magic on sunday: 7 years in nyc
a few weeks ago i was walking with my friend bea and we stopped at this place called tiny's giant sandwich shop. years ago when i lived in the lower east side, i would stop by every morning on my way to work and grab a coffee - an iced americano usually. as i placed my usual order, i was overcome by the strange feeling of engaging in a ritual that i haddn’t repeated in over four years – struck by the act of revisiting a life that i used to have that now feels so foreign. i almost wanted to defensively tell the man at the register something like, “hey, i used to come here all the time! you're not the person who would take my $3.25, but i knew exactly how much this cost before you even told me.”
this feels like an appropriate story to tell you because it's my 7 year anniversary in nyc today. the only momentous part of this "milestone" is that it's the one that kinda hit me with the realization like, “um, ok so we're doing this? you're here forever or until a really, exceptionally good reason pulls you away.”
two weeks ago i signed my lease at my current apartment for the 3rd time and painted a wall dark blue, solidifying my commitment to the little nook i lovingly call #thefancybodega. it was 10 summers ago that i was barely a drinking age intern at universal music, living at columbia, and somehow getting by on money i didn't have, when i knew this city was my corner of the world.
new york, luckily, has always been mostly easy for me (which i vow to never take for granted, because i know it won't always be this way). it's a place i dreamed of the way every little girl did, and it's a place that's taught me every hard and good lesson that's some how helped me keep my head straight.
i woke up this morning and started my day in park slope, spent a few hours in tribeca, walked through union square, meandered around williamsburg, biked to brooklyn heights and then biked back home to park slope. it was the perfect way to spend my 7 year anniversary in a city i'll probably call home for the rest of my life.
magic on sunday: 06.11.17
home (pt. 1 & 2) - current joys
you don't know about me - ella vos
words - naaz
blue magic (waikiki) - son little
in undertow - alvvays
out worn - soccer mommy
orange juice - bellows
until sunday,
meghan
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