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Friday.
Todo lists are slowly being done.
Music is playing.
Light (something I appreciate more and more the less I encounter sun in the Portland gray) is streaming in my windows.
Work is being done.
And my brain started thinking so early this morning…about what I want to write about today…
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This week held three days of birth for three amazing people in my life…
A, J, and W…all of whom I wish lived closer to me and who I wish a whole new year of “yeehaw!”s and “WOOHOO!”s!!
W is my little brother…William Morgan. My little brother by 4 years.
and he is fantastic. but one of the things that he teaches me most is steadfastness.
He is a 19 year old with a 800 year old mind (a hopeful, open, wise and kind 800 year old mind…not a “wow that is sumthin’ reeeeaaaallll old” kinda mind.)
He and I have traveled the same roads but we have come out being fantasticly different people.
He is quiet and thoughtful…I tend to talk before I have a thought-full of anything.
He solves problems with a mind that seems like he has shelves and shelves of knowledge to pull from…I wing it. (One time my boyfriend broke up with me in junior high and I spent the first night just SOBBING in W’s room…I was obviously full of middle school social drama grief…and W’s reaction to this whole scene was to draw pictures of unnamed heart breaker falling off a cliff. The drawing was of course very beautifully composed and labeled. Ha!)
He stands up tall and hugs with all his might…I hug with all the mushy gushy energy I can muster.
He remembers people in the most kind and beautiful ways…I hope we are alike in this way…
He is tall…I am short.
He is in Calc 467563827292 and I was thrilled to pass Geometry and the Imagination.
But it is because of those differences and more that I am so excited for certain things in our lives. Moments that haven’t even happened yet that are already my favorite all time moments!
We are under one major understanding…and it could be the best deal that has ever been made for me…the best thing I have ever gotten for free…the best gift…ever…
We are each others biggest fan and we will always be here. He is my only brother and I am his only sister. We are a team. We are Willy and Mei.
So, to Willy! Happy birthweek sweet friend and brother! I love you!
- M.
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I have been working really hard on a bundle of different photos. Art store opening, African adventure with Janam Peace, senior photos, engagement photos, design projects, my up coming website, and also ones like above…that were just because!
It makes me hope that a little of all of those things seeps into all the others. I hope they are all cross pollinating and leaving love notes for each other! I hope the African hope and hospitality gets in and that the love from the engagements sprinkles on over and lets all get some excitement from the seniors embarking off into new worlds and…for the amount of work that art school is…I hope we are all getting something out of it!
Ha!
Hope your weekend is light and wondrous!
xo.
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