From the place you came from

Cars rushing past the house, which is not yours.  Traffic sounds, on an otherwise quiet centre town street.  You sit on someone else’s balcony, eyes on the view.  Buildings, so many buildings, probably built in the seventies.  Ugly, apartment complex buildings, nothing else.  A void settles in the midst of your ribcage.  Inhale, Exhale.  Air…

Like-love Take 2

Fireworks are going off.  Every bang more spectacular and grand than the other, and then, always unexpectedly, it ceases.  You stand there in the middle, on some urban hill not far from your apartment, watching the multicoloured light soften the darkness of the skies, and then fade into them, blown away by the wind. Something…

You spoke of now

We will never sit on the lawn in the Brixton square and watch the sun set behind the clock tower again.  I knew it back then, but it still feels like a new idea in hindsight.  Everything was so tangible then!  It wasn’t that long ago you see, the autumn had come, and we both…

I fall in love with everything and everyone that was

I fall in love with everything and everyone that was.  I fall in love with everyone and everything ephemeral, namely.  I fall in love with the 60 year old white-haired man who’s making crêpes in a crummy pâtisserie in Montmartre; I fall in love with the woman I cross on the sidewalk, who smiles back…

Happy New Year!

One of my favourite days in the year is without a doubt New Years Eve.  It’s the perfect excuse for mixing alcohol, drinking sparkling wine, wearing false eyelashes and spending the evening with my favourite people. It was my favourite Holiday to spend with my parents as a kid as well.  We would cook tons…

A little taste of home

Working and living abroad is much different than traveling through a city.   You have the time to develop habits and you have the time to have episodes of melancholy. Basically you have time to live as you would have in your old circumstances.  I rarely stop to think how much I miss home, the…