Dear L, Recently I found an activity that I seem to enjoy quite a lot; making my dinner at a grocery store salad bar. It's a habit that I can't seem to shake, something that I was doing quite regularly during my long trip through Scandinavia.…
Dear L, I was on a bike for about two months on a trip through Scandinavia. It was a lot of fun and some discomfort. But during my trip I had some glimpse of a type of loneliness that I never felt before; it's the kind of loneliness…
Dear L, Once our English teacher asked us to write a letter home about a train journey. In India, overnight train journeys aren’t uncommon. I spent most of my overnight journeys in second-class sleepers, which meant open breezy windows, noisy coaches & sheetless beds or berths as they are…
Dear L, I remember a time when a dream of climbing Matterhorn wasn’t unrealistic — even downhill mountain biking was not alien. Everything was somehow possible — from snowboarding off the steep ends of Chamonix to trekking until the tall walls of Baffin islands. In my naivety, all I needed was…
Dear L, Obsessions are funny and muses are mysterious. They hold me together; they drive me wild. Best, A Inside the World of High-End Coffee | Annals of Obsession [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adCKCOCSGpg] The Most Beautiful Icicle: Apollo 11 [https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n16/inigo-thomas/…