Going through my late father’s library, I picked out two books to read: Umberto Eco’s In the name of Rose and Ferdinand Oyono’s Old Man and a Medal. I used to be an avid reader when I was a kid. I guess I must have inherited it from my late father. Long before the digital […]
On accountability to oneself
Let me tell you about me wanting to learn Croatian. It’s a funny story and there is a learning in it too. Well, at least for me. I love Croatia. I love its people, its beaches, villages, hills and mountains, highways and tiny dirt roads through olive fields. I love its wine and olive oil, […]
What is a humanitarian identity?
I have been contemplating the question of identity for a while. I see many humanitarians defining themselves as aid workers firstly and foremost. And only then, other identities such as a brother, a traveler, an uncle, a teacher, a tech geek, etc show up. The identity of an aid worker seems to be deeply […]
When things start falling apart
Have you ever been in a situation that no matter how steadily and diligently you have been working towards your goals that they were just not happening? Even worse. You might have started noticing that everything started to go sour. And you wondered. Is this some kind of a sign that I am not supposed […]
Thank you 2021! Welcome, 2022!
I have been wanting to do something that would symbolically and also in real life set me off to 2022. There have been many thoughts and emotions from 2021 and I felt I needed to release them. And my coach kept on talking about gratitude journals and then it hit me. I have to write […]
You too can recover from adversity
I have not been writing for a while and that is for a reason. I was in shock. Our sweet playful doggo and a friend of all dogs was attacked by two huge dogs that escaped from their enclosure. What was supposed to be a lovely Sunday morning walk in a forest turned into a […]