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From Kuala Lumpur, Berlin, and places in between: a newsletter about how we seek and tell stories to make sense of a changing world & our place in it…
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Eating with other people's families
Thinking about everyday feasts and reunions, surprising human connections, and the lives that happened before us.
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Ways of Writing
Can travel writing be redeemed? An essay based on a reading of Tim Hannigan's Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre.
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A woman out in the world
What I've learnt from more than a decade exploring the world on my own, and what it means to me.
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Waggle dancing
A tentative first step in discovering new stories for the table: on growing, eating, and sharing food equitably in a rapidly warming world.
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Recapturing memories in a place I loved before: a fool's quest?
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Kaori Fujimoto: What we give when we give money to the dead
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Landmarkings #16
Findings, vol. 2
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Findings, vol. 2
Stories old and new & some of life's good things.
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Recapturing memories in a place I loved before: a fool's quest?
On revisiting Nusa Penida, now that it's become a popular destination for crowds of daytrippers from mainland Bali. (Really an essay about rethinking…
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Photodrop: Glimpses of KL, 2015-
Some of these places you won't ever see this way again.
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Homing pigeon
A personal journey through the Chinatowns of Kolkata, London, and Guatemala City.
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Landmarkings #17
Notes & readings on how we “see” the world and tell its stories.
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Landmarkings #16
Notes and links on how we “see” the world & tell its stories. (I'm changing up this series a bit.)
Findings, vol. 1 (though it's not really vol. 1)
Stories old and new & some of life's good things.
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Movable Worlds
Movable Worlds
From Kuala Lumpur, Berlin, and places in between: a newsletter about how we seek and tell stories to make sense of a rapidly changing world & our personal and collective place in it.
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