No distance

“…I’m still looking forward to spending time with you – your river Seine and your streets, your language and your artists, your slow change that is single-handedly capable of comforting me when capitalist propaganda nags me with ‘produce and progress’ while all I want is to walk, perhaps in peace, definitely in love…” (En savoir plus)

To Vienna

“I think London is waiting for me, with its theatres and River Thames, with love in its air again because I’ll be around again with the usual Parisian sass and finesse. Maybe I’ll give Vienna a visit too, simply because someone beautiful mentioned it on a beautiful morning…” (En savoir plus)

Embrace

“Almost greedily, Paris, I am consuming everything that is beautiful and temporary this morning has to offer for me – everything that is music, everything that is light, everything that is warm, everything that is carnal, and in the process, I feel your embrace embodied. Who knew love isn’t in anything eternal?” (En savoir plus)

Wonderful troubles

“I’m rejoicing in this very hour of freedom, to breathe and to write my heart out from this warm barge on the River Thames under the Albert Bridge and to reach your ears and your heart’s peripheries and make you feel less alone, maybe even less afraid…” (En savoir plus)

It feels quiet

“Can one be on the wrong path when wishing only good things? Can one be on the wrong path wishing no harms on others? Is it enough – wishing and wanting? And which ‘others’ – is there only one? I feel that my questions about the world are no longer fake…” (En savoir plus)

I feel like trusting you

“To experience to be accepted without having to perform is to learn how to love others more unconditionally. Oh, to feel so free! I wouldn’t know which came first – the freedom to be myself or being accepted for myself, but the impact on my journey is profound…” (En savoir plus)

Like your river

“Your river, Paris, she is deep and wide enough for vessels to travel. My heart is deep, and more so in continuous heavy rain, but has it been wide enough for vessels to travel? And is it safe enough for one to stay, especially when it is overflowing? …” (En savoir plus)

My liberated love

“Now, after waves of pain, guilt, and even anger, which surprised my heart a little, I know my rational conviction, my principles are what soothe my pain, because they give meaning to it and meaning is as important as life itself, if not more…” (En savoir plus)

Je suis prête

“I have now learned that it is always there, Paris – the calm, the peace, the joy. It’s only a matter of cultivating and maintaining it at every moment, even when it’s supposed to be a challenging moment. And that, my dear, is the secret of life – only joking…” (En savoir plus)

My dancing heart

“…walked a little along the Seine, spying Notre Dame in the distance with giddiness in my body before picking up mini viennoiseries from the local boulangerie. I am now back in bed, sitting here not feeling blue, spilling my heart to you: Paris, Paris, que je m’en fou!” (En savoir plus)

Staying close

“…I see that you are my block universe, Paris, where everything happens beyond time; where all phases in my life melt together and are aware of each other. I love you beyond space that you don’t cease to exist when I’m not physically there….” (En savoir plus)

Quiet joy

“Joyfully, Paris, I know that everything that I am is gaining momentum. Like clouds, as beautiful as ones I saw above Van Gogh’s grave in Auvers-sur-Oise, gathering and getting thicker. When it rains, it pours. Well, or it drizzles, like English rain – quietly, persistently, joyfully. Either way, Paris, I’m already wet…” (En savoir plus)