Category: Desk Drawer

This category is symbolic of a desk drawer. Someone’s desk drawer may contain personal or private things, like a journal. So, this category represents the writings, short stories, creative works, or other content that are personal to me.

Remember many years have passed since some posts were published. I am human and my views are subject to change and evolve as I continue to live my life. In other words, the way I express something in the past might not be the way I choose to express myself today. Don’t assume. Ask me!

Saying no.

2021 August 19 / Justin W. Flory / 0 Comments

For a long time, it was a “yes”. For a few years, I was pulled in by the fiscal lure. There are no manuals for someone who grows up having less to suddenly land at a juncture of having more. So I had to be my own guide.

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Cyclical nostalgia.

2021 August 12 / Justin W. Flory / 0 Comments

A part of me holds nostalgia for this aspect of the Internet I grew up with. Back when blogs played a bigger role in shaping and developing the Internet culture, and being the exemplar way of how we sought to express ourselves online (or, perhaps for those of us who find both solace and agony inside written language).

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Rosie

2021 April 8 / Justin W. Flory / 0 Comments

I put on our playlist,
Pure poetry to untrained ears.

My heart taken by the hand,
But led back to the Atlantic blue,
Wondering if I am singing your tune?

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Breakfast in Bosnia.

2021 March 14 / Justin W. Flory / 0 Comments

Four years ago, on March 13th in 2017, I woke up for breakfast in the city of Sarajevo in Bosnia & Herzegovina. As I ate breakfast on the morning of March 14th of 2021 in the seemingly eternal era of COVID-19, it struck me.

Bosnian coffee.
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Unsaid.

2021 January 17 / Justin W. Flory / 1 Comment

When I launched my blog, I always envisioned writing cute snapshots of insight into my life. As much as I would publish them for the Internet, I was also publishing for myself. Or so, it started off this way.

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The Alps seen from Bolzano, Italy. Taken in March 2018 at the Fedora Mindshare FAD. © Justin W. Flory, CC BY-NC-SA

A reflection: Gabriele Trombini (mailga)

2020 September 18 / Justin W. Flory / 0 Comments

Trigger warning: Grief, death.

Two years passed since we last met in Bolzano. I remember you traveled in for a day to join the 2018 Fedora Mindshare FAD. You came many hours from your home to see us, and share your experiences and wisdom from both the global and Italian Fedora Community. And this week, I learned that you, Gabriele Trombini, passed away from a heart attack. To act like the news didn’t affect me denies my humanity. In 2020, a year that feels like it has taken away so much already, we are greeted by another heart-breaking loss.

But to succumb to the despair and sadness of this year would deny the warm, happy memories we shared together. We shared goals of supporting the Fedora Project but also learning from each other.

So, this post is a brief reflection of your life as I knew you. A final celebration of the great memories we shared together, that I only wish I could have shared with you while you were still here.

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