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A Little Update…
I wanted to post a little update… unfortunately this is the last post I will write on this blog. I will be stopping my posts here in January as the domain name expires. However, I have decided to move it all to a new platform called Medium. This is the new link: https://medium.com/@athome.elsewhere You can…
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The Treasures I Take With Me
These days I feel that I have safely closed off one chapter of my life and moved onto the next. I can feel it in my body, it’s a calmness that I can always reach for. Some days it comes easy, other days it’s difficult, but I know that it’s always there. Especially at sunrise….
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I Did Not Do It Alone
Everything that I have ever achieved in my life, I never did it all on my own. All that my life is up until this point, has rested on the kindness of others. Not only of others before me, but of people I have met throughout my life. Whether it’s been money, food, a place…
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The Movement of Indecision
My first week in Switzerland has been magical. After a couple of days, it snowed and it snowed heavily. I spent many hours watching flakes of brittle ice float down in great quantities, settle and form smooth, white hills. White upon white upon white, there were times I could not make out the lines between…
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A Night to Remember in Milan
I am sitting on the train, heading from Milan to Switzerland, and my heart is still full from the night before. Leaving misty Milan behind, I start to see my first bit of blue sky since the afternoon before. I’ve never had that experience before in a city, it was amazing. The air was damp…
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There is No One Size Fits All
It has been a busy few days for me, with work and with packing for my trip to Switzerland. I leave early in the morning, and will travel through Italy where I’ll stay for one night with an old friend. I met my friend and her partner in Singapore, while completing some studies there. It…
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Back at the Suquet
The start of my time in France has kept bringing me back to Cannes, and I am not sure why. It is not a part of the region that I particularly like, although I have learned to appreciate it more over the years. I always saw it as a “place to be seen.” As a…
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Trust
At this moment, I am taken back to a time when I was in Japan. I was sitting in a cafe, in the little city of Hirakata. This little place is not on any tourist top ten, not for the region and not for the country. But it stole my heart, why I will never…
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For Anyone Who Is Quiet
Today, they sun woke up slowly and so did I. The sky was bubbles of grey, weighing heavily, raining steadily and surely. A fatigue came over me, and if I am honest, it also dampened my mood. Days like this, I tend to notice the negative things. I notice all that I have not done,…
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Finding Pieces of Home
As I settle in to my new home, I am exploring what lays beyond each different direction. Every day, I take a new street, I try to shop at a new grocery store or drink at a new café. No matter how small, I try to do at least one thing new in the day….