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Fragments of memory, May

Perched on sun-bleached wood-beams, I can hear my father singing in the kitchen, the clamor of pans and ice cubes chattering into tumblers, as he prepares dinner. I tilt into the setting sun, as...

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If I ever...

If I ever have kids, I hope they go headfirst over the handlebars of their bike, once in a while. I hope they come home with dirt and grass stains, a canvas the earth colored on, tangled hair,...

May 8, 2013 Like 16 people like this

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Diary, Winter

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Apr 26, 2013 Like 5 people like this

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Diary, India

Two serene and silver-haired gentlemen, chins cradled in folded arms and elbows, are framed in the agape windows of a festively embellished bus, marinated in honeycomb-hues, ladylike fingers of...

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Diary, Bangkok

I pick up the pen I've neglected for a week and a half, in an evening on a fifth floor terrace freckled with leafy tropical plants and panoramic views of Bangkokian architecture, man made puzzle...

Mar 22, 2013 Like 3 people like this

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My friend Misma

My friend Misma Andrews is the bee's knees, and these are her pictures. Besides her brilliance with a camera, she writes really swell letters, and has a genuine warmth I find in so few people...

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Oscar Zebala

Photos by Oscar Zabala, from the series Sojourners. See the rest of the series here.

Mar 6, 2013 Like 9 people like this

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In The Mood For Love

In The Mood For Love Fa Yeung Nin Wa Hong Kong 2000 Dir. Wong Kar-Wai This film is the palpable magic of director Wong Kar-Wai and cinematographer Christopher Doyle, a sensual waltz in 1962 Hong...

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Did you know, you can quit your job, you can leave university? You aren't legally required to have a degree or even a job, it's a social expectation, not the law, and no one is holding a loaded gun...

Dec 31, 2012 Like 32 people like this

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The End or The Beginning

I'm thinking I'll either: a) expand the nature of the entires to include subjects such as books, film, culture, and so forth, with the occasional diary entry still interjected throughout; b) make a...

Dec 30, 2012 Like 3 people like this

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Dandelions on Fire (Diary, Autumn)

I feverishly pen letter after letter, folded like an accordion over my grandfather's secretary desk, peering oddly close to the paper for someone can't see details only in the distance. Pushing up...

Dec 10, 2012 Like 8 people like this

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Three New Interviews

It is my honor to announce I have three new interviews: one, at The Raw Book, which aims to deconstruct the conventional definition of beauty through a series of original conversations; two, at...

Dec 8, 2012 Like 6 people like this

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DIARY, ÉTÉ (SUMMER)

The last days of summer are a dreamlike haze, ghosted by fragments of lost things: dust lacing my sandals; the cradle sway of trains creeping across Indian landscapes; mangos with flesh soft enough...

Sep 17, 2012 Like 14 people like this

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DIARY, MÙA XUÂN (SPRING)

From the moment of birth, the hours were woven like braids, snaking like channels to the sea of the living. At seven, naive and tender, the seed of this summer's odyssey was planted in a...

Jun 5, 2012 Like 8 people like this

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FOUR YEAR ANNIVERSARY & A STRANGE GIVEAWAY

Today marks the fourth anniversary of this blog, and I wanted to give a warmhearted thank you to the thousands who subscribe, who have commented, and sent me kindness from around the world. Thank...

May 26, 2012 Like 9 people like this

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DIARY, KŌANGA (SPRING)

Soothed by the golden trembling of evening light from where the drawn window drapes have parted at the hip in a tender breeze, scooping frozen pillows of raspberry ice cream from grandmother’s...

May 18, 2012 Like 7 people like this

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SUMMER of FREEDOM (or The Most Important Blog Entry I’ve Ever Made)

I am a child of summer, I believe freedom has been in my bones from birth, and it’s lovingly woven into my prose you read on my blog. My freedom is a beautiful gift though, something precious that...

May 8, 2012 Like 12 people like this

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DIARY, INTERLUDE

I don't care if they all call me insane, if they lower their eyelids scathingly, scoff and ostracize me. If I sacrifice my soul to preserve my flesh and bones, what will I have left? If I offer up...

May 7, 2012 Like 17 people like this

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DIARY, IZVOR (SPRING)

The air conditioning vent can’t bear to look at me, lazily tosses its tumultuous breeze up to the glum upholstery, until I triumphantly jam a sun-bleached gas station receipt and packet promising...

Apr 28, 2012 Like 9 people like this

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DIARY, HARU (SPRING)

I break my fingers on the bones of words, bejeweled in the silk dressings of spring air, fragrant and purged of winter. The voluptuous moon has fallen prey to dieting schemes and lost half its...

Apr 9, 2012 Like 13 people like this

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DIARY, TALVI (WINTER)

The day the dog died, it snowed a snow that suffered atrociously from vertigo, or acrophobia I suppose, a snow that could not be softly coaxed or charmed or even hypnotized into the dizzying teacup...

Mar 8, 2012 Like 7 people like this

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ASIA ODYSSEY

Forgive me for interrupting the expected, but I've been so busy getting things ready for my odyssey through south-southeast Asia, in spring through the birth of summer (two or three months of...

Mar 8, 2012 Like 2 people like this

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DIARY, ZIMA (WINTER)

The night sky dimpled with stars, softens upon the bearded snow’s beauty. Gypsy breezes tempt golden tendrils, tangled at the nape of the neck, to join in the wind’s free spirited circus, galloping...

Feb 23, 2012 Like 10 people like this

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DIARY, INVIERNO (WINTER)

If you like eating platefuls of spaghetti in the bathtub, and reading poetry whilst brushing your teeth, and hunting for strange things like antique glass eyeballs, and I like these things, you...

Feb 16, 2012 Like 12 people like this

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DIARY, HIVER (WINTER)

The forest is an empress, temptress, russet velvet and svelte as it dresses in the furs of snow and lures the orbs of my eyes to be seduced by its beauty. Wooly fog entombing the land, I emerge...

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DIARY, ZIMOWY (WINTER)

Dreaming in midnight blues, I am constellations drawn in the sand of desolate seas under the swollen bloom of the sun at morning, the microscope of the moon, in the night. I am its specimen, the...

Feb 7, 2012 Like 9 people like this

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“Love is a believing creature.”

The awakening. Bear and claw from slumber, under your cocoon of quilts, tawny and yawning, and into the sheep’s wool of fog. Poppy seeds of light sewn to the breast of daybreak, brambly brush...

Nov 26, 2011 Like 14 people like this

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

Into the fluorescent-lit night, my blood elopes with hospital vials, needles nipping in the crooks of my elbows, sucker punches of bruises, putrid-yellow. Pain’s caged animal gnaws at my skull,...

Sep 28, 2011 Like 14 people like this

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“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

Beneath the belly rumble of fan blades beating the deviled heat and needling flesh in hot beds of wettish coverlets and linens, feverish lips fitted over crescent crowns of teeth. Behold the...

Sep 8, 2011 Like 14 people like this

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Susanna-Cole King

Fragments of memory, May

If I ever...

Diary, Winter

Diary, India

Diary, Bangkok

My friend Misma

Oscar Zebala

In The Mood For Love

Words for the New Year

The End or The Beginning

Dandelions on Fire (Diary, Autumn)

Three New Interviews

DIARY, ÉTÉ (SUMMER)

DIARY, MÙA XUÂN (SPRING)

FOUR YEAR ANNIVERSARY & A STRANGE GIVEAWAY

DIARY, KŌANGA (SPRING)

SUMMER of FREEDOM (or The Most Important Blog Entry I’ve Ever Made)

DIARY, INTERLUDE

DIARY, IZVOR (SPRING)

DIARY, HARU (SPRING)

DIARY, TALVI (WINTER)

ASIA ODYSSEY

DIARY, ZIMA (WINTER)

DIARY, INVIERNO (WINTER)

DIARY, HIVER (WINTER)

DIARY, ZIMOWY (WINTER)

“Love is a believing creature.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”

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