Tag: zerotohero
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finding alignment in community
Despite my best intentions to deal with my emotions in stillness, I explored Morocco with exhausting speed and determination. I spent as much time traveling between cities as I spent in them. There was an unrelenting pressure to see as much as possible in short windows of time, to show my mother the magic of…
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escaping the resort
I never liked the idea of resorts. I find charm and authenticity to be more appealing than opulence, and resorts have a tendency to reduce a spectacular place to one that can suit the highest number of people in the most general of ways. That’s not to take away from their value in the world.…
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the hammam after the breakup
The break up was brutal. We argued in Porto and left the relationship on unstable ground. I wept, tears stained his shirt, as we hugged goodbye while the taxi waited to take me to the airport. I was going to Morocco to meet my mother for the holiday. The flight was an hour and a…
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putting it out there
I need to put something out there into the world. Anything. Nothing will ever feel good enough and I have far too many unfinished drafts gathering dust so I just have to do it. Even if it’s only a declaration, a public promise to myself that I am brave enough. My worry now is that…
nathalie shushan 