Category: Reflections

The Night Bus

As the Umatter bus passes Tower, it is stopped by a man standing in the middle of the street.  His arms are spread out above him and he’s staring into the sky as if deep in prayer.

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Constructions of Self

Makeup offers tangible preparation for the intangible, each brush of eyeshadow somehow bringing us closer to what we cannot yet imagine.

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Turning Twenty

“What was so different about turning twenty? It means I have passed something. That is to say, I have disappointed already. Former promise has resigned itself.”

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There’s Something About Alexa

“The commercial ventures into strange ground where Alexa is not just a machine or a service, but a fallible creature.”

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Lines from Love Notes or Breakup Texts

“You’re not the kind of guy people usually date.
I’m not the kinda person that people usually love.”

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Mercury in Retrograde

“If I fit so perfectly into astrology’s puzzle, why wouldn’t everyone else?”

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Left Turn

“One thing I’m sorry for is if I compressed you into that night.”

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#what’s love

“They say love is accepting one another as is, marveling at the imperfections and delighting at the quirks.”

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Induction

“But looking at this sunrise, I realized I had missed the magic of so many past ones with my expectation.”

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Telescoping Morning

“In the succeeding entries, we telescope our mornings by recounting and recasting. Each succeeding morning of a series is composed in exactly half the number of words of the previous. Diminish with us below.”

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Elevators

“Someone said this to me the other day: People always seem to press the elevator button again even if someone else has already pressed it.”

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Le Cirque, C’est Chic

One pearly-teethed, outdoors adverse Princeton debutant examines the thrilling liberation of circus arts.

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