people normally take photos of moments that are new or notable.

i wonder do they find meaning in it?

a beautiful latte a trip a good outfit

when someone is in a new location, more becomes unfamiliar and the what might be someone else’s mundane becomes interesting.

i wonder what could be interesting but we’ve become desensitized to it.

i wonder if my friend came to visit, what she would find interesting.

what makes a place feel the way it does? how does what i feel differ from others?

what does that say about what i am used to, what i am familiar with?

i live in new jersey, yet my community is primarily in new york city. on average, my commute is 90 minutes and to my friends, thats insane yet to me, it is mundane.

a sizeable amt of my lived experience is spent in transit, yet it all congeals into a blur. can i capture that? is it necessarily good, bad, or is it just my normal?

are there aspects of my life ive written off as “mundane” that i would only notice it i moved away? an effort to live without ever saying “i wish—“