our anchors.

Traveling was a great chance for me to get lost in thought. Interestingly, the bulk of the threads in my head were long-simmering ideas that I now pulled on further. I traveled alone for most of my trips. In practice, this meant that I was constantly surrounded by new single-serving friends in each new city. […]

beauty vs the world.

For a long time, I assumed that like most things, there was a natural balance between the horrors and the beauty of the world. The yin and the yang that was part of the normal harmony of things. While this might still be true, I’ve learned that it’s wrong for me. I’m in the middle […]