well, for a whole host of reasons, this year has been pretty great.

but as with most things, I am sure there will come a time when I will look back and feel mnemonic even about the not-so-swell days.

“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, I told him, like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”

Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi