When I was six,

I wonder what I wondered about. [We're also commemorating a 100th post on the Internet on this blog - but that's not really related.] - Today, that question that I received, full of innocence which asked me, "Why [is X not married]?" To which I replied, "Oh, X hasn't found someone X likes yet." And...

For a long while I had thought

that balancing was something I did particularly well. - What is this emotion that chokes up my chestlike luggage straps choking a down jacket that I only used at home? - As we have come to learn and write, balancing is something we do badly. Even balancing accounts is hard - I can't get my...

“Let us not suffer.”

Oh love, when I wrote you those words, why did you accept them without qualification? - [This post is available in audio form at this link.] - On a non-conscious level, I knew that he was also taking the same module. On a conscious level, I was caught by surprise when I went up the...

At 4 am in the morning in London,

I sat in the face of a three hour class on three hours of sleep, grateful and humbled by my teammates and friends who supported us thousands of kilometers away. - [This post is available in audio form at this link.] - I'm starting to feel a little homesick, despite being in an apartment with...

A bundle of contradictions

like the emotions in my chest that well up at a simple check-in. -[This post is available in audio form at this link.] - The things I really want to say, but I know I will not say. That feeling like panic that wells up inside us, that if I was sane I would be...

All the things

that I want to do. - [This post is available in audio form at this link.] -I want to study, and learn about lots of things. Some things, just for the sake of knowing them, and more things to be able to do them. Things like, getting around to the books that are still waiting...

I was told that love is something that

comes knocking, and is not something you can look for. - [this post is available in audio form at this link.] And they also say that love is something that will bypass my head and knock straight on my heart - so this must mean that whatever emotion it is that knocks on my temple...

“Well, I’m staying here,”

is what they said. And for me, I wondered if that was as strong a vote as I made it out to be. This is also a selective review of evidence - which is funny. Why would you put weight on evidence that is not as close? Or is that my bias, taking one to...

I was actually,

sad - to leave. Not that I was surprised to be sad, because I had already felt this way last weekend, but there was a sudden nostalgia to pack up for the last time and think that if I just blinked, a year would wink by. That on the last day I got to hear...

We had karaoke

in school, opposite the room that we usually practice in. Which is nice, being a bunch of choristers singing for our break time - no it really isn't ironic. It's about the being able to sing what you want and however you want, with an audience. A captive audience, only captive in rapture. The live...