DUMBONIE 🕺
Twas a fun shoot of just walking around the city and seeing what we find! Major props to Isa for the nice fit! Enjoy!
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A few days ago I ended a 14 month solo backpacking trip (which was actually supposed to end months ago). I’m still processing it all, but here are a few thoughts:
I packed my things and left on September 15th, 2019. Life on my back, ready to roll!
I started with the Big Apple, where I got to audition for a few performing arts schools and... I got in! And let me tell you, New York City ain’t so big and scary after all. It’s alive and beautiful. And yes, a bit excessive at times. But there’s so much more to it.
From there I headed to Europe. Trying to spend at least a month in each country, since I’m not a fan of the "speed traveling" style. I like to take time to get to know a place.
I hiked (more like climbed) mountains and reunited with special people in Spain, fell deeply in love with Italy, combined work with partying in Portugal, visited family in Ireland and drank the last Guinesses before everything got shut down and things started to change. A lot.
And that’s when I headed to Berlin. Thinking I’d stay for a week or two, but actually staying for almost 8 months. Little did I know I wouldn’t just find another place to call home, but also a huge missing piece of my own puzzle.
From there I still got to go on four very spontaneous trips. Poland, Greece, the Netherlands and France. Poland, even with all its seriousness, had me laughing and running in the rain with strangers. Greece reminded me of how great and simple the island life is and how I love being barefoot. I walked around the canals in the Netherlands for hours, I would walk many more. In France, I turned 20 in the city of love, went up and down and even on a last minute road trip.
I spent my last European days back in Berlin, with some of the most beautiful souls I’ve ever encountered, getting ready to say goodbye, but already knowing I will be back.
It’s hard to summarize such a big year and 2 months. But here’s the point: I’m lucky, I know. But that’s not all. In the midst of all the chaos, canceled trips and innumerable questions, I found a way to make this year the most memorable one I’ve had so far. Or perhaps it simply happened. (continues in the comment below 👇🏽)
How could I say goodbye to 2025 without an appreciation post for our beloved Sisyphos? Wow. This place has brought me so much. It brought me more color and glitter and creativity. It brought me a space to move my body more freely than I’ve ever moved it before. It brought me back parts of myself I wasn’t sure I’d see again. It brought me a playground (which I came to realize it’s very important to have as an adult). It brought me to the moment over and over again. But most importantly, it brought me this beautiful community. This little shiny, quirky, whimsical family. And with it so much joy, so much love, so much freedom, so many trinkets and side quests and so many memories I’ll truly cherish for the rest of my life.
What a privilege to have a space where we can be however we want and be sure to meet other beautiful souls who are open to connect, explore and be present. A place to share and play together. A place to appreciate music, art and just being human. Another little home.
I could go on and on and on… but let’s leave the rest of my yapping for the next time we’re gathered there again, cause let’s face it… we love yapping.
Looking forward to our next adventures, to new connections and to everything we have yet to experience together.
With love,
Your Merfairy 🧜♀️🧚✨
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*aaand missing a few tags cause I can only add up to 20, but you know yourselves 😌
