Thank you so much for this piece! It was slightly to eerie to read, as someone about to move temporarily to Barcelona (the place of my mum's heritage) as a digital nomad with the same feeling of having many homes and yet none, having a huge network yet feeling curiously disconnected. You're a fantastic writer for capturing this.
Thank you for this feedback! I'm really touched, and so glad the piece resonated with you. How cool that you are moving to Barcelona soon and that you have history there. It's a wonderful city - maybe one day we can have a writer's meetup. - Isabela
I don’t know why (and I wish I didn’t feel this way) but when I read such elegant, poignant prose I feel sick. It’s as though faced with such artful beauty it forces me to deal with the fact that I’m not producing work like this. This is the second time I’ve experienced this recently and I’m only too aware that it’s something only I can deal with.
Please take my comment as a compliment on the piece and certainly not a criticism. I had to express it somewhere as it’s something I’ve not shared with anyone, not a single living soul. Here feels safe, contained from the rest of my life.
Isabela here — this is such a raw and honest reflection. I appreciate that you shared it. As writers, I think we are wont to constantly compare ourselves to others and their writing. If it makes you feel any better, when I look at my work, I usually don't see elegant, poignant prose but a thousand and one things that I should change, or that I know other writers could do better. It's a constant struggle but hang in there — what really matters is letting your own authentic voice come through. xo
Thank you so much for this piece! It was slightly to eerie to read, as someone about to move temporarily to Barcelona (the place of my mum's heritage) as a digital nomad with the same feeling of having many homes and yet none, having a huge network yet feeling curiously disconnected. You're a fantastic writer for capturing this.
Thank you for this feedback! I'm really touched, and so glad the piece resonated with you. How cool that you are moving to Barcelona soon and that you have history there. It's a wonderful city - maybe one day we can have a writer's meetup. - Isabela
How wonderful! Bittersweet and so honest. How delicious your ability to sweep us through time, taste and place so effortlessly. Beautifully served! UM
Such an evocative piece about places external and internal - Bravo.
So beautiful. This essay made me tear up, I could feel the words and their effect in my bones 🥹
Ah, thank you for these kind words! ❤️
A travelogue, food diary, and impressions from maybe the pages of a journal...every provocative paragraph transported me a continent away. Gorgeous.
Thank you so much!
I don’t know why (and I wish I didn’t feel this way) but when I read such elegant, poignant prose I feel sick. It’s as though faced with such artful beauty it forces me to deal with the fact that I’m not producing work like this. This is the second time I’ve experienced this recently and I’m only too aware that it’s something only I can deal with.
Please take my comment as a compliment on the piece and certainly not a criticism. I had to express it somewhere as it’s something I’ve not shared with anyone, not a single living soul. Here feels safe, contained from the rest of my life.
Isabela here — this is such a raw and honest reflection. I appreciate that you shared it. As writers, I think we are wont to constantly compare ourselves to others and their writing. If it makes you feel any better, when I look at my work, I usually don't see elegant, poignant prose but a thousand and one things that I should change, or that I know other writers could do better. It's a constant struggle but hang in there — what really matters is letting your own authentic voice come through. xo