well, i did it. i posted every single day for a year. for whatever that’s worth

elina is making me hang out with her estonian parents who speak zero english, so she’s rounded up her middle sister’s boyfriend henry to translate for us LOL

(by the way: stamps are somehow €3.90 a piece in this otherwise cheap country, so i will be sending your postcards from germany for 1/4th the cost! oops!!)

monty and i are always sending each other pictures of pigeons lol

this estonian pigeon chilled with me while i was waiting for emel to show up. then he flew into the bright blue sky, and was gone!

Tallinn native and my old friend Emel-Elizabeth said: “Here we are. This is the sea.”

Said I: “Wait— don’t move. I want to take a picture so I can caption this Emel by the Sea.”

And so saying, she obliged me by assuming the position.

I was going through my computer and found this lone picture of my trip to LA with Monty and Laura and Gayle. Laura took this . . . that’s us sitting in Echo Park with Danielle on what I now know, many years later, was one of the best days of my life. I wish I’d known that at the time! But how could I have . . . ?

I miss Danielle so much. I wonder if I’ll ever see her again. And I wonder if Monty and Laura and Gayle and I will ever go on a trip together again like we used to . . . Of course, this was in 2018, which was a completely different world. That world is gone now, yet we remain, so I suppose anything is possible . . .