All roads (mis)lead to you

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✦ Fragments from the (brain)fog: notes and sketches from 2023 – 2025, rediscovered, scanned, and transcribed. Small surprises, often for me too, that I carefully try to untangle.

It’s not what I want,
but I can’t get around it;
a detour,
a roadblock,
a worn-in path.

This is a dead end,
yet I keep following,
off track,
destination not reached;
now I am nowhere.

One-way traffic,
who drives the wrong way?
my compass upset,
navigation useless,
you (re)main magnetic.

✶ The place that pulls; against your better judgement you end up there unintentionally — almost unknowingly — time and again. A habit, a thought, an emotion, a person, a conviction. Who or what is your magnetic 'you'?

✦ Image is from the precious matters personal collection, now part of this growing archive. A lifetime of small moments, gathered with care: fragments of a soft universe in the making.

✧ Originally written in Dutch by Merel Slootheer. Translated with care and intuition by Blackbird Ditchlord.