"People keep asking me if i plan to stay in DC, and it makes me laugh. Sometimes I laugh because after living in 10 countries, the idea of settling in one city, let alone one country, is still unfathomable. I don't want to be a tree rooted to one place only; I want to be the wind, caressing the curves of earth and moving at whatever pace I will across the world. I want to be the water, part and not part, soaking up and giving back, but separate and omnipresent in essence."
"I laugh because I dream about dissolving, vanishing, and reinvention. I dream, and yet I stay. I learn every day about what place means, about how we as people carry place within ourselves and cauterize the wounds of loss; about the porousness of hearts and minds, allowing us to absorb whole galaxies."
"Right now, I find the joy of adventure in unexpected experiences; in the little bits of beauty saturating the world at the corner of our vision; and in learning to translate myself from world to world instead of vanishing. Maybe I will leave DC tomorrow. Maybe I will stay. What I hope is that every day here, I become a little more technicolour--a little more full, vibrant, and philanthropic a human being."
