jonson There are so many things that I’ve seen and experienced here, yet the photographs and memories rarely do them justice. It’s so easy…
STRANGERDANGER
At some point, all the pre-trip preparation will cease to be helpful, at which point you have to place your faith in the goodwill of strangers and travel on their blessings. There is no way of knowing or preparing for…
night monsters
You carry your heartache like a shadow. It is a dark, flat replica of you; it takes your shape but never your substance, your angles but never your softness. You keep chasing it in circles but you cannot shed it,…
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