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!

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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