If you need me I’ll be at my wheel 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

, 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓎 𝓈𝑜𝒻𝓉

First day, first time in Taiwan and we sit down for lunch at a food court beside two cute aunties chattering away. I push some dirty trays in front of me to make space for my bowl of noods while the aunties got their steaming bowls of rice, all ready to dig in … only to stand up and clear the dirty trays in front of me 😱 despite me telling her that it was no problem :’) a small act of kindness because she wanted me to have a pleasant eating experience — aaand such goes the rest of the trip. A bright eyed aunty taking us on a tour of her whole community garden 🍅, a broad grinned chatty Izakaya one man show filling our free flow sake tokkuri to brim🍶 general smiling faces truly concerned with the quality experience of a stranger 🥹 Cj and I would turn to each other with this face —> 🥺 every time someone engaged with us kindly, and in ways we were unfamiliar with. Left such a sweet taste in our hearts, thank you Taiwan! 🫶🏻 biggest love to the all-in-one super woman @its.bellatan for planning such an action packed trip for us :’) and the best trip mates @daddydumpling @jonchuajx @amandachaang 💖

March 24: lately I’ve been finding the ease and simplicity in life that I’ve only dreamt of for so long- it’s not easy but it’s peaceful, it’s not slow but it’s grounded. I never even realised I had been tumbling through a dryer, but I definitely felt it. It’s strange and humbling to feel like I arrived at a destination I created in my head, but here it is real and true🌅 It was always easy for me to spiral words of hurt and pain. They bounced around in my belly making me queasy, bumping into each other as I slowly drain the liquid from my tank. Then I stick a line down my gullet, a hankering hook hoping to catch not just one fish but a train sliding them up my gullet in a line so neat, eloquent and full and I feel.. relief, breath, peace. I don’t feel the same way about describing joy😂 it feels clunky, sometimes shameful. I stumble like I’m just learning to run. But good day or bad, the way the sun paints the sky always feels like a blessing. I’ve taken some of my favourite pictures of sunsets in my worst moments, but they always bring peace and remind me that beauty is baked into the essence of our lives. Anyway logging some of my favourite sunset moments and marking new chapters in my life !

4 da mems!!!! 🪐🌟💖🛸 Started 2024 ticking off 2 huge bucketlist items I never thought would see the light of day 😮‍💨 + being an absolute embARrASsssment by absolutely melting into a pile of tears in front of Chris Martin 🫠Love it how could it have gone any different😍 Ghost stories was my blanket and my lifeline (quite literally on a few occasions), and holds memories of such a complex and trying time in my life. Yet amidst all the gut wrenching intensity of young existential depressions the album stays my light in the dark, my bubble of safety, the goodness in the world. Few things in life has had that impact on me ! It’s a lovely reminder of how magical music can be and how deep it can run within us ✨ @rriley so damn proud & so damn grateful for gifting & sharing these moments :’) love uuuuuu ahhhhh

I started ceramics as an attempt to bond with my now soon-to-be mother in law. We sat outside at her pottery station talking about our views on life and how jaded I was feeling while she taught me how to pinch a pot. She’d take me to lunch then walk me through a grocery store; the uncanny valley of my life, where the shelves run on forever and the freezer aisles would chill me past my last straw; and talk me through the process of building a pantry and the different kinds of rices. She’d listen without judgement and offer a piece of fun advice then take me home for toast and tea. 

The first few months I spent with her I would go home and cry myself to sleep😮‍💨

If I know now the unconditional love that creates gratitude with no bounds, how do I continue to carry that forward? I’ll guess I’ll just have to stay tuned to find out ~
- Last Christmas she bought me my own wheel, and now I have a little studio to call my own!

ang_bao_run.final.final2024.jpg 🧧🐉🏮🍊 新年快乐！

can’t wait to marry you 💍🤍

so far so good (Y)

Oh hi there 👋🏻 don’t mind me… I made my bed, now I have to lie in it 😮‍💨 @beyondthevines Metallic Poofy in Silver in stores now ~

Bottling this feeling and storing her somewhere in the hard drive in my chest to remind myself even though I’ll never feel exactly this way or be exactly in this place I’ll always have the data encrypted in the software that is me and every update from now on 🎋

I’d never really interacted with cats, always one to proudly claim the term “dog person” and happy to regurgitate anti-cat propaganda of how they’d probably eat you yet here we are ! Brings me much delight to watch you grow more and more into a house cat and dominating the array of soft surfaces offered to you including any part of our body you please. As you learn to adapt to the life of pampering, I too have to learn to grow understand with humbling acceptance that I- as a cat parent- am not in charge……… you will sleep on my head and swat my hair, nip and at me and dart off with an energy I can only describe as crazy, wake me up multiple times a night and I will still coo and squeal that you’re a qpootiepie 😻😻