hello
There are perhaps many, many reasons as to why this past year has been very taxing on me: post-college adulthood, dealing with a predictably hellish NY random roommate situation, moving around job industries and losing opportunities to nepotism, and experiencing stagnant periods of unemployment in the name of “taking time to find my passion” to no avail. There have been many downward spiraling periods throughout my life, but this winter period has felt the most poignant out of all of them (maybe because it’s the most recent?). In sum, the concept of this F/W 2020: dim energy, like that of a neglected succulent, hidden under shade and in desperate need of watering.
And then I made my way to this realization that I can’t “““find””” my passion… or more so that life is about renewing and revisiting yourself constantly and to “find” a designated, one-stop purpose goes against the laws of the universe.
It was through this realization that I had decided that this newsletter (exciting!…months overdue, but happening!) will furnish my practice in refocusing. For my narrative, to refocus is to shine light on positive occurrences and interpret things as parts of a whole... not as a distraction from the problems but as a meditation on the significance of simply being alive, the joy of existing as a little blob, housed lovingly by this good, sweet earth.
I am a romanticist at heart and am finding my way back to myself. I plan for this newsletter to be a series of personal essays and a place where I can share what I’ve learned/loved recently. Hopefully, a motivation to enrich my mind, and if I’m successful, a way to enrich yours as well. As much as I believe hard confronting media is necessary for a greater human awareness, I also try to frequently impart myself with things that purposefully incite love and that seem fragile in their goodness, in such a way that I want to handle their dispersal further along the www with tenderness. As I believe in some way it was omnipresently handed along to me with tenderness.
Here are a few things for this happy Tuesday:
Forest Garden with 500 Edible Plants Requires Only a Few Hours of Work Per Month (EducateInspireChange)
Why the Costumes of Little Women Did Not Deserve an Oscar (Youtube)
A Vibrant Tour of America’s Neon Signs (Smithsonian Mag)
How South Korea is Composing Its Way to Sustainability (The New Yorker)
Bachelor Nation (The Baffler)
See u soon!
Mina