Exploring NYC through 26 words
These are the dopest effects you’ve seen since ’94. Music provided by M.I.A., Snoop Dogg, and Pharrell Williams. Dopeness provided by The Fresh Boys. Yeah, you know what it is.
Heather Evans. Mother of one of my closest friends is a true inspiration to me. She is a beautiful, healthy, strong, single mother of four girls, working hard as an investment banker for one of the world’s top firms. In many ways, she is what I aspire to be like. I would like to be an investment banker for a firm like Goldman Sachs, happy, completely control of my life and have 4 lovely children. As I sat down for dinner with the Evans family in Brooklyn, NY, it just amazed me how nice, relaxed, and put together this woman was. And it’s no joke raising four children on your own. Thank you Ms. Evans for the pleasure of meeting and dining in your presence and further inspiring me to pursue my future goals. You are at the highest point.
Here’s a list of J words that I discovered during my artist Abecedarium:NYC residency at the McDowell Colony. I spent two weeks reading the dictionary, looking for words that sparked my curiosity, sent my brain into a reeling spin, or simply sounded good when read out loud. A few of my favorites in this list include: jejune, jackstone and joey. With all of the ramshackle building going on in New York right now, there seemed to be no choice other than “jerrybuild” if we wanted to reflect the zeitgeist of the day. LS
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