I keep finding it important to emphasize the urban setting of my sit spot. It is very much a public park in the middle of a city, full of passersby and trash and noise. To my left, on the bench next to me, a woman is texting. I can hear the sounds of WhatsApp as […]
Month: October 2025
POST #4: Value every grain of rice
Sometimes my sit spot is empty, just me and the canal. Sometimes it’s busy, with all kinds of birds. Sometimes it’s noisy, filled with all sorts of conversations coming from different people. But there are also those I don’t notice — the ones who are at the sit spot only in imagination, or watching from […]
Post #3: A City of Water
I’ve moved benches today in search of the sun. As I closed my eyes and let myself grow roots, I could feel the sun kissing my cheeks, filtering through my eyelids to turn the dark orange and fall-like. I’m not sure what this has to do with roots but it feels important, searching for the […]
The Green Market
Living in Europe for the first time, it’s easy to be drawn in by exciting proximity of so many new places and the ease of travel. Scrolling through instagram and seeing everyone post from a new city every weekend, I had found myself getting caught up in dreams of places that I want to see […]
Water so salty and grid so windy
If my roots reached deep underground, they would stumble upon the layers of sediment from years past. I can’t help but think about certain signs alongside la rambla. These signs talk about fossils (which I still have not figured out if they were found on those locations or not). I was quite happy at the […]
#3: Roots
I’m at Parc Barton imagining roots sprouting from my feet. Parc Barton is uniquely placed within Geneva. Right on the edge of the lake, I imagine my roots extending into the soft earth below the water’s surface. Lac Léman provides my drinking water, and through a system called GeniLac, it also cools my building in […]
No 2. “Place to Sit (Part 2): Or Maybe Swim?”
Time has passed and the question appears – did I find the great sitting spot that I was looking for? No. But let me tell you what happened instead. Last time I mentioned the whole story about culture of movement in Sydney. So as a good international student I decided to surrender myself to this […]
No. 1 “Place to Sit – Or Not”
In the search for the perfect sitting spot – Sydney, here I come. This task might be hard for a couple of different reasons. Since I arrived here, and my semester started quite early because I had to get to Australia at the end of July, I realized that people don’t really sit anywhere in […]
Returning to My Sit Spot; Blog Post #2
When I return to my sit spot, I close my eyes, breathe slowly, and tune into my senses: Sound: I hear distant traffic. There’s a low hum of cars on nearby streets. In my vicinity, I hear rustling leaves, occasional bird calls (a crow?), and the soft creaking of branches swaying in the breeze. Smell: […]
Stillness Beneath the Tree; Blog Post #1
My sit spot is beside a large oak tree near the Sisters Chapel lawn at Spelman College. From where I sit, I can see the pathway that leads toward the center of campus, with benches lining one side and patches of grass and flower beds on the other. Across the open space I can see […]