The Theme Of 2023 - DECONDITIONING

Each day I want to be the best version of myself and then I fail,

and fall flat on my face, chipping two teeth and busting my lip and nose

only to realize that I can try again tomorrow. I am constantly becoming and unbecoming my best self and it gets pretty tiring trying to figure out which is which. So I drink some tea and look deep into the mirror so I can decide which version of myself I am today. And the second I realize who is staring back at me I start to become a new version of that person. A constant realization that I am both enough and not enough all at the same time, with this same face, this same brain. How can I become someone while unbecoming someone else

when I don’t even know which one was objectively better? Or more so, which one I even liked being from inside

of these eyes looking at a moving target of myself and who I want to be?

- Jonathan Greene

Image: Ren @renmakesmusic

I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence.