Nostalgia visits me sometimes. More often than many, I would venture to guess. When it comes, it weighs like a heavy cloud on my chest, moist and full of emotion, threatening to burst, in streams down…
Posts tagged travel
Bali — striving to see it for what it is
Dragging our suitcases up the street, I take a last look at the penjors now standing outside of every home, every temple in preparation for one of the biggest ceremonies of the year — Galungan….
An account of Bali so far
Exotic is the word they use for places like these. Verdant rice fields make up the countryside, poles bearing makeshift flags of white t-shirts marking the spaces between the green rows. Engraved and painted swastikas…
What I want to say about travel
I’m trying to find the words to describe my travels. I want to write about this prolonged journey I’m on, with no foreseeable end in sight. I want to talk about how stripping away the…
Travel Vignettes – from Moldova to Kyrgyzstan
Our Uber driver wears a pastel rainbow striped button down, a la the nineties. He is nearly bald with only a downy layer of white still intact. Just a few words are exchanged before he…
Thought bubbles: the paradox of cohesion
Consistency is a tricky beast. Society/people/our expectations of ourselves always seems to be asking us to pick a path, to find a niche, to produce consistently within a certain theme, or hell, even a certain…