magic on sunday: keeping pace 🌗

friends, hello! i hope this first letter of 2017 finds you well, and if you happen to be in nyc, warm.

i distinctly remember the first day of 2016. my friend karen and i met up in the early afternoon, devoured a bowl of pho (side note: such an underrated hangover cure) and then cozied up at a coffee shop in fort greene. i spent all day writing in a journal by my favorite person on the internet, adam j. kurtz.

tonight, i pulled out that journal for the first time in a long time, because if i’m being honest, it didn’t see much light of day after mid-january, and flipped through some of the filled out pages. there was a page in it that had a cutesy little fortune teller globe and the top of the page exclaimed, “fill in your future!”

in terrible cursive i had written: patience with myself, slowing down, balance.

i was taken back a bit rereading those intentions tonight. not because i didn’t believe them, but because they felt so true in describing how my 2016 actually turned out. and, though i know it’s not true, i doesn’t feel like i put conscious effort towards making those future predictions a reality.

it’s funny, because i’ve never really been one for resolutions, and it actually takes a lot of focused energy for me to sit down and map out a vision. but tonight’s trip down memory lane was a good reminder that even just putting pen to paper can do a bit of magic.

i didn’t spend the first day of 2017 as introspective as i did 2016 (though, it was on the 1st of this year where i learned the san diego chargers fight song and oh my is it a gem), but i’ll set a quick intention tonight.

i’m giving 2017 a word, and it’s this: pace.

there’s a moment from my solo trip in october where i’m rushing though the market souks of marrakech. in a chaotic haze, i distinctly remember telling myself to slow down. to stop focusing on getting from a to z, and to breath in everything in-between, knowing i’ll eventually get to z. this scene has crept into my consciousness a lot recently and it feels like a fitting complement and build to my 2016 motives.

it is so good to write to you all again this week, and i’m looking forward to a new, paced year, sharing stories and music.

magic on sunday: 01.08.16 [spotify playlist]
air conditioning – diiv
side effects – fog lake
moving mountains – anima!
got me – st. south
little bubble – dirty projectors
brew – declan mckenna
you can – tearjerker

until sunday,
meghan

ps – next sunday’s playlist will be coming your way straight from the desert of palm springs. if you have any good recommendations, i’d love to hear them.

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