This is a space shaped by attention to language.
To how words are chosen, placed, and allowed to mean.
Here, language is not rushed.
It is examined, enjoyed, and occasionally left open.
The website is built as a shared practice - part linguistic, part poetic - by two people who care about how words work and how they feel.
Lydia
Lydia is a language enthusiast and a Mid-Career Master in Public Administration student at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Her professional background is in higher education and arts administration.
Before coming to Harvard, she worked in the Office of the Arts at MIT, where language often had to move between institutions, disciplines, and people who did not always speak the same way.
She revels in linguistic absurdity and seeks joy in the mundane.
Lydia views language as a beautiful patchwork of deliberate construction and happy accidents.
Elsa
Elsa is a poetry enthusiast and a Master in Public Policy student at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Her professional background is in statistics.
Before coming to Harvard, she worked at a statistical agency, where numbers were expected to be exact, even when what they described was not.
She is drawn to rhythm, imagery, and the emotional weight carried by a line.
She listens for how language moves, where it pauses, and what it leaves behind.
Elsa approaches language as something to be felt - and returned to.
Lydia and Elsa are co-authors of this website. They share a love for words, an eye for detail, and a belief that language shapes how we pay attention.
One tends to ask how language works. The other wonders what it does to us.
They sometimes agree. They often edit each other.