“There are years that ask questions, and years that answer.” The fear and anticipation of loss can be much more painful than the loss itself. That’s what I’ve learned.An ending brings relief, takes away all the worrying, the what-ifs, the anxiety. No more stress. You feel both sad and calm, knowing now that the real […]
Los Angeles. March 2019. “I believe in starts. Once you have the start, the rest is inevitable.” Life has turned into a mess, a great kind of a mess. Uncertain times, I can’t predict what’s gonna happen or where this path is taking me and everyone expects me to freak out… but man, I just feel […]
Photo diaries. Melbourne January to March 2019 “19. Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.” It was always my thing.Long walks with music. For as long as I’m walking, I’m free. It takes me somewhere else, a place that exists only in my mind. Walking feels […]
Photos from November-December 2018 “We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?” Life-changing moments passing by, so small no one will notice. So short that you couldn’t possibly suspect the importance of it while […]
Photographs from September-October 2018. “It always makes me proud to love the world somehow — hate’s so easy compared.” Everything happened so fast. All mixed together, the good and the bad. October 2018 feels not only distant in the past but like a completely different life. Found myself making decisions that were far away from […]
Diaries June – September 2018 “… but it’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst… And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to […]
Barcelona. June 2018. “You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back.” Paul Theroux Finally here.Listening to an old playlist while I walk the streets of a city that now feels so unlike home, so strange, yet reconnected for moments. I think […]
Diaries March – May 2018 “Let us always meet each other with smiles, for the smile is the beginning of love“ Those defining moments. Lessons we sometimes have to learn from pain and confrontation. Why is it that some people are determined to unlearn them? Is it because they want to forget the pain? […]
Nepal, March 2018
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”
India, February-May ’18
“We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.””