Toast and Nutella: New York

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This mystery only leads to doubt

Today I get the keys to my new apartment! It is so odd that this now empty apartment will contain some of my future and final memories of college.

Enough sentiment. This lovely apartment belongs to a textile designer who lives in Brooklyn. Look at that bookcase.

Post title from Say it To Me Now by Glen Hansard from the movie Once.

Words to live by

"The really important kind of freedom involves
attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort,
and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them,
over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."

David Foster Wallace ~ This is Water

Slowly dear ask would you dance with me

This video. Wow. Just wow.

Roshambo from FreePeople on Vimeo.

Post title from Part One by Band of Horses.

Can I get a minute of not being nervous

I love this. One lady put up a wall where folks can write down what they want to accomplish before they die. It started in New Orleans and has been continuing in other cities and countries. I need to find the one in Chicago!

"It was an experiment and I didn’t know what to expect. By the next day, the wall was bursting with handwritten responses and it kept growing: Before I die I want to… sing for millions, hold her one more time, eat a salad with an alien, see my daughter graduate, abandon all insecurities, plant a tree, straddle the International Date Line, get clean, live off the grid, build a school, be someone’s cavalry, be completely myself… People’s responses made me laugh out loud and they made me tear up. They consoled me during my toughest times. I understood my neighbors in new and enlightening ways, and the wall reminded me that I’m not alone as I try to make sense of my life."

Berlin

Chicago

Johannesburg

Brooklyn

Post title from Slow Show by The National.

Rivers 'til I reach you

Thoughts on life:

1. HAPPY 2013! Last year was amazing, so we'll see if this one can beat it.

"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."

— Neil Gaiman

2. After nine countries spanning eight languages later, I will be arriving back in the US tomorrow. Yay? Yay! I have been in Europe for five months, and my dad has been here for two weeks. He has more bags than I do. I don't want to judge or anything.

4. Here is a little video about the United States from a French perspective. So true. Ok I understand it is in French, but at least we can all agree that he is attractive and the French language sounds beautiful. Oof. I'm gonna miss them attractive French boys.

Post title from The Head and the Heart, Rivers and Roads.

You can have the life you want.

Yes I fail at posting recently. I spent a week in NYC with my parents and a few friends, and it is official: I must live in NYC at some point in my life. The energy, the people, the lifestyle is so much different (better?) in comparison to Chicago. One highlight was running into Joanna Goddard from A Cup of Jo, one of my favorite bloggers. Her life is amazing. I started following her four years ago, so it was exciting and intimidating when I ran into her and her little son in Greenwich Village. I'm pretty sure nothing I said made sense when I approached her, but she was so kind and easy to talk to!

I love these words of advice she shared on Refinery 29:

"When I was in my early 20s, I felt unmoored. After college, I moved to New York City by myself. My apartment had mice, I was very single, and I was so broke that I would skip getting tomatoes on my bagel because they cost fifty cents extra. I was trying to have my Mary Tyler Moore moment, but wasn’t sure how. Was this it?

"Then, one day, I magically stumbled upon the best advice I’d ever heard. In a blog interview, photographer Stephanie Congdon Barnes said: 'You can have the life you want.' It was just the encouragement I needed. You can create the life you want. You can figure out what exactly that means to you, and instead of getting caught up in an imagined rat race, you can work hard, grow in your career, spend time with your family, ride your bike by the river, eat too much spaghetti, have friends over for wine and cheese, go on vacation and take funny photos… I suddenly felt like it was possible. I could carve out the life I wanted. Ten years later, I remember those beautiful words almost every day."

Washington Square Park

Paris and New York

I absolutely love this! The differences between two of my favorite cities, enjoy!! Believe me, one day I will go to Paris :)

a room with a view

Lately I've taken up reading the New York Times on my computer at work due to utter boredom (shhh!), and I discovered pictures of a beautiful 195-year-old house in New York. I'm particularly obsessed with the wall mural in the bedroom. Oh to live here!