"We are all full of ghosts, people and cities we no longer visit but within whom we felt incredibly alive, and there is no reason to pretend they never existed. I wish I could hold those ghosts closer even, telling them that I forgive them for any indiscretion I may have at one point tried to scrub away with a ball of steel wool. Because trying to erase someone completely only makes their presence in your life more pointed — they are an intruder, they are violating your emotional restraining order and reminding you you cannot escape them." 
— Chelsea Fagan, How Do You Move On?

All the classes I've been teaching are slowly murdering me.

Gotta take a breather man.

And I can't believe Mustafa would be the place I have my retreat at.