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What We Carry: On Belief, Contradiction, and the Architecture of Relationship.
Nobody tells you, when you enter a significant relationship, that you do not arrive alone. You arrive with everything you have ever believed about love, every story you have told yourself about who you are in relationship, what you deserve, what is possible, and what is not. What is rarely spoken about, in most conversations…
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The Friends We Outgrow.
No one tells you that friendships have seasons. Not in any real way. We are given the language of forever, of ride or die, of the friends who will be there no matter what. And we believe it, because at the time it is true, or true enough. What we are not told is that…
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The Highs and Lows of Nostalgia.
There is a particular kind of ambush that nostalgia specialises in. It does not announce itself. It arrives through a scent, a song, a lyric caught at the wrong moment, a street corner that looks exactly as it did years ago. And before you have time to prepare, you are somewhere else entirely, standing inside…
For those that want to stay.
Essays on living, loving and the things that stay
The-Beauty-of-a-Butterfly! 