I’ve been on a wild adventure these past two months. There has been something happening in every area from partnerships to relationships to friendships to life in general. I attended two funerals, met countless people, started reading again, started writing poetry again, started taking pictures again. I established my company with the help of an […]

I’m now six months without being able to find a job. In that time, I’ve gotten involved in countless creative endeavors ranging from organizing casual events to markets to an outright festival. I did my first-ever (group) gallery exhibit, and now I’m trudging along with my solo show coming up in February. This week, I […]

So much is always happening. In the latest turn of events, I’m opening a gallery in a few weeks. I came to Iceland in March of 2023 with the goal of living in the middle of nowhere and opening an art gallery. Things didn’t go as planned. I became miserable and was forced to learn […]

I keep trying to write something, then feel like I’m not expressing myself well and delete it. I saw a dance performance yesterday, Flóðreka, which was beautiful. Jónsi, the mastermind, had an immersive exhibit in Hafnarús last year which I visited twice. I missed it ever since, and this performance was his continuation. Seeing it […]

The thought of writing my next book looms over me. Rather, it’s the idea of starting to write. It always feels impossible to get started. I think part of that is the topic: how I want to address the grand idea of modern society and how life is lived. I want to highlight the impact […]

A bit over one year ago, my life was going through quite a few rapid changes. As part of that change, I decided to look at rings for the sake of it. I must have looked at every ring for sale in the entire country before deciding on one ring which, to me, was pure […]

I’ve taken on a few more projects. I’m now helping to organize a weekend-takeover performance series at a local market/hub. I have an official book launch event on the 10th. And with the motivation of some recent events, I’m organizing an open discussion on the job market and workplace experiences. That’s on top of setting […]

Many of my favorite philosophers explore the ideas of suffering and what it means. Emil Cioran, who I write about often, claims that life is a terrible thing, and we should all want to die: the act of resisting this desire is what makes us “meaningful.” The intensity to which he expresses these ideas in […]

Someone I had no issues with unfollowed me on Instagram and kicked me off their account as well. This is an ex-work-related person, so I assume this happened as I left in a rain of fire without me noticing until now. I find it funny because the last thing this person told me was, “Be […]

Life explodes and explodes again, sometimes like a firework, sometimes like a nuclear bomb. I learned someone isn’t who I thought they were — perhaps not a close friend, but apparently they were no friend at all. I was elected to the board I ran for, and it looks like I’ll have the position of […]

This is my seventh attempt at writing a blog since my last. For whatever reason, I can’t properly express whatever it is that I want to. One of my unpublished posts was about how there’s so much happening right now and that being the reason I’ve been unable to write. But things keep happening, and […]

I was approved for unemployment benefits yesterday, and thanks to some “wise” decisions I made in the past year, I am now receiving more money than I was making at my job (after switching to part-time). It’s ironic in many ways, especially thinking of all the emails I sent out when I first moved to […]

I began writing in 2023 when I discovered the Bukowski poem that inspired me to try writing poetry myself. Since then, I wrote a lot. However, I never knew what to do with the hundreds of pieces scattered around my digital world. I decided it was finally time to put together a collection: Under Starless […]

Every time something bad happens in my life, I become overwhelmed for some time by the event itself and the repercussions. However, everything always works out in the end. I’ll never forget my time in Hveragerði two years ago when I felt the worst I ever had, thinking that it was truly impossible for anything […]

I was up until 2am this morning, running between my bedroom and my kitchen to collect bowls and containers. Every 10 minutes or so in the night, a new crack decided to open up in my window frame, letting in the pouring rain until the entire window became one large faucet (right on top of […]

Over the past few months, I’ve been writing down meaningful feelings or experiences in the form of story ideas. I write down what stood out as well as the actual event that prompted the writing. My plan is to incorporate everything, somehow, into either short stories or a book. I only just wrote about how […]

I read Youth by J. M. Coetzee which was recommended to me by the “wisest man” who I’ve written about before. Today, I finally compiled my collection of thoughts and quotes into a review. Writing that review gave me yet further appreciation of the book: it’s a raw picture of humanity in the modern world […]

I wrote a blog post yesterday, but I was interrupted in the middle. I started writing another, but it didn’t quite express what I wanted to. So I deleted both of them. It’s a frustrating feeling to have this urge to say something — to express something — yet not be able to. The past […]

I got a talking-to today at work. I won’t be surprised if I’m fired soon. The topic of my blog came up, related to the cheating incident: my blog has been “discovered.” It was unrelated to the talk I received, but I write about my life. Work is part of my life; naturally, I spend […]

I finished reading Boyhood by J. M. Coetzee yesterday. I started reading this after “the wisest man in Iceland” recommended another book by the author: Youth. Upon learning this was part of a sequence of books, I started with the first one. When I finished, I decided it was finally time to update my book […]