Nesrina Cali’s written piece Blue of the Beloved is an ode to her home country of Somalia. From a writer born and raised in the United Kingdom, bound by blood to a place only visited a few times, she was confronted with a choice: which facet of it does she try to capture when so much of it remains vast and untouchable to her? She chose to write the blue of it. This piece is not about a recounting of travel, nor is it simply about its landscape. It is about belonging found in colour, and how blue, in all its forms, becomes a tether to home.