down and up

walked a mile in la, think it counts as two in new york. not really sure what to do with this blog, but i told myself i would write more this year, so here i am. stopped by a vintage store i like right off the 110 (revival furniture), then decided to walk along cypress ave to a yellow coffee shop i saw on google maps, in an effort to walk more in la this year (can you tell it is still january? the resolutions are still intact).

i felt like i was gentrifying just by walking. empty sidewalks mostly, but the few people around me were wondering what i was doing out and about. can’t help but compare, i felt this in new york as well, but it’s different when there are fewer people on the streets to begin with. then as soon as i got to the yellow coffee shop, colored storefronts and low-key designer bags (and a bird shop?), plenty strolling around the streets.

a man said hi, another man said bless you, a woman on a street corner shouted no justice no peace couldn’t quite understand what she was fighting for.

this week began quite down, quite chaos— experiments not going as planned, staying up too late for no reason, thinking about things i’d rather not like to. grumpy and uncertain. i got my period yesterday and with it all the chaos disappeared. live music filled the clarity with joy.