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1-6 Flowers for Post It Show 21 at Giant Robot in Los Angeles December 7 2025 / 2015 Sawtelle Blvd LA CA 90025

At some point you realize you don’t really “turn your life around”, life just continues happening and those layers of experiences, although painful at times, continue to shape you as a person and (hopefully positively) inform your decision-making going forward. Pulling out one of my favorite quotes - “The path isn’t a straight line; it's a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.” That being said, I felt the worst in my adult life when I was freshly 27 and I feel basically fine now. So, 3 years? There was no one thing I did to feel better… I just forced myself to complete actionable items every day that I knew were healthy, even though I didn’t want to or didn’t see the point. Very basic stuff. Chop water, carry wood. And if I got random opportunities that I knew would expand my perspective, I took them, even though I didn’t feel particularly good while I was doing them. I focused on stability, morality, nourishment, and movement. Whatever the deal is right now, you’ll feel better eventually. And probably never feel that low again, since you’re developing resilience and coping skills right now just by surviving.

writers and their cats: toni morrison / albert camus / patricia highsmith / ursula k. le guin / ernest hemingway / iris murdoch / tove jansson / joyce carol oates

Louise Glück, from “The Sensual World”, Poems 1962 - 2012

gastronomy by Jessica Poli

Higashiyama, Meguro, Tokyo / JUN 2023

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