Small Worlds

by Caleb Azumah Nelson

We’re young and often struggle to express just what it is we need, but I know we all value closeness.

For her, for many of us, food is not just sustenance but memory, nostalgia; a way to quell longing, a way to build new foundations.

Her life is informed by loss but because she’s lost, she loves and loves freely, openly, with all she can. I’ve seen it first-hand, in what she gives to her art, how she holds her double bass, the quiet intensity with which she plays; what she gives to her friends, the space she makes for people to be honest, to be themselves.