xo, mcl.

[mcruzlee]

There is no greater devourer of the human spirit than the ticks and tallies of corporate assessment. You are not a dispensary. You are a soul, soulfully engaged with its own creative and playful spirit.

Chani Nicholas

[mcruzlee]

I intend on recounting each priceless memory at Define American, but I’ll start here: staff photos: 2014 - 2016.

Forever grateful for each of these people. They’ve added so much to my story and helped shape what’s next. I can fondly look back and say: 

“We built this.” 

JAV, thank you for taking a chance on me. Maraming maraming salamat. I wouldn’t trade this experience for the world. 2013 seems so long ago.

note: Chris Weitz and Demián Bichir are not staff, but a welcome addition to staff photo since they were panelists at #DAFF.

[mcruzlee]

Best of pets and best of puppies. #Hamilton #STILLONREPLAY

[mcruzlee]

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Cesare Pavese

[mcruzlee]

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Toni Morrison

[mcruzlee]

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Steve Jobs

[mcruzlee]

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt - Excerpt from the speech "Citizenship In A Republic" delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France, 23 April, 1910

[mcruzlee]

Being a part of something special does not make you special.  Something is special because you are part of it.

Glee, Dreams Come True

[mcruzlee]

It is not how long we are alive but how much we are alive in the time that is given to us that matters more.

S. P.