October 26, 2025

We carry yesterday, today and tomorrow

This week:

- planes, trains and automobiles
- met two babies
- had breakfast with someone I last hung out with in undergrad after running into them randomly at BAM, because New York is like that
- saw Did You Eat? at the Public Theater
- started worrying about Hurricane Melissa
- continued worrying about T&T
- was reminded to hold on to joy, defiantly
- made it to pilates, twice
- voted, as did tens of thousands of other New Yorkers
- finally figured out dip pens

What are you carrying with you from yesterday and today into tomorrow? What are you letting go?

Attribution

We carry our islands sinking under the sea

We carry our hands, feet, bones, hearts and best minds for a new life

We carry diplomas: medicine, engineer, nurse, education, math, poetry, even if they mean nothing to the other shore

We carry railroads, plantations, laundromats, bodegas, taco trucks, farms, factories, nursing homes, hospitals, schools, temples…built on our ancestors’ backs

We carry old homes along the spine, new dreams in our chests

We carry yesterday, today and tomorrow

We’re orphans of the wars forced upon us

We’re refugees of the sea rising from industrial wastes

— from Things We Carry on the Sea by Wang Ping