Dutch Island, Japanese Port: Life Around Dejima During Isolation
If you stand in Nagasaki today, you can walk across a stone bridge and find yourself, quite suddenly, in the Netherlands. The air might smell […]
If you stand in Nagasaki today, you can walk across a stone bridge and find yourself, quite suddenly, in the Netherlands. The air might smell […]
I discover myself, an increasing number of times, haunted by a simple sound: the chime of a notification. It’s the soundtrack of our cutting-edge striving. […]
Imagine a world without the constant buzz of notifications, without the strain of a 24/7 financial machine, and where well-being wasn’t a trend to be […]
Walk into an ancient forest, and you will notice the silence first. But it’s now not an empty silence. It feels thick, alive. It’s in […]
It can happen on the spot. One minute, you are safe in your own kitchen, and the next, a sound or a scent pulls you […]
It’s funny, isn’t it? We spend so much money and time looking to make our houses snug. We wrap them in synthetic materials, seal each […]
There’s a positive kind of magic that takes place whilst you step onto a train, an aircraft, or a dusty course with nobody to reply […]
If you pay attention carefully to the rhythm of Kerala—to the whisper of the backwaters, the bustle of its cutting-edge ports, and the resonant chant […]
It begins subtly, almost as a whisper underneath the cacophony of current life. A lingering feeling of fatigue that coffee can now longer thrust back. […]
There’s a quiet magic that happens while you step off the paved path and into the embodiment of the wild. The fragrance of damp earth […]
For twenty years, I carried two bags. One becomes a camera bag, worn and weathered, filled with lenses that had visible savannahs and rainforests. The […]
For over fifteen years, I’ve worked in the delicate space between childlike wonder and biological reality. My career, spanning zoological education, wildlife rehabilitation, and designing […]
For twenty-five years, my boots have been muddy. They’ve trodden the sodden peat of vanishing bathrooms, crunched the desiccating soil of encroaching deserts, and slipped […]
For over twenty years, my life has been framed via the sound of snapping twigs in dense rainforests, the misty blow of a whale in […]
We’ve all heard the testimonies. The clever crow, the loyal dog, and the mischievous parrot. But for every animal celebrated for its smarts, there are […]
There’s a memory that lives in my bones, one that surfaces whenever town life becomes a continuing, steel hum. It’s the memory of a path […]