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#206 Coincidences
#206 Coincidences
On a recent trip, we boarded our flight in Frankfurt. As we were looking for our seats, a flight attendant looked at me and said, “ah, it’s…
Karim Heredia
Jun 20
#205 The real tragedy
#205 The real tragedy
I find myself every day in familiar spaces for Janne and me. I know exactly…
Karim Heredia
Jun 15
#204 Nurturing
#204 Nurturing
One evening I told Daniel that it was time to turn off the computer…
Karim Heredia
Jun 14
#203 Lost in Translation
#203 Lost in Translation
My sister made a trip and came back with a little souvenir for me: a book about the making of the film “Lost in Translation”. This is my…
Karim Heredia
Jun 10
#202 Echoes
#202 Echoes
Junk mail arrives today I used to say inevitably “your papers!” you laughed unavoidably and devoured them all.
Karim Heredia
Jun 8
#201 Trevor
#201 Trevor
Trevor has a birthday. I feel apprehensive as Daniel felt sad for a whole weekend after his birthday…
Karim Heredia
Jun 3
#200 Liam
#200 Liam
I tell friends when someone plays me in a movie. Jude Law plays me in The Holiday as a widower with two daughters. Denzel Washington plays…
Karim Heredia
Jun 2
#199 The ghost in the back of my head
#199 The ghost in the back of my head
I have a record of music I have listened to since 2006. It’s logical that I was curious…
Karim Heredia
Jun 1
#198 Kingdom
#198 Kingdom
We live on the east side of Tallinn. If I drive, I can be on the highway in minutes. One of the first signs…
Karim Heredia
May 31
#197 Daydreaming
#197 Daydreaming
There is something that happens to everyone: you want to do something, walk to another room and realize that you have forgotten what you…
Karim Heredia
May 26
#196 Treasure
#196 Treasure
There are days that are eternally imprinted in my memory. Try as you might…
Karim Heredia
May 24
#195 Summer rain
#195 Summer rain
The sun is out and it’s warm outside. I’m still surprised about Summer at these high latitudes. From this perspective, I grew up in what is…
Karim Heredia
May 20
#194 Versions
#194 Versions
I am not deterministic. It doesn’t matter if I am bleeding constantly out of the abyss in my heart, I can still influence what happens next…
Karim Heredia
May 19
#193 Marbled happiness
#193 Marbled happiness
This week has been the worst so far. I might know the triggers, but I can just brace for impact. If someone asked recently how I’m doing, I…
Karim Heredia
May 17
#192 Mother’s Day
#192 Mother’s Day
Last Sunday was Mother’s Day in Estonia. I had been dreading this day for a few weeks. It became clear the day before on why.
Karim Heredia
May 13
#191 Dining table
#191 Dining table
I’m not that attached to objects. When we remodeled the house…
Karim Heredia
May 7
#190 Profile photo
#190 Profile photo
That photo was one year in the making.
Karim Heredia
May 3
#189 Detour
#189 Detour
My life with Janne was full of detours. Meeting her was the luckiest of my diversions. We rarely took the straight boring road. Instead, we…
Karim Heredia
Apr 29
#188 Hand of cards
#188 Hand of cards
I don’t panic easily. When Janne and I made a trip to Paris in 2008, she got very sick with fever the day after we arrived…
Karim Heredia
Apr 25
#187 Rome
#187 Rome
This Roman enoteca You would have loved it Spiderwebs…
Karim Heredia
Apr 23
#186 Roman Holiday
#186 Roman Holiday
It’s bizarre to feel happy twice at the same place with such tragedy in between. Nineteen years minus…
Karim Heredia
Apr 20
#185 Honey
#185 Honey
This morning is a perfect example of my new life. I wake up happy. We are taking a trip we are looking forward to. Today Conan releases his…
Karim Heredia
Apr 17
#184 Emerson
#184 Emerson
When I arrived in Montana in 1996, the greatest experience was to find books about anything I wanted to read. My upbringing limited the…
Karim Heredia
Apr 16
#183 Eight months
#183 Eight months
One of the first articles I read about my new life was in the New York Times. The title is “How To Talk To A Widow”. The author, a widow…
Karim Heredia
Apr 13
#182 Don’t Swallow The Cap
#182 Don’t Swallow The Cap
In 2017, I started jogging. My aid was a playlist that I created with the music speed to guide my steps. A song that would kick in right in…
Karim Heredia
Apr 9
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