There is a manner in which certain things ask to be written, not so that they may be found, but because to exist in silence, for too long, eventually becomes insufficient. It is not urgency. It is something closer to a necessity that makes no noise, waiting patiently until it discovers the proper form. This archive was born in such a way.
Not as a diary. Not as a blog. Not as something that is updated merely for the sake of appearing alive. It is a place where certain thoughts come to rest, those which do not dissolve, those which return, those which insist with the silent obstinacy of things that truly belong to you...
I woke up late today, which was entirely predictable after the amount of sleep I lost watching the referendum results. Yuri was already downstairs, and when I appeared in the...
I have spent the entire day hearing people say some version of “I can’t believe it,” which is understandable because the British referendum result has surprised an enormous number of...
I have spent most of today checking the news about the British referendum, which has not been especially productive but has been extremely difficult to avoid. The vote is taking...
Tomorrow Britain votes, and I have spent today trying not to read every prediction that appears on my screen. I have failed rather comprehensively. At breakfast I checked the news,...
The longest day of the year arrived with me standing in front of the wardrobe trying to decide whether the weather was warm enough for a sleeveless top. It was...
I wrote the words REMAIN and LEAVE on a piece of paper this afternoon, not because I was preparing to vote but because I wanted to organise my thoughts. I...
I have never lived in the United Kingdom, which is something I think worth remembering before developing an opinion about what British people ought to do with their country. I...
I spent part of Saturday morning reading about the British referendum while eating breakfast, which is not a particularly relaxing combination. The newspapers are full of predictions, warnings, arguments and...
Friday began with me discovering that I had forgotten to charge my phone and that my favourite black trousers were still waiting to be ironed. Neither problem was particularly serious,...
I nearly dropped my coffee this afternoon because I opened a science article at exactly the wrong moment. There has been another gravitational-wave detection announced, and I immediately forgot that...
I had another conversation about security today, this time over lunch with two colleagues who had very different opinions about what governments should do after attacks like the one in...
The news from Orlando was still everywhere this morning. I read a few updates while drinking coffee, then put the phone down because I needed to get ready for work...
Why?
Because every thought leaves a trace. If something moved you, disturbed you, softened you, or made you think, leave it here, quietly.