Category: Ramblings

I’m moving out this week. Only for a little while, one semester, so it kind of slipped my notice. But the fact remains; I’ll be moving out soon. I’ll call a different place my home. Letters that are addressed to me will now carry an English street name, one that I’m not used to yet….

Rome is one of those cities that is so full with beautiful things, you can’t really take a wrong turn because you’re sure to find a beautiful church or building down the road that you weren’t supposed to take. So, there’s not really such a thing as a ‘wrong turn’, just lucky accidents (which did…

In space, any possible event can be placed into three classes; events after a certain event A (from which light emanates in ever-growing circles, building a light cone) and events before that event A which are in the inverted “past” light cone leading to A. And then there’s the third, called the elsewhere of A….

I’ll be home when the blackbirds sing and the sun rises in the evening   I’ll be home when I walk on the sky and earth is hanging above us when the mountains go inwards and the seas are upended when the stars are dark and the whole firmament blazing with gold   I’ll be…

When humankind felt they had done all there was to do on earth and wanted to come closer to God than they ever had before, it was decided that they would build a miracle, a tower so high and mighty, it would reach into heaven and they would come to know God, and thus be…

A river is a river is a river is a river. It can not help it. It can not change its course, decide on a whim to start streaming upwards. A river is a river is a river is a river. But we are not. We are our own gardener, we know where we need…

do you know the place where thistles grow, and lilies, too?   do you know the place where aching is inevitable, and so is its reward; newfound hope?   do you know the place where love is boundless, and so is death?   do you know the place where darkness reigns, and so does light?…

Whoever it was that made the mountains tall and the stars far-away and bright must have known about beauty and life, and the strangeness of it all. How come there’s an earth so perfectly tailor-made for every little being to co-exist; there’s the bees, which live their own little busy lives, with social ladders to…

I forgot how much I love going to the cinema. In the past few weeks I’ve seen three films from this award season and each time I walked out of the movie theatre in somewhat of a daze, asking myself why the hell I hadn’t done this for so long. The great movies themselves aside,…

you are more than the parts of your sum more than all the cells that make up this body of yours because you keep them together with your quick wit and your ability to make someone laugh who feels like crying and your persistence to always see the good in others   you are more…

I never used to like art all that much. Maybe that’s a weird thing to say. It’s not that I’ve actively disliked it, it’s just that I didn’t particularly care for it. I’d walk through galleries and not really feel the connection I knew I was supposed to feel, the joy of looking at something…

I’m a firm believer in New Year’s Resolutions. As the year is drawing to its close, I’ve spoken to a few people about resolution-making and noticed that there’s a wide variety of opinions to be had on the matter, ranging from appalled at the idea and the whole humdrum surrounding it, to people who never…