Cappuccino scuro

Waking up at 4 am as Anna had to catch an early train to Örebro, I spent the morning being super productive in front of my computer, responding to most if not all of the reviewer concerns. By 10 am, I felt nearly ready to resubmit the article. 

Based on past experience, I decided to hold off for a bit and get some emotional distance from the text. Instead, I went down to Nordic Wellness to finish this month’s rowing, followed by coffee at our lovely neighbourhood café, Bar à Kaffe. Their cappuccino scuro proved to be the right choice for a flat white aficionado like me – someone who never quite forgets Australia.

In the real world, the worst Greenland madness seems to have passed, only to be replaced by heinous shootings by ICE agents. As America continues its descent into authoritarianism and away from the international institutions that have underpinned its post-war prosperity, writing about cosmopolitan hope calls for a certain distance from the present. Yet there is something almost absurd in the thought that Trump would represent the furthest our aspirations will reach – that we would come this far only to succumb to our basest instincts.