Personal Gallery
A Travel Site for Flaneurs and Art Lovers
Moments
Paris People Watching
Canal Saint-Martin, Paris
Random Encounters
Paris, France
Cafe Pli, Paris
Explorations
Paris
The Hague
Amsterdam
Berlin
Francesca Dioso-Lopez
English Major
I write to figure out what I mean. I do not write to be read nor to be scrutinized. I write only when I cannot help it. I do not need you to know me. I need only to know myself.
What I Write
My Explorations
Leaving is the greatest feeling, even when I have no idea where I am going. Especially then. I love encountering things by accident, going in circles and wandering until my feet hurt. Walking is the best way to experience the world. Or by train, when you can stand witness to the world whilst it passes you by.
Moments in my Memory
I fall in love constantly, but only for moments. For brief encounters, surprising profundities, a bird alighting on a branch. Moments are perfect, a respite from reality and the flaws of being human. No one and nothing is real when they exist temporally.
My Encounters with Beauty
People are beautiful and sometimes I can hardly believe they’re real. Sometimes you can share a profound conversation with the most surprising person and I find myself falling in love bit by bit. The world is beautiful, too. I fall in love with it seamlessly and genuinely believe I’ll never need anyone to share it with as long as I have the privilege to bear witness to it.