This last winter season, my team at @aaciamplify and I created a winter gingerbread land AND executed an arts conference for youth in #ESSJ, I went to 🍬 Candytopia with my cousins, I made 🍚 rice and mac n cheese for Thanksgiving, my iPhone screen cracked📱, I cried, I cried, I cried, my second play in the #realworld was produced at @bindlestiff_sf, my uncle never quit in his fight against leukemia, I volunteered with 🇵🇭 @lead_filipino as the #FlyPinays2019 Program Director, I learned more about civic engagement as a student with @apali_org. I met an amazing group of theatre artists @more.mas.marami 🎭 with plans to produce theatre in San Jose. I started using 🏋🏽‍♀️ weights in my exercise?! I went to yoga 🧘🏽‍♀️ for the first time and it felt like the sweatiest and most PRESENT moment in my life???? I started approaching my emotions and my relationship in a way I’ve never done before. I went to three 🦈 @sanjosesharks games and they WON. I watched Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse twice 🕷I started watching We Bare Bears 🐻🐼 I’ve experienced new things; the good, the bad, and the baffling. … I’m feeling like a lot of things are falling into place, while a few other things are falling out. And I indulged in ice cream, beer, boba, and more 😅

For real, this winter season has probably been the most challenging in my life and I guess that’s what growing up is, amirite. As challenging as it was… it was probably the most growth I’ve had since graduating college. I contemplated many of my relationships, touched base with others, connected with new, breath-of-fresh-air, REAL AUTHENTIC, spirited souls. Life’s been this teeter-totter, giving me new signs and changing my mind every week. We don’t gotta have it figured it out right now. We don’t gotta compare. We don’t gotta do anything but be our best. And I promise, we are all doing our best. 💟

Many thanks and shout outs to my people for holding it down and holding each other. Let’s chat if you wanna, #letsbloom2019 for sure.

Roll with the punches, peeps! 👊🏽 This year, I’ve already seen a live spoken word performance, got tickets to my first music festival, ate dumplings, CRIED, (re)started working on my WIP play, BEGAN A GYM ROUTINE wtf, got headaches 3 days in a row, finished reading my first YA novel in years, forgot to pay my Target REDcard on time, got my first oil change for my own car, recorded my first spoken word video, and hung out with all my cool peeples 😌 What happens when you just let life happen 🌀