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.