Internet Seems Excited
Something interesting is happening in the science corners of the internet, and I have spent far too much of this evening trying to work out exactly how excited I am...
Science & Technology
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.
Science & Technology
Spacetime
I spent part of this evening trying to explain spacetime to Yuri while he was making dinner, which was probably not the most considerate moment to begin a conversation about...
Personal Diary
Slow Sunday
Sunday began with rain and the sound of Yuri moving around the kitchen, which is usually enough to persuade me that getting out of bed might be worthwhile. I stayed...
Home & Daily Life
Coffee / Books / Amsterdam
There was a book in my handbag this morning, another book on the kitchen table and a third one waiting beside the bed, and somehow I still managed to spend...
Personal Diary
Days Off
I had a day off today, and I began it by waking up at almost exactly the time I would normally get up for work. This is one of the...
Journey & Time
The Light Coming Back
I noticed the light on my way home today. Not because there was a spectacular sunset or anything particularly dramatic happening in the sky, but because I reached a familiar...
Personal Diary
February
February began with me standing in the kitchen in my socks, trying to persuade the coffee machine to work while Yuri searched for something he had apparently lost before going...
Journey & Time
January / Precies Goed
January is ending with rain on the windows, a half-finished cup of tea beside my laptop and Yuri telling me from the other room that I should come and watch...
Beauty & Art
Winter Photographs
I went out with my Olympus this morning because the light looked promising, which is a dangerous phrase in Amsterdam. At nine the sky was pale and bright, with just...
Personal Diary
Simple Things
I bought flowers on the way home today because they were pink and because it was Friday, which seemed like two perfectly sufficient reasons. The florist had buckets of tulips...
Memory & Time
Memory
I was reading during my lunch break today when I realised what date it was. January 27. International Holocaust Remembrance Day. I had been thinking about something completely ordinary a...
Personal Diary
The Normality I Like
I had one of those days today when nothing especially interesting happened and I still came home in a good mood. I woke up on time, found both my gloves...
Why?
Because every thought leaves a trace. If something moved you, disturbed you, softened you, or made you think, leave it here, quietly.