to tc : nîmes
We've been spending long afternoons in her small apartment just sitting at her table, sipping coffee and talking about what it means to be back here as the warm southern breeze blowing through her open window….We’ve been talking a lot about how difficult it is to be in French.
to tc : meditations on home / the return
And the train pulled in and I was off, automatically going through the motions of transferring to the metro and navigating metro maps in my brain that I didn't realize were still there.
home, home, home, home, my heart murmured gently in time with the deep rattleclackroar of the metro. you're home again.
love in strasbourg
Jojo + Daniel’s wedding
to john : august impressions
A love letter of sorts, in brief impressions and colors
so long, iceland
Lake Mývatn, Hverir, the Blue Lagoon, and Reykjavik
akureyri
Northern Lights
the golden circle
We're on a redeye to Reykjavik with Ronnie and Lisa, one of my many adopted aunts and uncles. The flight was cramped, uncomfortable, sleepless, but taking off from Newark was like falling into the arms of an old friend.
the submarine
Deep underground in a pit filled with developer and fixer, Jana and I found each other.
home and other iterations
Every morning, I climb into the mute woman's bosom and she carries me in her bloodstream, veins spiderwebbing across the city. A lifegiving force over a century-old, still steady and strong. Anonymous infinities collide against each other in the rapidly flowing current.
rome and the vatican
Photos from the Eternal City
pescara and gran sasso
pays basque
My sojourn in the south of France was in the heart of Pays Basque or Basque Country, a region spanning across France and Spain where the Basque people live.