Wearing from Marc Jacobs Eye-conic Multi-Finish Eye Palette in Cherrific – Very Merry Cherry Edition
Two weeks since moving into our new home, and it has all felt like an effortless adaptation. It’s as if this place has been waiting for us this whole time. And the timing of it all, right before the holidays, feels representative of something greater. A renewal of sorts. A preparation for a new year of positive and mindful changes to take place. We put a lot of effort our first week here to get everything we have in place so as to turn it into a sanctuary as soon as possible. And now I am here, sitting facing my window with an endless view of the Manhattan skyline, rain beating against the windows, and I couldn’t feel more at peace. And more lucky. I’ve dreamed of these calm-inducing windows for years, and here they are right in front of me. At the same time, there is still a blurry passing of time that always happens this time of the year. I can’t believe it’s already the 5th of December, and that next year we will keep going forward unknowing of the future like we did every single day before. But I am learning to see more and more beauty in unpredictability, and what the blurriness that it instills brings out of me. Gratefulness for what I have and what I can give. Seeing the fragility that can exist in the world, and having that make me never take a single thing for granted again, is a priceless learning. The end of December always makes me feel bittersweet and nostalgic. A sad sort of happiness. A teary smile. A blurry stillness. Taking a bite of the very last cherry. And then I remember we will have so many more Decembers to look forward to.
