#dua lipa summer

[kaitaiga]

The weather has been so nice lately, it’s already starting to feel like summer. My seasonal depression has been cured 😂

Anyways here’s a list of songs on repeat over the past week ✨

[superba-e]

close enough welcome back jean grey and scott summers

[soulrepertoire]

Timeless.

[mdnet]

Dua of the day 🌞✨

[carolinatsversion]

[sugardua]

𝐃𝐮𝐚 𝐋𝐢𝐩𝐚 ༄

[goldenstattoo]

— radical optimism

[joshleyson]

a deeper well.

On this exact day 5 years ago, I was in this same location ensconced by the towering mountains with an overlooking view of a calm, seemingly waveless ocean in the pre-summer blistering heat in San Antonio, Zambales. This time I get to come back with my OG friends slash Zamboanga childhood homies, my friend Karen Blaise who's now based in Clark, Pampanga, and my CPA Lawyer friend Abegail from Dumaguete. After countless discussions of reunions and "travel goals" with some of the important people that we know, and 99% of those plans that never came to fruition, we decided that we would make this outdoor camp happen, and thank God we finally made it happen.

I felt like that 2D1N camping trip was surprisingly one of the longest weekends I had this year. Having to disconnect from our phones for a while because the camping site had no service was the perfect setting for us to reminisce about our adolescent and high school classic moments and teenage angst and how those unforgettable stories from our past (and sometimes politically incorrect moments lol) shaped the people we are today professionally and personally. We had a great time recounting all the crazy stories we had more than a decade ago, planned future travels, played frisbee in the middle of the night, and went hiking after sunrise breathing the cold pre-summer wind overlooking the almost CGI-looking mountains in Zambales. My belief of having this type of "disconnecting" was further reinforced from this trip that, as much as I want so much social interaction with a lot of people, I also like to be alone with the few people I truly trust, and that being alone doesn't have to be lonely and solitude is actually a good thing.

☾

Being on the road while listening to Kacey Musgrave's Deeper Well album (shoutout to Track 6 Sway as my favorite track off the record) revealed so many truths about my current situation and the things I'm dealing with in my personal life, both good and bad, and how I strive to find peace in accepting the pain and the lessons it has taught me, and that I've already arrived in my final destination on some certain aspects of my relationships especially with the people that I love, and that I need to move on. 

My Saturn has returned. 

J

February, 2024 | Nagsasa, San Antonio, Zambales

(Photos were shot using Fujifilm Simpleace 35 mm camera + FUJIFILM X-T100)

Stream Kacey Musgrave’s Deeper Well on Spotify and Apple Music.

Instagram/TikTok/Twitter: joshleyson

[sea-talk]

Doja Cat

photographed by Greg Lotus for L'Officiel USA

[fawnsite]

[1111iza]

source

[antigonenikk]

i just know callum turner has been SEETHING on the phone with dua lipa begging crying shitting himself since that sabrina carpenter/barry keoghan music video dropped lmao

[canmargesimpson]

Someone said they’re Jean grey and Scott summer coded and now I’m crying

[soulrepertoire]

“I know you're tired of lovin', of lovin'”…

[youjustdontunderstandmymusic]

dua and callum at glastonbury music festival

they are so cute bye

[hopeinthebox]

tagged by the exceptional @cordiallyfuturedwight and @cosmicdreamgrl thanks ever so much my loves <33

now tagging some heroes @aprylynn @thvinyl @visionsofgideontheninth @hoseeok @btscontentenjoyer @jihopesjoint @monismochi @raplinenthusiasts <333 and everyone else