A personal blog that explores in-between places, languages, and states of being
I was lying naked in bed with my boyfriend who almost became my ex-boyfriend when Mom knocked on our door. We thought it was our neighborhor downstairs who had visited at random times since our water dripped into her apartment two months ago. We tried to ignore the knock and continue our conversation in hope […]
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 […]
“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 […]