if 2020 was the year we hemmed in the borders — of our travels, our social circles, the portions of our closet where the tight things loom — 2021 was the year we began to remember how to live. it’s been shaky, flooded with questions of do-I-know-how-to-do-this-anymore and do-I-still-like-this-shit-even trailed by every nebulous strain of free-floating existential dread, but in the rosy lens of reflection I’m reliving the moments I brushed against something else.
this was one of those moments, on a boat at sunset in santorini, the aegean-assyrtiko-affection trifecta coalescing into what our limited language tends to want to call perfection.
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