As I sit here trying to connect to the natural world around me, I can’t help but feel incredibly separate. I’m wearing overalls and a heavy jacket, my ears double-covered with a beanie and headphones. I sit on top of a picnic table to avoid getting a wet butt from the mud seeping through my […]
Month: September 2025
Quiet biodiversity
The wind was genuinely insane today. I pondered if I should just return home but eventually decided to face adversity and be brave. Last time I came here, I sat at a bench nearby a tree, kind of in the middle of the park itself. This time, the waves colliding even more agressively than usual […]
#2: Changing seasons, changing Geneva
I think I’ve settled on a sit spot. Surprisingly, it’s none of the areas within my student residence I predicted I’d spend all my time at. My sit spot is Parc Barton, a roughly ten minute walk from my school’s campus or a fifteen minute bus ride from the student residence.. The park is right […]
Cautiously Optimistic
Whenever I mentioned to people that I was studying in Copenhagen for the fall semester, I was met with widening eyes and warnings about the weather. The infamously harsh winters of Denmark seemed to dominate people’s impression of the city, and I arrived with a suitcase full of winter clothes. But sitting here, as the […]
Post #2: City, Nature, In Between
I am constantly reminded of how close my little piece of nature is to the city. They overlap and intertwine, they are one and the same. It’s different than at home, at Wellesley or in Michigan. Here, there is always noise. Children playing and babies crying, the rumbling of city trucks and workers raking the […]
POST #2: Birds, Trash and Duckweeds
Birds, trash, and duckweeds were the three things that caught my attention while I was walking along Regent’s Canal. As I walked back to college, I passed by a canal. I had always crossed that bridge, but I didn’t know exactly what it was for. Then I noticed several people crossing that bridge. At first, […]
The Castle Garden
Take a right at the volleyball court, a left at the old gate, walk through the graveyard, the along the residential street, across the big road and through the opening in the old stone wall, you’ll find yourself in Sorgenfri Slotshaven, my new neighborhood’s old castle garden. If you continue on the middle winding path […]
Land of a Thousand Winds
I found a new sit spot. This one is next to a pond as well, but a more sheltered one. I can’t see the construction anymore. People pass by but we’re all here for the same reason. I notice the wind especially. It is very rainy here, and the weather drastically changes up every few […]
Paulson ISF Post 1
I write this blog from not a sit spot, but from the senses I experienced while on a walk in the town of Oxford, where I will be studying. This is one of the first few times I am exploring the town in depth, and I have that excitement that comes when someone is exploring […]
POST #1: A stop between past and future
I write this first post directly from London. I have just arrived an hour ago, and I haven’t yet had time to find a corner to call “home” in this new city. So, before I root myself here, I want to share a place from my old home in Brazil This place is in Bangu, […]