I carried home from every place a little more of who I am.
Some places taught me patience. Some taught me humility. One coat, on one cold street, made me feel the whole city belonged to me too. This is where the rest of me lives, the parts a professional biography has no room to hold.
See where I've been
A rotating handful of what's been on my mind and in my camera roll.
A photographer's prop, a thousand feet of travertine, and absolutely no explanation needed.
Some places you brace for and they still take the wind out of you anyway.
Jemaa el-Fnaa at its most Jemaa el-Fnaa, snake included.
What I'm reading, and the ones that stay with me.
Some books get read once. Others get carried around, reread, dog-eared, and eventually photographed, because the person who wrote them earned that kind of attention.
What I'm reading right now. A close look at how pain lives in the body long after the story has been told, and a reminder that understanding people starts with gentleness.
A book about choosing love over fear, and about seeing every person and every place as part of the same human story. It sits close to everything I've learned from travelling.
A memoir I return to for the reminder that a public life and an honest one aren't mutually exclusive.
A prosecutor's case for what she believes, written the way she'd argue it in a room. I keep it near the others that make the same point in different voices: conviction and honesty can share a page.
Proof that a story can hold heartbreak and humour in the same sentence and never feel like it's cheating either one.
Every border I crossed, I crossed with love, and love is what I brought back.
Footprints of love, across the globe
Forty-plus countries and counting, organised the way memory actually works: not by date, but by place. Start with the highlight reel, then wander by country.
I never set out to collect countries. I was chasing something quieter: the moment a stranger's kitchen, prayer or joke stops feeling foreign and starts feeling like a relative of mine. Every place asked me to put down an assumption and pick up a question. Every table I was welcomed to, from Lomé to Kathmandu to a roadside in The Gambia, taught me that people are shaped by weather, scripture, hunger, love and history, and that none of it makes anyone less. What you'll find below isn't a list of achievements. It's closer to a diary that happens to have very good light.
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Not a bio. Just the truth of it.
I used to think I had to choose. The woman who reads long into the night, or the one who reads bedtime stories. The one with a passport full of faraway stamps, or the one who knows exactly which street in Kingston needs her home by six.
I stopped choosing a while ago. This site is what happens when you stop.
Travel is how I learned to listen. I have stood in a Marrakech square at dusk, on a Himalayan trail where breath was the only conversation, and at a Gambian roadside where a stranger gave me fruit and a blessing. Each place showed me another way of being a person: another way to pray, to grieve, to welcome, to hold on, to let go. I came home slower to judge and quicker to ask. Openness isn't something I decided to have. It is what the road wore into me.
My work has always been about helping people hear each other, and the world has been my longest teacher in that. The rooms I carry with me are the small ones: a market stall, a temple step, a long table with people who share no language and understand each other anyway.
A person is allowed to be several true things at once. I am a mother, a traveller, a reader, a listener, and a student of how much of us is shaped by where we were born. The world made all of it better.
Kadine
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