an ode to friends
Glittering ocean, warm skies, full bodied laughter. I rarely feel as happy as I do, surrounded by friends on 3pm on a Friday, tanned bodies slewn on wooden decks. It’s the early weekend, and people are happy just because the sun is shining. The perfect day, murmured again and again. Devouring bags of licorice and cold beer and sodas, our backs baking in the sun. Feet dangling high above the canal, passing pizza boxes up and down the line, quiet contentment watching the same slow sunset. The Danes have taught me, through embodiment, an art of silent-being-together. The silence is not something to break, but moments to be savored, held, immersed in. Warm, soft, pressed-up hugs, I am so happy to be with you, sun-kissed skin to sun-kissed skin, salt on salt, affection transmitted through skin contact. Laughter, always so much laughter, and conversations all around, openness and closeness. Delicious in its intagibility, this is hygge.
VIEWS MY OWN
I am, among many things, a PhD candidate at MIT AeroAstro. Motivated to always learn, categorize, and create frameworks for my experiences, I write and share reflections on my PhD journey in a collection called fieldnotes. Fieldnotes are detailed observations collected by anthropologists, sociologists, and ethnographers while situated in an environment of interest; the obsessive intensity to learn and grasp and make sense of phenomena during the collection of fieldnotes is the way that feels most reflective of the way I live life.