Words and Perspectives

I am sitting in my apartment, writing my thesis. It is what I have been doing for the past few months.  Suddenly, my phone starts beeping with an unmistakable sound of an emergency alert, warning about a possible drone detected near the Lithuanian border. — I have never liked that sound and its intrusive, impossible to…

For as long as I can remember myself, I have been afraid of falling. Not just falling, but falling and hurting myself. While other kids skated, rollerbladed or climbed trees, I stayed away from those activities. I was careful and guarded. In my mind, falling and injury were inseparable, so the solution seemed obvious: don’t…

For more than ten years, I’ve worked in contexts most people often read about – places affected by war, natural disasters, instability and human suffering. Places where people do not know where their next meal is coming from, where there is no physical safety or any kind of certainty about the future. I chose this…