Lovely everyone, I’m sorry. I’m sorry it’s been so long since I updated here. A lot of you can probably relate: we’re the lucky ones who are still employed, but with the layoffs cutting our friends and colleagues, we find we’re doing the jobs of two or three. Work takes over every day of the week. We are grateful to be working—truly, we are—but we’re called to show our gratitude with many little sacrifices.
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It’s been hard for me to make time here, and worse, hard to see the beauty in the city all around. But as I was leaving work on Saturday at about 5:30 pm (I am grateful. I am grateful.) I discovered this mysterious palm grove sprouting up right downtown. | |
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I’m sure in a week or two it will be completed, contextualized—a McDonalds playland? something equally, complacently artificial, and therefore, paradoxically, on this bustling street, natural—but for now, it’s intriguing and beguiling and utterly surreal. Hooray for a green plexiglass kick in the ass, jolting me out of my self-absorbtion, reminding me that, even exhausted and downtrodden, I can still choose to be someone open and aware, someone who sees life and magic—because it is, it still is all around. |
