In today’s new Longreads essay, Montserrat Andrée Carty writes about family and identity, growing up around different languages and cultures, and eventually embracing (and loving) her name over time.
We seek to become the truest version of ourselves, but what if there isn’t one true version, but multiple? Like father, like daughter, there are two versions of me.
At 5, I spoke all these languages fluently. Today, I only speak two of them, but understand all of them in some way, as they still live inside me.
Read her beautiful personal essay on Longreads.
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Misty Memories 01
By Jeff Stanford, 2024
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Do you ever feel like you don't belong anywhere? Like there is no place and no people for you?
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Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street
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The earth belongs to anyone who stops for a moment, gazes and goes on his way; the whole sun belongs to the naked lizard who basks in it.
-- Colette
(Konstanz, Germany)
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Deema K. Shehabi, ed. by Nathalie Handal, from The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology; “The Cemetry at Petit Saconnex”
[Text ID: "I wonder if you think of exile, / and how this land now fills our blood / with roots of belonging."]
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Gentiluomo in villeggiatura, 1964. Giorgio de Chirico, 1888 - 1978. Oil on canvas.
A solitary figure seems adrift in a world that is both familiar and strange.
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My life is wrapped in your own,
So much in common we share,
I realize when I read your lines.
How precious to know I am not alone,
That my heart intersects with yours,
And in the embrace of our humanity,
We find ourselves to feel we belong.
e.v.e.
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