Be Longing Belonging

For as long as she can remember, Monica had scribbled. She scribbled a lot in the darkness, on walls of her bedroom, out of sheer desperation of not forgetting, to every scrap of paper found on every shelf or bag she owned. This story are fragments of all her scribbles accumulated. It’s captured in the heat of the economic recession in England when she and her family, move to Holland in the hope of a better life. With the intention of only staying in Holland for 6 months, they ended up creating a life longer than they had ever imagined. The years were demanding and testing, turning out to be not as happily married as was expected by the couple. Her and her husband struggled in maintaining an equilibrium with each other. Being a mother to a young set of children and also a partner in helping to work and provide for the family her life made her life challenging beyond words. Even though her body was wounded, her camouflaged smiles always found a way to fix all her problems or at leas