The worries have slipped out of my mind, now filling my home like thousands of weeds that either need to be tended to or will grow so thick my life won’t have room for me anymore.
Artist/Photographer
Kaitlin Romig
CG artist/Boyfriend
Ian Hubert
@mrdodobird
Model
Amy Mayes
@amy.mayes
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#apricotmagazine
Highly recommend playing winter tourist in your home state. Especially when it’s filled with some of the best people you’ve been blessed to know and your favorite person is in tow. 🤍
So happy to have spent the end to this year holding a dear friends new born, chasing and cuddling many cats and kittens, seating across from good friends and loved ones eating delicious food, tromping through thicket with my partner and re-witnessing the spaces that have shaped me with fresh eyes!
While hope is increasingly hard to harness,
existing in the present with gratitude has been a limitless balm
As of October 1st I have lived in this city for a year.
I remember the feeling of leaving Seattle- the sensation of dogs snapping at my ankles and terror that my foot would catch a root or vine, trip me, stall me and keep me tethered to what wasn’t working any longer.
I also remember the few months following my arrival and the vast sea of loneliness and uncertainty that greeted me. I remember panic attacks on the freeway, trying to hold back tears at the grocery store and losing all sense of who I was when removed from a life I’d taken over a decade to build.
What people fail to mention in migration arcs is that confidence stems from repetition, it comes from knowledge formed through trial and error. That when every location, person, experience is new confidence dissipates.
A year in and I know which grocery store sells the best baguettes. I know which grassy hillside I like to post up on with a book. I know my favored routes to my favored cafes. I know the names of the flowering trees and vines that line the traffic jammed freeways. I know most prop houses, plenty studios. I know many people in a small close knit creative industry that I could have only dreamed of in previous iterations of life.
This will be the first time in my adult life where I’ve gone more than a year without having to work in the service industry- hell, provably the first time I’ve gone more than a month. This is also the first time in my working life where I have genuine hopes for the future. An entire year of freelance and I’m only getting busier and busier and it feels so good.
Mattie and I have a sweet little south Pasadena home, flanked by neighboring friends on either side. Sometimes laying in bed, with kitten to one side, Mattie to the other and Yentl at my feet I feel as if our mattress is a raft holding my precious little life afloat as the world churns around us and god does it mean absolutely everything to me.
East coast roadtrip with my east coast boy
Pt.1
Locations:
Sharon Massachusetts
Stoughton Massachusetts
Walpol Massachusetts
Newburyport Massachusetts
Temple New Hampshire
Rockport Massachusetts
Salem Massachusetts
Boston Massachusetts
Burlington Vermont
Montreal Canada
Plymouth Massachusetts