Thirteen
Thirteen years abroad today, and my life elsewhere has reached its adolescence. It has some questions about the promises it was raised on. How can a place become so much of who you are while remaining unsure what to do with you?
Thirteen years abroad today, and my life elsewhere has reached its adolescence. It has some questions about the promises it was raised on. How can a place become so much of who you are while remaining unsure what to do with you?
There are moments we remember not because they changed what came next, but because they briefly returned us to a scale larger than whatever was closing in. I did not yet know what the following days would bring. I only knew that, for one Icelandic evening, nothing required an argument from me, and the world was vast enough to hold what I could not yet name.