However you found your way here, welcome! I’m Emily, and I write letters about how we seek and tell stories to make sense of a changing world and our place in it.
I’ve been wanting to write about Berlin. Not so much on the level of journalistic curiosity yet (though there’s plenty keeping me curious), but more a kind of personal accounting, how I came to it and how I’ve started to find my way around it. Often, though, when you know a place will play a larger role in your life in times to come, is beginning to, when every return builds on the last one, it can be a more complicated task to put into actual words how you feel about it. I’ll come around to it soon enough, perhaps in the order of fragments, as that has been my experience of the city, but for now, here’s a belated photodrop to round up the end of 2023. It’s mostly vibes I want to remember, now that I’m back in KL, where the texture of life again feels very different…
