A personal blog that explores in-between places, languages, and states of being
People asked what was the biggest difference between Covid-19 and SARS. The biggest difference to me was when SARS occurred I was a child. I didn’t have a phone and my mom didn’t have WeChat. Without social media we wouldn’t have responded so fast. We probably wouldn’t have felt as alert and together, and at […]
The moment he told me he wouldn’t marry me I went into a shock. One of those shocks I couldn’t be more familiar with – same as when he decided he wouldn’t date me, then he wanted to break up. It’s like playing a video game and when I finally reach the last round, I […]
– For the vast majority of us, the virus has been in our heads. While we feel it so close — it’s in the air we breathe and attached to our fingers. Everything that was once part of you becomes a potential source of contamination, including your phone and the body you sleep with. A […]
“Sensual love blinds us to heavenly love; by itself it could not do so, but since it contains the element of heavenly love unconsciously within it, it can.” I always remembered this phrase, which he showed me when we had lunch at that Mediterranean restaurant in Chapel Hill. We were friends, in between stages of […]