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 written

From the archive.

School & Learning

The Office

not technically an office, but there are papers, phones and people saying things like I’ll call you back # The office, by which I mean the little administrative corner of...

Affinity & Heart

On Love

apparently I still have things to say about this after eight years, unfortunately for everyone # Love. Horrible subject. Everybody has already written about it, sung about it, ruined themselves...

Body & Energy

Being Tired

not tragic tired, not existential tired, just please don’t ask me another question tired # I am tired. That’s the post. Not depressed, not secretly dissatisfied with my life, not...

Memory & Time

On Getting Older

twenty-six is approaching quietly while eighteen still feels suspiciously recent # Getting older. Not old. Please. I am twenty five and if anybody calls twenty five old I will personally...

Networks & Codes

Amsterdam in Bookmarks

this is not planning, this is merely an alarming quantity of organized curiosity # I made a bookmarks folder. That is all. Nobody panic. It says Amsterdam, which perhaps weakens...

Traditions & Culture

Koninginnedag

apparently an entire country has turned orange today and I have questions # Koninginnedag. Queen’s Day. I discovered it because I have now crossed the line from «maybe Amsterdam» into...

Questions & Musings

Life and Other Amenities

life is what happens between the things important enough to receive titles # Life and other amenities. Work. Groceries. Mom. Yuri. Dad calling. Hair appointment. Bills. A client telling me...

History & Places

The Netherlands on Wikipedia

one article becomes twelve and suddenly I know things nobody asked me to know # The Netherlands on Wikipedia. This is what happens when a possible holiday meets my inability...

Journey & Time

Week #16

april is almost over and apparently spring has accelerated the calendar # Week sixteen. Amsterdam is still there in the background, increasingly less hypothetical. Milan is currently making a persuasive...

Power & Society

History and Political Arguments

history becomes especially loud when everybody believes remembering it means agreeing about everything afterward # April 25. Liberation Day. The date commemorates Italy’s liberation from Nazi occupation and Fascism in...