A Few Beautiful Things
an ode to summer past, slow days, long nights and my soul coming alive once again
I highly recommend disappearing for a summer. Clearing out old energy. No phones. No mindless scroll. Tidying up old aquantiances like blurry photos in a cramped camera roll.
That was exactly what I did last summer.
I was fresh off of social media, in the throes of brain-rot detox and I decided to live as ‘slow’ and ‘in my senses’ as possible. I didn’t update anyone on where I was or what I was doing. Instead I:
napped, wrote, took myself out to dinners and brunches with a good book or a friend, took a long weekend girls trip through Montana and caught some fish, drove through Yellowstone and saw the sunrise in Glacier, spent a weekend in a cabin with my family on a tiny island off of the Puget Sound riding bikes and playing Tripoli, caught a few concerts, attempted almost every Sunday’s NYT crossword puzzle, got to know the barista’s at my neighborhood coffee shop — checked up on them when they all broke their legs at once, attended the farmers markets and vintage fairs, chose to walk or public transport whenever available — not great in Seattle, kept a little wine journal and amassed a collection that took up my kitchen window seal, sketched the view of the mountains from the beach at Golden Gardens and watched the sunset weekly in my seat at ‘Accidental Park’.
Sometimes, I remembered to take a photo or two of the things I liked. Enjoy!
In preparation for this summer, I recently picked up a new film camera — the Instax Mini Evo — to begin messing about with. It’s been the perfect hybrid to capture quick moments and moods.
Cannot wait to share more, thanks for indulging me. Till next! xx
