More! More! More!
Oh, hi friends!
What do people want more of from you?
Maybe your friends love your photographs. Everyone says you have a beautiful voice. Readers adore your creative writing. Your empanadas make grown men weep.
People say that you shouldn’t start selling something until you have an audience that asks for it.
When people want more of something…there’s your audience.
Sometimes it’s hard to think objectively about our own strengths. What am I good at? What do I even like? Why do I have an existential crisis every week?!
But listen to the people around you and you won't have to think so much. You can, very simply, just give the people what they want.
“Only emotion endures.”
—Ezra Pound
Considering this after the holiday. Next year I probably won’t remember the little details of the night, but I will remember how it felt to stand atop the city and watch the fireworks (legal and otherwise) with my brother and friends. I know this because I can’t remember the exact taste of my grandma’s homemade ice cream—her annual 4th of July specialty—but I can remember how happy it made all of us. Emotion endures.
This Story Is Why I Love New York
Dear Diary:
I was a block away from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on my way to my first appointment with a breast surgeon when I realized I didn’t have my wallet. I was in the back of a cab, and the meter read $18.70...
Please read the rest of today’s Metropolitan Diary written by my dear friend and ridiculously talented writer Cindy Augustine. It's a perfect and poignant slice of city life. She and I met a few years ago on a fun trip gallivanting around Madrid and found out we had a mutual friend (because of course!). Cindy was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and just began her intense treatment (while still managing to write such beautiful and thoughtful pieces like the one above). If you are able, please consider helping out a fellow freelancer and donate to her fundraiser. It would mean the world to me.
Thank you for reading.
Love, Kara