from summa cum laude to silent bohemian, i’ve swung from extreme to extreme but miraculously emerged from my formative years calm and centered and in love with the world. along the way i was somewhat compulsive about recording it all by way of random thoughts scribbled on every spare scrap of paper. today these survive in piles along with drawings, letters, journals, and notebooks filled to the brim. my biggest fear was that i would die and someone would have to sort through it all and wonder at my sanity. my second biggest fear was that it would all be for naught - either get lost or thrown out, leaving all those years of emotion and discovery wherever it goes for most people who forget what it’s like to grow up…

paying tribute to the girl who wanted to be sure of no regrets, here in these pages shall i archive the old alongside the new, creating closure while bounding off joyfully to my new life of love… indeed, in the spirit of carpe annum, existing in a constant state of departure while always arriving…