Urban Girl Notes

Today is an exhausting day, out of nowhere. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, everything is subpar. Not devastating, not bad, just not…

I took my daughter to Berlin Zoo today. It’s huge, to a point when, after going there for a year, I still find animals I haven’t yet seen…

How do you stay away from negative people if you’re one?

Ingmar Bergman’s quote on work

I don’t remember the last time I’d made a collage before today. This is what I made today after breakfast.

Clean slate every time?

A memory of a class discussion and a controversial phrase

Stoics have questions and answers

We live inside the bubbles of our own creation.

It’s important to have a luxurious way of living, not luxurious possessons.

I used to know a lot of lyrics to songs. Whole albums, really. A lot of them I learned as a teenager and in my early 20s. I still remember…

I started reading Hokusai. A Life in Drawing today. The book given me over three months ago — I waited for the sakura to bloom to open it.

I’m catching up on Black Mirror, season 4, right now — as for the past couple of days I haven’t been functioning properly: caught a mild…

Rather than the sky, looking through the camera— how much more time spent…

Among the poems that I’m copying to my notebook on a daily basis there is one by Derek Walcott:

We see others as stories. We see ourselves as decisions.

Easter weekend began today, and there are three more days off ahead. The best thing that comes to mind is that