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in honor of @bigron birthday, here’s some of the pictures we took on our trip to death valley ☀️
this was a transcendent, life changing experience for me. being born and raised in nyc, i never developed much of an interest in camping and outdoorsy activities. but veronica was born and raised in manhattan too, and they have this relationship with nature that i always admired so much. i thought, if there’s anyone i’d go camping with, it’s them. our adventure taught me so much about what it means to take care of yourself, to love your friends, to experience the spirituality of the wilderness. i’m forever grateful to them.
there’s an incredible story that came out of this trip that involves me and ron journeying deep into the park, hours away from death valley’s main roads, and off-roading our (rental) jeep basically up the side of a mountain so that we could see the full moon rise over the eureka dunes… but it’s too long for insta so ask us irl
happy birthday, love you so much ron. you rock my world
eclipse pics in chronological order so u can see the light change….
guys the eclipse broke my brain. i touched the void. about 10 minutes before totality, as we were getting into the canoes, we all secretly began to individually feel a deep primordial fear that seeing this would cause some sort of mass hysteria or serious upheaval, or maybe the sun would never come back and the world would end? the sun waned and the moon seemed to grow into a disc that covered the light like a manhole. the animals and birds were silent. the light was grey. the shadows darkened and then disappeared. as totality turned the sky into a panoramic sunset, i was overwhelmed with the awareness of space and its celestial bodies as tangible, dimensional things. i understood them as bodies for the first time. i understood my body for the first time??? i felt myself floating in the lake and yet pinned to the earth as the alignment of the sun and moon passed through the coincidence of my body, straight to the heart of our planet. life is an accident, i am falling upwards. i saw the curvature of the moon and sobbed so hard i became part of the lake forever. i’m sorry if this is corny. secretly i’ve been a poet this whole time and secrets make me tired now. i don’t want to be cool. i love you
