These past weeks have been slow and uneventful.
It’s been raining quite a lot here in The Hague and I had no desire to be online. The act of scrolling on social media bored me to the bone, whilst also making me quite sad.
I’ve been thinking about how life unfolds, in routines and habits, small surprises here and there. Sometimes we colour out of line, for a very brief time. I guess I always craved and waited impatiently for the big surprises, the things that shake us to the core and make us pivot. In other ways, the other ways that life can unfold but this. I had glimpses of other lives, at dinner parties in the French countryside or at festivals in the British countryside (there’s something about countrysides and revelations), but those glimpses were nothing but that, brief experiences of other ways of living and being, very far away from how life unfolds at the moment.
Maybe I am so infatuated with visiting new places because of my romantic view on them: catalysts for big changes, different ways of seeing life, connecting with other people that we might have never met otherwise. Beyond what is expected of us, beyond how we thought that we wanted to live our life.
This Week’s Curation
The Unremembered Places by Patrick Baker
Scotland remains a mystery to me. Its wildness, its unremembered places, its ways of alluring people into the past and the present.
Real Estate by Deborah Levy
I’m rereading this autobiographical book written by Deborah Levy.
Anam Cara by John O'Donohue
On candlelight perception.
Dinner Inspiration
People
Jenni Dawes & her beautiful curations for The Paris Chapter. Thank you, Jenni, for mentioning my piece In The Right Place, At The Right Time in your newsletter.
Thank you for reading. As always, if you want to say hi, you can book a call here.
Lovely read. I feel the same about new places: I always derive so much inspiration & come back with a renewed sense of what it means to be human. Meeting new people, watching people in a foreign place live, eating their food, sitting in their cafes & walking their streets always makes me realise how beautiful the human experience is.