New York, NY
Joined May 2008
A short and sweet non-traditional gift guide for any time of the year: jesst.substack.com/p/evergre… featuring vintage photo albums, my favorite roll-on unisex perfume and portraits of possessed dogs.
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Cried in the park reading this—about losing your mother, being a daughter, what it means to die a good death, assisted suicide, bodily autonomy and grief.
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“A sensitive person cannot in all fairness load that enormous burden of meaning, responsibility, duty, heaven and hell, on the shoulders of one frail and fallible human being—so deserving of love, indulgence, understanding and forgiveness—who was our mother.” 😭😭
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and as brat summer came to a close, i couldn't help but wonder... was it time for lobotomy fall?
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do you think you are capable of love despite being an asian american from california
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Feelings are visitors
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the body keeps the score ….
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I think everyone should rewatch Insecure once every few years to see what current phase of their life relates to the show. as I get older, I completely understand why Lawrence was unemployed for 2 years – at Talty, TX
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Recent on film from beautiful Biarritz #120film #mamiya645
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Portraits of people in Central Park
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To stay on the LONG path of progress you've got to hold (and harmonize) competing ideas at once. This is so important. Stress AND rest Seriousness AND fun Self discipline AND self-compassion Solitude AND community Success AND failure Caring deeply about goals AND non-attachment
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Some recent photos on film, somewhere upstate
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daniel kwan’s oscar speech about his mother not being able to pursue a creative career is so real. i hope that future generations can also follow their passion in the arts freely, with no fear that it’s something only reserved for the privileged few. – at Brooklyn, NY
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This is fucking insane lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n10/…
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You avoid taking up space. You minimize and normalize every time someone catcalls you on the street and calls you Sailor Moon, or when you notice men only dating Asian women. We don’t talk about these experiences because we normalize them. They’re not that bad, we tell ourselves.
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And then when six Asian women are blamed for being temptations, when a white shooter’s perception of why he KILLED people is believed over the visceral pain and trauma that Asian women feel.
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you are not a machine. you are more like a garden. you need different things on different days. a little sun today, a little less water tomorrow. you have fallow and fruitful seasons. it is not a design flaw. it is wiser than perpetual sameness. what does your garden need today?
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something about watching the people u love heal is also a healing feeling
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The Simpsons doesn't predict anything we just haven't fixed any of America's problems since 1989.
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