So originally I was gonna write about the history of Valentines Day (happy Valentines Day) but I ended up getting sucked into my finances and future plans. One of the best things about being back in the states is being able to spend time with my cat. My parents have monopolized on this by using…… Continue reading The Confusing Reality of Adulthood
Tag: loneliness
Silence (Happy New Year!)
Hi Friend, happy new year! I hope you had a great time in Iceland, sadly without me. We will try again next year (or perhaps I will be in Germany? Who knows??) Anyway, I am sitting here in silence, and it is causing me to reflect a lot on the word and concept. Recently a…… Continue reading Silence (Happy New Year!)
Homesickness: And yet, they grow old too.
Dear Lucia, How’s it going, my man? Miss you as always. In fact, missing people is the whole point of this bletter. I have been thinking a lot about what it means to live abroad and build a life “from nothing” recently, and I wanted to share some thoughts/ ramblings with you. To start of…… Continue reading Homesickness: And yet, they grow old too.
A Post With No Point.
Dear Lucia, I am currently on break from work. I get an hour and a half of paid break a day- one hour of lunch and one hour for a coffee later on. You know Icelanders and their coffee. I usually take my first hour at 13-14 for lunch, go home since I live close,…… Continue reading A Post With No Point.
How To Start A Garden: A Review Part Two (Electric Boogaloo)
Dear Lucia, I hope you have a wonderful time reading my song by song analysis of Nanna’s Album How To Start a Garden! I am absolutely obsessed with this album and have been listening to it (almost) exclusively in the days since it came out. You will notice this is a part two because I…… Continue reading How To Start A Garden: A Review Part Two (Electric Boogaloo)
How To Start A Garden: A Slight Fanatics Review
“How To Start A Garden” is the debut album of Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdottir, most well known for her role as guitarist, lyricist, and singer in Of Monsters And Men. Of Monsters And Men started as Nannas solo project, Songbird, but when the group won Músíktilraunir (lit. trans: the music experiments), an annual Icelandic young musicians…… Continue reading How To Start A Garden: A Slight Fanatics Review