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Friday morning began with the alarm ringing at an hour that seemed personally unreasonable. I reached for the phone, turned it off and spent a few seconds considering whether I...
Personal Diary
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.
Personal Diary
September
September arrived this morning without asking whether I was ready, which I consider rather impolite after such a lovely August. I opened the bedroom curtains and found a pale sky,...
Personal Diary
Summer / Saved
August is ending with me sitting beside the open window, looking at a city that is beginning to feel slightly different from the one I knew at the start of...
Thoughts & Life
The Ordinary Things That Still Seem Beautiful
I had a completely ordinary Tuesday today, and I have spent the evening thinking about how much I enjoyed it. Nothing extraordinary happened. I went to work, solved a few...
Photography & Life
Photographs
I spent most of today organising photographs, which is an activity that sounds peaceful until you discover how many files can accumulate when you own a camera and have very...
Photography & Amsterdam
Sunsets
I spent part of this evening chasing the sunset with my camera, which is a rather dramatic way of saying that I walked around Amsterdam trying to find a good...
Personal Diary
Friday
Friday arrived with warm weather, a manageable workload and the very pleasant knowledge that I had no urgent plans for tomorrow morning. I made coffee, got dressed and left the...
Music & Sound
Country Evening
I spent this evening listening to country music while cooking dinner, and I have decided that some songs are particularly good at making an ordinary Thursday feel like something worth...
Amsterdam & Life
Amsterdam in August
Amsterdam in August has a particular rhythm that I have come to recognise after almost five years here. The streets are busy with tourists, the canals are full of boats...
Personal Diary
Lazy Sunday
I woke up this morning feeling as though my feet had filed a formal complaint about last night. Yuri was already downstairs, and when I finally appeared in the kitchen...
Music & Sound
Hardcore Saturday
Saturday began with country music and ended with hardcore, which is a perfectly reasonable musical progression if you happen to be me. Yuri disagreed when I explained this over breakfast....
Personal Diary
Open Windows
I have had the windows open almost all day, which is one of the simplest pleasures of summer and one of the things I miss most when winter arrives. The...
Why?
Because every thought leaves a trace. If something moved you, disturbed you, softened you, or made you think, leave it here, quietly.