Late Morning on a Roof in Nolita (Patreon)

These photographs were taken of me by photographer Liam Scott on a roof in Nolita in lower Manhattan just over a year ago, just after my twenty-eighth birthday. This was also a time of great change and introspection, similar to how I'm feeling today, and most days for that matter. I had just moved back to NYC a month or two prior to these images being taken. I had moved from Brooklyn to Colorado. The location of this shoot was ironic, as I had stayed in almost that exact same building a year or two prior when visiting the city with my mom one summer, catching up with friends, etc... after everything that had happened... miami, the drugs, the marriage, moving, rehabilitating, etc. On the train yesterday, during my meditation, I was looking at these images, almost like a movie, seeing myself from the outside, then my mind went back in time and I watched myself growing up, I saw my face and felt my personality at age 11, then moved on, its so magical, the human experience. Growing, changing, evolving. Life truly is a miracle. This is hard to remember sometimes, when emotions are so heavy I have to cry, but thats all part of it. Happiness wouldn't feel so good, it wouldn't be itself without the other, its opposite. So grateful for my highs and lows, and moments of transcendence, meditations, trains, movement, change. So much is coming, many visions, I'm ready to go, to keep producing and creating, being and breathing, and sharing it all along the way. Thankful for my south node and jupiter in leo, and mostly for music, melodies, and the sound of silence.