• (*new*) hey you listen to me ok. you do not need to wait for your friends to dote on you every moment of the day. you do not need to waste your time waiting on people who do not make you a priority. you need to go out and explore the beauty of life. i believe that you can do it **
• You do not need to keep redefining your aesthetics. your aesthetics are fine. your aesthetics are defined. you are naturally yourself! don't worry about silly things like your hair and clothes and makeup, (especially when they already look good, ok!)
• What you should be working on is staying physically active, taking your vitamins, eating healthy food, drinking water, getting your school work done, having fun meeting new people and being nice to yourself :) enjoy your friendships, your work-life, your lovely love for another human be...

• #1 is seriously you have to stop fucking being obsessed with creating a new look for yourself bae! you look good and you have a distinct and unique style all your own! you can do it! do you know what the key is? CONFIDENCE mate. you have to believe in yourself and even if maybe you think other people look 5x better than you, you can pretend until you believe it mate! I believe in you! and all people will see is your confidence and then they will believe it too. that is the key to success. believe in yourself
• #2 is you need to start getting physically active again instead of just sitting indoors and scrolling through instagram for five thousand hours wasting your time away. schedule a time for tennis or yoga that you can do on a regular basis, just get out there and sweat it out a bit because when you do exercise you glow and i want ...

J.D SALINGER

• De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period
  • Suddenly…the sun came up and sped toward the bridge of my nose at the rate of ninety-three million miles a second. Blinded and very frightened, I had to put my hand on the glass to keep my balance. When I got my sight back, the girl had gone from the window, leaving behind her a shimmering field of exquisite, twice-blessed, enamel flowers.
  • ...in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.

ALLEN GINSBERG

• Sunflower Sutra
  • Poor dead flower? when did you forget you were a flower? when did you look at your skin and decide you were an impotent dir...

MAY

• Isle of Dogs - Wes Anderson
• Broadcast News - James L. Brooks
• Symbiopsychotaxiplasm - William Greaves

(semi) post-collegiate special edition!

MAY

• A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf 5/15
• What Did You Eat Yesterday vol.3 - Fumi Yoshinaga

APRIL

• Invisible Influence - Jonah Berger 4/15
• What Did You Eat Yesterday vol.1 - Fumi Yoshinaga
• What Did You Eat Yesterday vol.2 - Fumi Yoshinaga

books to understand science

• a short history of nearly everything - bill bryson
• the canon: a whirligig tour of beautiful basics of science - natalie angier
• my beloved brontasaur - brian switek
• trespassing on einstein's lawn - amanda gefter

books to better understand anxiety + mental illness

• the power of different: the link between disorder and genius
• life inside my mind - 31 authors share...

classic feminist texts

• the second sex
• feminism is for everybody
• antigone
• a room of one's own

• head in the cloud (about google)
• freud: making of an illusion
• vitamin n
• sisterhood is powerful by robin morgan
• anna karenina
• the possessed by elif batuman
• the brothers karamazov
• a brief history of anxiety
• taste in an age of endless choice
• beauty sick
• blue mind
• the stars in our eyes
• life's ultimate questions
• the mighty franks
• the futilitarians
• negroland
• the irresponsible traveler
• goodbye things, the new Japanese minimalism - fumio sasaki
• walden
• it didn't start with you

colors:

• power colors: tomato red, ocean blue, golden yellow, emerald green, power pink
• accent colors: navy blue, burnt orange, pale pink
• neutrals: grey, white, black

patterns:

• thin stripe, eyelet lace, gingham or solids

hair & makeup

• sharp bold haircut in a powerful natural color + well groomed eyebrows + clear skin + mascara + one black and one fun color liquid eyeliner + chapstick or good lip stain

clothes:

• silky short sleeve oxfords
• oxfords