The Comfortable Life
comfort is wonderful until somebody changes one piece and you discover how much of it was architecture # I have a comfortable life in ways I sometimes fail to notice...
Questions & Musings
ECLIXAR
digital diary
Journal.
fragments of quiet intelligence
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...
Every article is a scene. Every word, a frame of something that would not have remained, had it not
been writtenFrom the archive.
Journey & Time
A Sunday Outside the City
sometimes leaving milan for a few hours is enough to make returning feel intentional # Outside the city today. Nothing dramatic, just air that smelled less like traffic, roads with...
Questions & Musings
Things I Don’t Want to Know
information is only power when you actually want the information # There are things I don’t want to know yet. Exact luggage allowance. Exact airport logistics. Which furniture she might...
Journey & Time
Hikari Is Making Lists
lists make departure look horribly competent # Hikari is making lists. Real lists now. Not the vague page I saw weeks ago. Categories. Things to do. Documents. Things to take....
Networks & Codes
Communities and the People Who Run Them
every online community eventually discovers that humans require moderation even when nobody is wearing shoes # Managing any online community, even a tiny one, teaches you quickly that «people will...
Journey & Time
Gelato, Garibaldi and Far Too Many People
sunday afternoon apparently requires sharing every square metre of milan with the entire population # Gelato near Garibaldi and approximately nine million people, give or take. Warm weather makes Milan...
Music & Sound
Wide Open Spaces
apparently one country song can become geographically inconvenient when your best friend is preparing to cross continents # The Dixie Chicks are dangerous now. Specifically Wide Open Spaces, which I...
School & Learning
Knowing What You’re Doing
competence is mostly doing without narrating every step to yourself # I realized today that I know what I am doing at work. Obviously I knew this yesterday too, but...
Networks & Codes
Posts My Readers Will Barely Understand
apparently a personal blog becomes incomprehensible when the person writing it has a personal life # Several readers have asked what I have been talking around lately. Fair. I have...
Affinity & Heart
Declarations of Love
people say i love you as though the sentence means one thing, which is obviously impossible # Declarations of love are overrated and essential. Contradiction intended. «I love you» can...
Journey & Time
Parco Sempione
sunlight, grass, camera, too many people and the annual realization that milan owns trees # Parco Sempione today, along with approximately every other person in Milan. Warm enough for people...
Body & Energy
Waking Up Already Bored
some mornings arrive pre bored, which seems unfair because technically nothing has happened yet # I woke bored. This should be impossible. Boredom should require exposure to time, but apparently...
Why?
Because every thought leaves a trace. If something moved you, disturbed you, softened you, or made you think, leave it here, quietly.