Wrapped

If you’re a Spotify person, or even if you’re not, you’ve probably seen the “Spotify Wrapped” posts popping up around social media today. I don’t usually like companies/programs to know a whole lot about my life, but with Spotify… the relationship is almost intimate. Like, Spotify knows me, and sometimes it’s almost eerie how spot […]

Threads

Tonight I was invited to share a bit of my life story with a group of friends. I’ve shared parts of my story many times before, including all around this blog. However, it was the first time in a long time where, in the course of telling my story, I didn’t feel compelled to talk […]

The Fog Is Here

The fog settled in today. That harbinger of winter, in my humid coastal city, as the temperature cools and the air turns itself opaque. It happened within moments, while shopping with my roommate for ingredients for our official welcoming winter meal. We entered the store through clear air and emerged into mist. I feel comforted […]

Irreplaceable

Lately it seems a few things around here are are burning out. My electric kettle has chosen this week to cease its functioning. It was on the fritz for awhile, and now it’s not coming on at all. My bathroom lightbulbs have also both gone out within days of each other, as if they planned […]

New Traditions

Today I went to the Christmas market with my brother and sis-in-law. It’s the third year we’ve done it so I think that makes it a tradition? The holiday traditions I grew up with don’t exist so much now. For one thing, my grandparents would always host big Christmas meals for the extended family, and […]

Wild Places

There are some wild places around here. Sometimes I think there’s a lot less separating what’s real and what’s fantasy than we might believe. Just as mind-body dualism is an oversimplification of what it means to be, “real-fantasy” doesn’t give credit to the complexity of our existence. We have infinite, entire worlds created by creative […]

Colourful

Life didn’t go the way I planned. But it’s certainly turning out more colourful than I ever could have hoped for.

It’s Okay

It’s okay to be tired. It’s okay to say no. It’s okay to be uninspired. It’s okay if you don’t know. It’s okay if you make mistakes. It’s okay to stand your ground. It’s okay if you feel happy. It’s okay if you feel sad. It’s okay if you feel many things deeply. It’s not […]

In Between Day

Today was an in-between day. When you travel for awhile and then come back home, it takes a bit of time to adjust. I’m not just talking about jet lag, although there is that. But there’s also climate lag (like when you’ve gone from the warm sunny tropics to cold rainy almost-winter), and people lag […]

Rainy Return

In true “Raincouver” style, a wet welcome awaited me when my plane landed in Vancouver. After spending the last nearly two weeks enveloped in warmth and surrounded by palm trees and turquoise seas, I was not looking forward to returning to a grey rainy November. There’s a certain comfort in the rain though, the cool […]