Dearest reader, Recently, I bought a CD from one of those old fashioned music stores and it felt like living again. In a world, where convenience and personal curation is no longer desired, but expected, doing something as simple as visiting a music shop feels like a scene out of a nostalgic 90s movie. The fact that you actually have to spend time searching what you want while accidentally discovering more than what you came in for, and then, having to wait untill you get ho

Dearest reader, Earlier this year, for a moment, it seemed like there was nothing anyone would rather talk about than Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights reimagined by now notorious Emerald Fennel in an unfaithful adaption staring Margot Robbie as Cathy and Jacod Elordi as Heathcliff. And honestly, among those heated conversations between friends and strangers on whether Emerald ruined the original story, whether Emily would have approved it or what Wuthering Heights even st

Dearest reader, Viime aikoina tai oikeastaan viime kesästä lähtien olen joutunut ottamaan säännöllisesti etäisyyttä Instagramista, joka on eniten käyttämäni sosiaalisen median kanava. Nämä kolmen päivän pikavieroitukset alkoivat toistumaan yhä useammin kun kaikenlainen älytön sisältö rupesi sumentamaan päiviäni, mielikuvitustani, ajatusteni kulkua siten, etten enää osannut sanoa olivatko ajatukset ja haluni omiani vai muiden käsikirjoittamaa höttöistä, klimppistä, puuroa joka

Dearest reader, For as long as I can remember, Month of the Pearl and I have shared a secret mythology that has defined my indentity sometimes literally, sometimes subconciously for most of my life. And while it is perhaps foolish to believe in these fantasies and strange coincidences between Month of the Pearl and my person – that I know – it is at least more fun to live in the moonlight of nonsense, which is why, I have decided to be foolish and sink contentedly into the m

Dearest reader, In 2017 there was hardly anything so horrific in a teenager's life than having you mother point out that the bump on your nose had become more distinct. We were, for goodness sake, living the height of the Instagram-face era: a questionable aesthetic trend, defined by the Kardashian family, that favoured high cheekbones, big lips and conveniently small, neat noses (Tolentino, Jia, 2019) – non of which I possed, least of all a pretty, little nose, but wanted o

Dearest reader, People have been talking about marriage for centuries and I have been thinking about it for years, the past four of them I have spent trying to write about it, and since August, I finally realized I should get it out of my system regardless whether it is important or not. Namenly, at 25, I have at last reached a point where people around me are getting married. My friends in particular have started to look for people to get engaged with, to make potential fia

Dearest reader, I bought a simple bundle of daffodils still in buds from my local supermarket. I was delighted by the thought of those...

Dearest reader, A ballerina Maria Khoreva talked about ballet and beauty in her YouTube video "Ballet Dancer Answers Awkward Questions...

Dearest reader, I can’t stop thinking about Milan. In fact, my ability to focus on anything other than what happened or is happening in...