Simone de Beauvoir once wrote: “What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”
Why wasn’t I writing? Maybe I was afraid of putting it all down on paper, of acknowledging the bad parts, the ones that wouldn’t be pretty to look back on someday, the ones that collided with the stories I was telling myself.
Because as bad as things were looking, I had not yet given up on the possibility of a happy ending. You can fool yourself in your own head, but there is no lying to a piece of paper.
Endings… We all become stories in the end.
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New love.
Two of my childhood friends welcomed a beautiful baby girl back in November, and I was lucky enough to be there to document it.
So many years, so far away. Now I’m back and every moment around family and old friends feels like a blessing—something I don’t take for granted the way I once might have.
It has been a huge reminder to the importance of being present, in not just my life but other’s as well—to witness growth, celebrate joys, and support one another through difficult moments. To welcome some and to lose others… all part of this beautiful life.
I have witnessed so much, and missed so much too.
I’m here now—searching balance between my love for solitude and my love for humans.
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Time is a stranger. Time is a friend.
I still find myself daydreaming at times, and I hope this will never change. But it doesn’t happen as often or easily as it once did.
What matters most is that I feel calm, as calm as one can hope to be in this strange, drifting life of mine.
Free, unattached, and lonely too.
It’s never boring.
A life built to push and test myself, to keep stepping outside of my own comfort.
I used to do it by moving from place to place. Lately it is my mind and my heart doing the wandering.
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Pictures from July to December 2022. Full post with pictures and writing link in bio ❤️
Sabi — A quiet nod to beauty shaped by time: imperfect, aged, and rich with untold stories.
Kartell — Inspired by the iconic Italian design house; a curated framework built on intention, structure, and style.
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I like to reconcile past and present. I love to look at the pictures from many yesterdays and think, transporting myself back — trying to remember what I was feeling when those shots were taken. I look at the whole landscape with a wiser lens, connecting dots.
It gives me hope to see the change, the evolution.
There is a newfound calmness I can grasp even during challenges, like the ones I face today.
In this very difficult and lonely, albeit exciting time, I must remember what I learned from my own experience: that this is just a moment in time, and it is up to me to embrace it and let it change me. This moment is full of dots I have yet to connect in future days ahead.
That’s the magic I find in living.
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Pictures from January to June 2022. Words, today.
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