“ He is not the sun. You are. ” — Christina Yang

train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.

• the departed
• fish tank
• paradise now
• reqium for a dream
• magnolia
• another earth
• mysterious skin
• century of the self
• lawrence anyways
• BOREALIS movie
• room
• the falling
• the last hammer blow
• a tale of three cities
• stories we tell

• the opposite of loneliness- marina keegan
• the handmaid's tale- margaret atwood
• the art of asking- amanda palmer
• east of eden- john steinbeck
• daring greatly- brine brown
• the complete stories- clarice lispector

• “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

• “Yet you still value the things you’ve lost the most. Because the things you’ve lost are still perfect in your head. They never rusted. They never broke. They are made of the memories you once had, which only grow rosier and brighter, day by day. They are made of the dreams of how wonderful things could have been and mus...

• finch's tea and coffee house
• railtown cafe
• platform 7
• pallet coffe roasters
• lost + found cafe
• nelson the seagull
• ed's daily commissary
• studio 126
• O5 tea

• taiwan
• chingdao
• tokyo
• macau
• portland
• garibaldi lake
• ice caves
• banff