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labor day weekend | nyc | 9.3.22

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| May 2022 | Part 4 - the midtown girl

- Just some random elevator shots on my way to work during those last days LOL. I swear my building knew what they was doing putting a mirror in the elevator.

- The last photo was my last day. I made sure they remembered me super cute LOL.

- I look happy here because I love mornings, but I did not love going to that place. Corporate America IS NOT for everyone.

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September 21 ‘22 | meditation session

I was feeling so Zen and cute this day. The hostess said I carried a lot of “what now” energy and I needed to continue searching for what truly makes me happy and take a hold of it, even a small piece for a little while. She said it’s hard for people like me to find their sense of self and they often wonder what it is that they are meant to do. I tend to drift off in so many directions but instead I need to look within, sit in the quiet, and do Zen meditation instead of searching for some outside acceptance. It a necessary practice.

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august ‘22

the rekindle -- after & before

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| February 2022 |

-- I was feeling myself because I blew out my hair....which is rare...(that rhymes)

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| May 2022 | Part Two

A few moments after an exciting and fulfilling dance workout. It was just me and my trainer and I learned a plethora of new dance moves of the Afro Cuban Samba variety. Being Afro-Cuban myself I felt that it was an omen and it would be blaspheme of me not to attend. I also needed something to uplift me after coming off such a chaotic and heartbreaking month. Looking back I remember that powerful release of energy making me feel really good.....can you tell? 

                                                                                                                                                                           -- she

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| April 2022 | Part 12 - i call this one ‘self betrayal’

This was an interesting month.

I tried a lot of different things with my appearance, with my behavior, with my communication processes. I was sad a lot this month, angsty, moody. I couldn’t sit still, I was eager a lot of the times, then I was suddenly dropped on my ass. I was completely blindsided. It’s crazy how you wish for something and then when you get it you don’t want it anymore. This. 

They call it spring cleaning for a reason. I tend to do a lot of reflecting during these little pockets of the year. It’s usefully Spring and Autumn. I move with the seasons as you do, ya know. I don’t always recognize myself sometimes. I’m still trying to figure out what I look like, what I am, and what I’m really and truly about. I don’t always see her in these photographs. I tend to see someone who is trying to be me..............who the fuck is this imposter?!

                                                                                                                - she

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| April 2022 | Part 7

- The amount of effort I put in to protect my hair from New York City, people will never understand know.

- I visited the roof of the new library. She walks alone.