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{williamsburg love.}

"no one is you and that is your power." 

- dave grohl

play-doh & poster presentations

{upper east side wandering // jeff koons at the whitney}

{cousin korea-town dinner dates}

{practicum presentin'! and five glasses of wine}

{bill hader + the worst moderator ever at the new yorker festival}

{college reunions in the big apple}

{birthday brunch celebrations + delicious shakshuka}

{roomie mochi making}

{from uptown to downtown to the east and the west}

lately, i've been uptown for classes and downtown for dinner and on another island for weekends and everywhere in between.  although life has been all over the place, i'm still taking time to cross the best off my bucket list and slow down to enjoy the little things. 

also, enjoying [the words of the wise found elsewhere]; 

"you are no one's project.  regard anyone who sees you as such with deep skepticism.

the bad and good rush in together.

.....there will be whole stretches of time when everything feels unnerving and terrifying and deeply unsettling.  but you must keep going. you must show up. you must pace yourself. and when given the chance to say hello, you must take it. 

....surround yourself with people smarter than you.

you gotta keep going.  moving in a specific direction.... because the landscape will shift when you least expect it.  but as there's not predicting when, or how, it's often a long and lonely trek.  but there are good blind curves. good things do happen, and the terrain does transform.  and it means more for the wait."

friday night.

 it didn't really make sense, and it was the latest i've stayed up in a month, but it was one of the best nights. 

"love what you love, but never hate what hates you.  for hate is the burden to exhaust the stars in you."

- r.m. drake 

33/52

{october.}

from where i stand, every week, every month, this year. 

"you attract the right things when you have a sense of who you are."

-amy poehler

weekend.

{black bean brownies // coffee shop mornings // a lovely dinner at buvette // workout classes galore}

{a less than 24-hour trip back to northampton with the babe with surprise comedy tickets}

{williamsburg wandering}

{global citizen festival: no doubt, jay-z, sting, jessica alba.... prime minister of norway?}

is that a bit of fall i feel? i'm into it.

"i tell my students, when you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else.  if you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.  this is not just a grab-bag candy game."

- toni morrison