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amsterdam
- Jun 11, 2019 notes from amsterdam
at sea
- Oct 4, 2019 the world seen from sea
barcelona
- Jul 28, 2019 fight or flight in barcelona
berlin
- Apr 27, 2021 the vaccine: leaving berlin
- Jan 29, 2021 letter no. 5 from berlin: six transition moments
- Mar 10, 2020 berlin, past present future
childhood place
- Apr 28, 2020 elegy on a sunday morning
- Mar 10, 2019 adulthood
dark place
- Apr 27, 2021 the vaccine: leaving berlin
- Jan 29, 2021 I calculated how long it takes me to get over a man
- Feb 13, 2020 bad things can happen to us
- Apr 17, 2019 antarctica
in the embrace
- Apr 24, 2019 tango therapy
- Apr 3, 2019 tango love
- Mar 20, 2019 tango theatre
- Jan 9, 2019 tango addiction
japan
- Apr 1, 2020 the japanese houses of grandfather buddhist priest
london
- Feb 22, 2020 10 ways of seeing London
mongolia
- Apr 10, 2019 essays from a mongolian spring
new york
- May 4, 2021 the vaccine: new york
- Aug 11, 2019 return to new york
nowhere
- Apr 27, 2021 the vaccine: leaving berlin
- Jan 29, 2021 I calculated how long it takes me to get over a man
- Mar 19, 2020 fleeing europe
- Feb 13, 2019 tell me about my country
- Jan 30, 2019 my dreamer tries to forget
paris
- Mar 19, 2020 fleeing europe
- Feb 11, 2020 paris in 9 moments
- Jan 28, 2020 this paris life
- Jan 21, 2020 crossing worlds to paris
- Jun 27, 2019 three days in paris
somewhere in america
- Sep 4, 2019 the house of worldly things
- Mar 27, 2019 chicken feathers
the pandemic
- May 4, 2021 the vaccine: new york
turkey
- Mar 3, 2023 earthquake country

Posts in in the embrace

tango therapy

tango therapy

when life and love are weighing me down, tango might make me feel worse. but sometimes it doesn’t. sometimes i’m lucky and it’s so good it’s like therapy.

in the embraceKening ZhuApril 24, 2019all writing

tango love

tango love

tango was never about love. in tango, you’ll see the one you love dance all night with other women — their eyes closed, enveloped in him. in tango, you’ll close your eyes to try and imagine

in the embraceKening ZhuApril 3, 2019all writing

tango theatre

tango theatre

she told me that the milonga felt like home and i thought — no way. no milonga could feel like home for me when even home takes effort to feel like home.

in the embraceKening ZhuMarch 20, 2019all writing

tango addiction

tango addiction

we talk about our tango addiction and laugh. as if getting in the car at midnight to drive an hour to a milonga was something normal people did.

in the embraceKening ZhuJanuary 9, 2019all writing