It is hard: coming back home and suddenly feeling a teenage again -our worst and very probably most insecure years-. You’ve changed and reshaped your life at least twenty times, nonetheless, everything here seems to be stuck in time. So, of course, you are the one who is different, ungrateful, [...]
The Monkey Forest is a lung in the center of Ubud, Bali. It is a real forest in the middle of the city where hundreds of mischievous monkeys live and find protection amongst its trees, temples and around the passing creek.
An exchange in which the chefs simultaneously move their entire restaurant to the other side of the world, so as many lucky people sit in the Rijksmuseum’s eating the most fantastic Indonesian food from the best restaurant in Indonesia, I will have the opportunity to be here, in Bali, sampling [...]
I was born and raised in Mexico City, one of the largest and most populated cities in the world. It’s estimated that 21 million live in the mega-metropolis. But it wasn’t until I left to travel the world that I understood what it felt like being one amongst the 21,000,000 Mexicans with whom I [...]
Judith, I’ve been meaning to write this since… who knows when? I can’t even remember accurately how much time has passed since we started our trip together. Sometimes I feel it’s been one or two years, but most of the time I feel it’s been a lifetime, and I end up wondering if it was […]
I call you because for the past few years that is what we’ve been doing half of the time: talking on the phone separated my thousands of miles. And as I type “few years” I’m surprised of the passing of time [as always] but especially of the time I’ve spent by your side. Who would […]
- December 09, 2018
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- fairy tale, love, love letter, relationships
- Cartas, English, Palabras
There are periods in life that are just weird, harsh, different. Periods in life that we remember for ever. In a way, those are probably the best; the ones that prevail, the ones we talk about afterwards repeating ourselves unceasingly; the ones from which memories are made of, sometimes short [...]
I’ve been thinking about writing every single day since the past… how many years, Judith? When was it that we were first here, in Indo? That I felt “jatuh cinta dengan negara ini”?; that I realized deep inside my heart that writing was the only thing that had ever given me peace… complete peace [...]
- July 15, 2018
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- amor, doubts, escritura, indonesia, mother tongue, sel-publishing, writing
- Cartas, English, Palabras