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At The Pumpkin Patch!

At The Pumpkin Patch!

Whats more festive than celebrating Fall and the holidays then going to a pumpkin patch? This year was really the first year Sylah is more aware of what pumpkin picking really means. Seeing her get excited for them really melts my heart. Her eyes light up when we go for walks and she’s able to point out all the decorations and pumpkins we see on everyones homes. I realized doing things like this…

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A Journal Entry

Sylah and I are both wearing beautiful dresses by Auguste The Label and Little Auguste

People ask me if I’m tired. I’ve been bone weary. I’ve also been energized and inspired. I have laughed and fallen in love. The cycles turn and turn, and never leave me at one place— I only drain to be filled back up, I only fall down to remember how well I stand. I think my life is extraordinary not because…

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Life lately, according to my camera roll

Life lately, according to my camera roll

A photo dump of my camera roll documenting some happy moments during this break I took off social media. I wanted some time to rededicate this space as somewhere for me to practice without the influence of social media—to practice writing, evolving, art making, question asking, thought shaping, word piling, becoming and most especially; unbecoming.

This space has become sometimes a journal,…

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Reminder to myself:

Be equally good at finding your flaws and finding your beauty. Show yourself how they can be the exact same thing.

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Some days. Mostly Monday’s or mornings

it’d be cool if i could…………………function

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Forgot this place even exists

I guess I’m back

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20 questions. Go

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I’m just tired

Personal

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always sunny season 13

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“Melancholia” photographed by Katja Mayer for Numéro December 2017

Fashion Editor: Samuel Francois

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my gf is german and she just forgot the word for slug so she asked me “how do you call snails without homes” 

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People are so odd.

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Daddy

Jason Momoa in Johnson Family Vacation (2004)