Birthdays used to make me so anxious but over the years I’ve managed to find so much ease and joy for this celebration of life. Having chill plans that include my family and friends, letting them unfold naturally without expectation, and truly enjoying the company and the people who love me.
I think everyone has weird feelings around self-celebration. Through cultivating immense self love, I’ve allowed those around me to love me as well. Accepting love on my birthday is so special now, I feel so comfortable being held and honored in a way that I used to never let myself.
I’m filled with so much gratitude today. Aging is scary and I find myself clinging onto moments, afraid that I’ll forget and lose them forever. The truth is that time passes and memories fade. I write and I write and I write and I take photos and I hug everyone tight and I breathe deeply and I try so hard to take it all in before the second passes by. As much as I try to stop time, I’ve made it through to another year. Isn’t that wonderful?
It comes around so fast. Another year of speakers, headphones, EarPods, and the sounds that stir you like none other. These are the artists who soundtrack the days of your weeks, the weeks of your months, and all four seasons. Some melodies and lyrics will come to move you in ways that nothing else can, and distill a very specific moment in time. Such is the potency of music; such is the potency of the little slideshow on your phone that runs through the music that defined your year. It even tells you exactly who you are, and about time, too.
Spotify Wrapped is, above all, a time for sharing. And so we share with you our Sound of 2023: the deep, distant, and mystical sounds of the Conch Shell. Yas queen!
one of my favourite silly little details in black sails s1 is when richard guthrie is doing his snooping and finds the portrait of the hamiltons but they clearly hadn't cast rpj yet... so there's this lovely painted portrait of louise barnes as miranda next to the most generic looking painted man you've ever seen