Nisan ayında salgın dönemiyle ilgili ilk kez yazarken kendi kısa tarihçemdeki bazı olaylarla bu salgın arasında benzerlikler yakalamaya çalışmış, belirsizlik içindeki zihnimin sarmallarında gezintiye çıkmıştım. Salgının başından beri herhalde ömrümde görüp görebileceğim çoğu duygusal geçişi yaşadım. Adına değişim, uyum ya da transformasyon diyebileceğiniz her türlü […]

What great lives we have, I thought. Despite everything, we live good lives, well deserved. Everyone has ups and downs but we get to an equilibrium at one point or the other. Maybe not always an equilibrium but at least some kind of ease… Life […]

We build or burn bridges out of plain words. Words – which can be interpreted in any way we want them to be – do not have much choice but to obey. Was it this? Was it that? Am I understood? Do I deserve it? […]

Days later we came to realize that it was inevitable. This was real – our dream. This was our future together. Bright skies and marshmallow clouds, birds chirping over our heads and us living in that greenery, far away from uninvited crowds… That was quite […]

Sometimes -or maybe most of the time- what you see is just the tiny bit of reality and with that small bit you try to make your own big world. You feel joy, you feel excited, you think everybody is good intentioned, you listen and […]