Everyday joys.
These days the only other humans I see regularly apart from my partner are our postal delivery persons. Some days it’s the Chinese-Australian man in his 30s, other days it’s […]
Grief and the “distance” of decluttering.
I’ve had a super emotionally heavy day.
what holding space really looks like.
This is not a manual. This is not a thank you list. This is catharsis. This is what holding space really looks like before, during, and after the death of […]
have yourself a merry little christmas;
Today is my first day back at work. “Work” as in academic work work, “work” as in boy am I supposed to be churning out some pretty amazing and mind-blowing […]
Processing grief, in five chapters.
I feel a lot of pressure to make quick decisions, to anticipate the future, to placate angry people, to console grieving people, to emote more, to emote less, to hurry, […]
On the value of public grieving, in 22 Tweets.
It is 0203hrs. I got up to take an hourlong […]
Notes on Goffman’s theories of strategic interaction.
Some notes on Goffman’s theories of strategic interaction as I […]
Translations, care, and paralanguages.
It is 0212hrs on a Tuesday morning in Singapore. I am typing away in a dark room in Chinatown while my two best friends are asleep beside me.
Of wordless wordsmiths.
“Inexpressible Love to write – Enticements, arguments, and impasses generated by the desire to “express” amorous feeling in a “creation” (particularly of writing). Two powerful myths have persuaded us that […]
I am collecting beautiful objects.
I am collecting beautiful objects. A pair of shoes. Some glasses. Telephone. Typewriter. They are made from wool and felt. With apparent stitches. Their delicate, unfinished appearance is friendly. And […]
Care is a system.
“To care about something is more than just happening to believe that something is valuable or to want or to desire something to be the case. Believing, wanting and desiring […]
Better static than stasis.
“On distance swims between two islands, I would sometimes stop mid-course to look around. To find myself equidistant between two points gave me the funniest feeling. To think that back […]
9 Murakami in 9 weeks.
I have a Murakami problem. I cannot stop consuming his words and immersing in his life worlds. It all began nine weeks ago when I decided that I could no […]
force majeure.
This view to this earworm. I feel the need to take ten minutes away from coding and writing to catalogue some precious weekend memories before they seep out of my […]
When you travel alone through foreign cities as a young woman,
I think I might have developed some muscle memory from […]
I don’t want to be an armchair anthropologist.
I keep meeting people who think any one can be/is […]
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