i don't know why i made this page. a collection of some sorts. a memory. home / collections
happy, fond, comforted
rain after a heatwave (please let it rain soon)
a foal hiding behind its mother
getting to play football with kids
the crunch of first snow
the neighbours cat who's always happy to see me
the feeling of water on my chest
sad
the remnants of the school i, my dad, and both my grandfathers went to
angry
theo "it's warm for a few days and suddenly everyone is going to die" francken
scared, helpless
the series of heatwaves we've had since june
the hate campaigns about trans people in the us and uk. the way prominent belgian politicians seem to look up to us and uk politics.
my oma's stubbornness, how she drives her car when she cannot see, how she bikes to us during a heatwave, how she insists on stacking wood and needs to sit down, but won't.
everything and other
visiting de westhoek with my opa. musea, graves, monuments. going to that one gelato place in ypres, then the menenpoort. learning about the bombs and the gas and the illness, and how the poppies bloomed. you can say a lot about belgium but by god do the poppies bloom.
my other grandfather explaining to me why our town hates that other town a bit further away. i still don't understand, but i enjoy listening to him talk. he rarely talks. he understands that i don't understand. it was after the war, you see.