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No. 007

I’m writing this from a train.
A return ticket less than twenty-four hours apart.

I think I may have ended up with the worst seat on the train. The one where you sit directly opposite a stranger and feel the tremendous discomfort of not being able to move your feet a single millimetre further without bothering the person in front of you. Five minutes in, we seem to have reached an unspoken agreement on the territorial boundaries between us.

The journey is getting better.

I’m on my way to visit two friends I’ve neglected for longer than I’d like to admit. Friends who became family, with whom I share hundreds of memories. The kind of people who add to your life, and who are there.

You can be surrounded by people, but who holds you while you cry in the most devastating way? Who cleans the wound on your back—the one strategically placed in that damn, impossibly unreachable spot? Who insists and shows up—unannounced and uninvited—to get you out of the house simply because they know you need it, and that you’re incapable of asking for help?

Human connections. Real bonds. The ones that count. The ones who have an open door and a key. Who know your universe and take care of it.

There is an enormous difference between crossing paths with someone, noticing someone, and knowing someone.

Every day, we cross paths with thousands of people. We notice some of them, but very few ever become truly known to us. And even fewer are there.

Those invisible lives that exist all around us.

The people we pass while walking. The woman sitting opposite us on the train. The man who is always at the same table in the café. Someone crying while talking on the phone. Two strangers laughing. A couple sitting on “your” bench.

We see only a few seconds of their lives.

And yet, behind each of them is an entire universe we will never have access to.

Perhaps love is precisely that: among the hundreds of people who pass through our lives, one of them stops being part of the background. Staying long enough for two invisible lives to become visible to one another. Intimacy begins when we stop imagining their world and begin to know it.

And that is where the miracle lies. Among this sea of invisible lives, two find one another, becoming close enough to share (in) time.

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XU ZHEN — IN JUST A BLINK OF AN EYE

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NENDO
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Nendo has long been one of my favourite design studios—and one of my greatest creative references. There's a quiet simplicity running through all of Oki Sato's work that feels deeply rooted in a distinctly Japanese sensibility: thoughtful, restrained and remarkably precise. Passing Rain is a perfect example of why. Rather than designing an object, he captures a fleeting moment in nature—the brief life of a passing rain shower—and turns it into something we can pause and contemplate. It gently reminds us that beauty often exists in the moments we tend to overlook, and that paying attention is, perhaps, one of the most meaningful forms of appreciation.

VICTORIA ALVAREZ PERISCO

Victoria Persico is one of those creators whose genuine passion for the ocean is reflected in everything she shares. Founder of @mindtheseas, she has a remarkable ability to make marine science both fascinating and accessible. This reel on Point Nemo is a perfect example.