incredible because when i was a kid both my oma and opa kissed me upon greeting as we arrived

used to be normal in europe, was not so normal already in australia, but my gramps and gramma were dutch/indonesian (respectively)

that toxic isolation, that lack of intimacy between even family, this is a symptom of what we live in now, it's so bad i can't stand it any more

i'm glad to be here in #madeira, the people here haven't lost as much as we have in english speaking world, they still have their families