Essays, Reflections, Postcards, Letters

Letters to guide you over the threshold.

This is where I share my observations and hard-won insights. Letters about becoming, about self-reclamation, about the specific exhaustion of being the strong one — and what happens when you finally let yourself be.

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Latest Love Letter ・June 2026

Waiting to be barefoot

Last month, sitting on a catamaran in the Aegean Sea, I heard a voice. Clearly enough that I looked up to find its source. But no one was there — only open water.

You need to be barefoot more often.

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Everything that did not get into a letter.

Once a month, a Love Letter arrives in your inbox. In between, there are smaller things — postcards, half-finished thoughts, a meal worth remembering — that never quite became a letter of their own. Here’s where I keep them, for anyone who wants a little more.

The Particular Isolation of Asking Hard Questions

There's the isolation that comes from standing your ground, and there's the one that comes from never trying. What choosing one over the other actually costs.
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Third Places and the Lost Art of Hanging Out

A card game outside a rundown café in Lisbon, gone now, along with the old-timers who played it. On what disappears when there's nowhere left
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Hospitality as a Sacred Practice

Across cultures and centuries, welcoming someone into your home has never been treated as mere logistics. It's treated as sacred.
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Living the Question of Summer

Saudade has been described as a pleasure you suffer, an ailment you enjoy — the intersection of melancholy and nostalgia.
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Home, Identity, and the Stories We Carry

We use stories to catalog our experiences, to provide coordinates and plotlines, which help us make sense and meaning of our lives.
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Wisdom in Dark

This is not going to be a self-congratulatory letter — much like the posts that populated social media the next day — extolling “how I
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