Sometimes there is no better reason to write other than, well, you feel like you absolutely have to. I have been paying attention to this feeling more and more– this sometimes almost frustrating compulsion to want to share, to think, to connect, to craft the abstract meanderings of a day dream, a musing, the seedlings … Continue reading
Dear Me,
Dear Cameron, For so long you’ve been wondering if you should take your previous blog post down. You were at such a low when you wrote it– nothing was clear, your hopes and expectations for almost everything you hoped to be pursuing were being severely disappointed. You were alone in a city having left college … Continue reading
Scared of the Truth: or why I would rather weave myself into a comfy web of bullsh*t then face who I am and how I feel
I literally just finished Kristen Forbes’ essay “Dream Girl” when I realized I needed to write about my own experience. Forbes writes: “We carry our best selves into public and our worst selves into solitude.” So true. Having just spent three weeks in what feels like the closest I have ever come to solitary confinement, … Continue reading
Table For One, Please
“Wow!” (one may think to himself while thinking about how great it’s gonna be to move to a hip city like San Francisco) “I’m so excited to start a new adventure in a cool city!” And there’s nothing wrong with thinking that. True, San Francisco is an amazing city. There is a lot to love. … Continue reading
To Dare Greatly
In his speech “Citizenship in a Republic”, given at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, on April 23, 1910, President Theodore Roosevelt uttered the words that have since caused this speech to be referred to often as “The Man in the Arena.” He said: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who … Continue reading
Communication Today: Or, how social media can trap us in fabricated realities
So as I’m sure has become obvious by now—because of the plethora of Instagram photos popping up on my Facebook page and my Tumblr— I now have an iPhone and have thus joined the 21st century with a vengeance. I haven’t opened a Twitter account yet but I’m sure it’s only a matter of time. … Continue reading
Over-exposed, or perfectly developed?
So this afternoon I sat down in the dimness of my room, shades drawn after a nap (a rare indulgence), and prepared to extract the roll of film I had recently filled on my 35mm camera. I had just been looking at my friend’s newly launched website (she’s an art student: http://cargocollective.com/sophiehelf) and was feeling … Continue reading
Safe from the bears of life
A supreme challenge awaits me. Question: How do I wrap up the glorious threads of one adventure before continuing a new one? And how do I do that in an hour before my next flight. Whoever you are, you beautiful person taking time out of your day to read my blog, you may know me … Continue reading
Privilege, and the meaning of true education
It’s hard for me to relax. I believe we’ve been conditioned to think that if we’re not moving all the time, doing something, accomplishing a task, downloading more information, saving the world, then we’re somehow not actualizing our life-purpose. Heaven forbid we slow down for a hot minute and realize that the heavens will not … Continue reading
Is this my life?
My life has done a one-eighty in exactly a weeks time. A week ago on Saturday I woke up, decided to get on a plane with two bags, and move to place I’d only heard about, to take a job I’d never done before. That was exactly nine days ago. Since then, I have stepped … Continue reading
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