Sales
the word sale has caused more financial damage than the word expensive ever could # Sales. «But it was reduced» remains one of the least convincing sentences in personal finance...
Beauty & Art
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.
Affinity & Heart
Yuri Says I’m Organizing Too Much
he is wrong in principle and unfortunately correct in practice # Yuri says I am organizing too much. «We haven’t even booked it and you’ve planned day trips.» «I have...
History & Places
Haarlem
another bookmark. I accept that intervention may soon be necessary # Haarlem. Smaller, beautiful, close enough to Amsterdam that apparently the Netherlands is designed specifically to encourage my habit of...
History & Places
Rotterdam
finally a dutch city that does not look like the postcard I had already invented # Rotterdam surprised me because it doesn’t fit the visual story I had lazily begun...
Body & Energy
Mondays
no amount of european geography has eliminated monday # Monday. Alarm. Work. Customer who wanted a miracle. Customer who was lovely. Coffee. Phone. Cleaning. Home. Pasta. Laundry. Amsterdam tab. Closed...
History & Places
Maastricht
today’s completely hypothetical dutch city is in the south # Maastricht today. Different again. This is becoming less like researching a holiday and more like assembling an argument for a...
History & Places
Utrecht
apparently the netherlands contains cities other than the one currently occupying my bookmarks # Utrecht. This is what happens when you research Amsterdam properly: the country begins expanding around it....
Body & Energy
The Work Routine
the body learns a schedule before the mind admits it has one # I can almost perform the beginning of a workday without thinking now. Keys, lights, check, clean, appointments,...
Questions & Musings
Empty Days
some days contain nothing worth telling and are still perfectly real # Empty day. Worked. Ate. Came home. Shower. Music. Talked to Mom. Yuri complained about something. I complained about...
Networks & Codes
The Technological Curse
everything worked yesterday, which apparently offended the computer gods # The technological curse: if you say «everything is working» out loud, something will immediately stop. Tonight it was the site....
Journey & Time
Week #18
another monday enters without knocking # Week eighteen. Nothing to report except that I have now started checking flights in a completely theoretical manner. Completely. Remember me, Eclipse.
Journey & Time
Sunday in the Centre
milan with nowhere to be is a different city from milan at 8:40 on monday morning # Sunday in the centre with Yuri. No list this time, no 101 things...
Why?
Because every thought leaves a trace. If something moved you, disturbed you, softened you, or made you think, leave it here, quietly.