Category: Life the universe and everything
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Love languages
I write this to you on a warm summer evening from a quiet house in Berlin. Our home is not too big, mostly white, and has huge glass windows to let the sun in. It’s 9:30 pm and it’s still bright out. Bees are buzzing around the flowers adorning my neighbour’s balcony. Most houses here…
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Your elsewhere is within you
I ache to write. And yet, words keep their distance. They hesitate to come closer, afraid of being abandoned again. Maybe they’re angry with me; for not inviting them in. For not letting them fly in through the window, as the relentless grey Berlin sky continues to growl and glower. I haven’t seen the sun…
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The Art of Moving
Nothing can prepare you for the whirlwind that is moving countries. Getting a visa is when it begins to get real. Everything before that feels up in the air; fragile. Once the initial giddiness settles down, strange fears start creeping in. What if something goes wrong? What if we don’t like it? We’ll be away…
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Proof of Existence
I had to find my birth certificate today. We were in the middle of some paperwork when this unexpected request was made, and I had to rummage through my Google Drive to retrieve it. So you’re telling me, as a functional human being who’s very much alive, I need to carry around a piece of…
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Dear Pixie
This is a letter I’d written to my unborn niece back in May 2021. She’s over seven months old now, but I wanted to preserve this right here on my blog. Dear Pixie, How tiny you must be right now! How petite your little fingers and toes. You’re as big as a pineapple, Google says.…
Butterflies and Hurricanes 