Short essays. Notes from the road.
Short essays on crisis, memory and coming back. Biały Brzeg.
MAG · 19 July 2026
The first time this year
“The evening was typical and a first at the same time. Statistically ordinary, and yet nobody had seen it before us this season.”
Today we had the chance to drive out for sunset at Hopi Point — though right up to the end we did not know whether we would get there. The rangers…
Read →Pablito · 18 July 2026
There are two of us
“From today Biały Brzeg is written by two people.”
18 July 2026, evening above the Grand Canyon. From today Biały Brzeg is written by two people. MAG publishes in Frames. She photographs what is there…
Read →Pablito · 17 July 2026
A drop of ink
“Twelve good hours lost to fifteen bad minutes. By walkover.”
Page, Arizona. The day was good. Not “all right”, not “bearable” — good. My wife and I got on from the morning, which, travelling with three children…
Read →Pablito · 28 June 2026
Can life be a reward?
“What if every day, every coffee, every moment spent together were a reward?”
I have an observation and a hypothesis about rewards. In life we follow rewards. Rewards can be of many kinds. It might be the morning coffee, it…
Read →Pablito · 27 June 2026
A door open from the inside
“Nobody was holding me. What held me was the certainty that I was being held.”
The worst thing about a locked room is not that it is locked. The worst thing is that the handle is on your side and you cannot see it. For two years…
Read →Pablito · 20 June 2026
Certainty
“A sentence that admits no doubt is not the truth. It is a symptom.”
The illness did not speak to me in the voice of madness. It spoke in the voice of certainty. It was calm, logical, and laid the facts out in one…
Read →Pablito · 10 June 2026
The shore
“For a long time I did not believe it was the shore, because I had imagined rescue as something sudden. The rescue was dull. It was slow.”
There is no single moment in which you come ashore. There is water that reaches your mouth less and less often. There is ground that touches your…
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