in the midwest it seems like natural spaces are most often adjacent to the loudest forces of colonization – airports, highways, rivers with a regular trickle of people’s speedboats for some reason. a wetland park by my parent’s home is apparently neighbored by a shooting range.

crowd & orchestra tuning at the CSO before the last of three sold out shows by joe hisaishi in chicago (i didn’t record the actual performance, i promise !)

ty j for helping me see my hero, this night was special

writing music pretty much for the first time in 8 years. fully away from computer this time & it feels rlly good :) it’s taking me like a month to write one piece, it feels like having a puzzle going & every now & then i sit down to add a couple pieces (in the form of like a million voice memos).

(cue photo evidence of my childlike handwriting)

here’s what the place where I live now sounds like, and a photo of margaret (margie for short)

last time taking my favorite river walk by this apartment (i mean, i’ll come back, right?)

mystery creatures heard from within my neighbors apartment

gate opening creature in koreatown on leap day