start having conversations, it will bring the spark back.

it "dawned" on me that i should make a PSA about this song considering it has been an anthem to many magical mornings since i was 17. in the tiny town i moved to my senior year of high school, there are two large causeway bridges on either end of the city that connect you from the mainland to the beach. in florida, the terrain is so flat that your field of vision rarely has the opportunity to get even close to a birds eye view which is why i liked going on the one further sou

europe, artist residency, and the next focus sprint (!!) i arrived in lisboa a few days ago and honestly, this was not on my bingo card. after months of no word from the brazilian embassy about my visa, i got tired of sitting in suspense in the states. so i followed the sagittarius urge to pop over to a new country, flying out of miami to london (~9 hours) then london to lisbon (3 hours) which had me feeling 🥴 but i believe red eyes are a special moment for the minds eye, i

there are two kinds of people in this world, those who can sleep on planes, and those who are wide awake as if their eyelids are glues to their forehead. i fall into the latter camp so i an not too enthused to book red eye international flights. it's a moment where everyone else is snoozing so it feels morally irresponsible to have a movie playing or your phone out because, in a dark cabin it's comparable to waiving around a strobe light. even if i were the only passenger onb

i have called brazil home for 2 years now. while there, if you told me i was about to spend almost five months in florida, i would have looked at you like you had a bajillion heads followed with a "there is no fucking way". i arrived in miami early january with the intention to see all of my loved ones, get visa requirements taken care of and be on my mary way back to rio de janeiro, no later than mid march. this seemed like a reasonable timeline since the student visa i did

whatever you want more of in life, use what you already have of it, intentionally. we all understand this in terms of fitness, if you want more muscles, you have to workout what you've got. yet, we forget to apply this logic to the rest of our desires. so if you want more confidence, then get comofortable with your current capacity. more money? honor and optimize what is in your account today. more joy, simply requires seeking pleasure in the littlle things. food for thought