You are like the winter sun,

bringing hope on the coldest days.

Like a soft smile that falls onto my face

unexpected… yet it still arrives.

A star

A reliable one

Always there

Just simply existing

Trying Ebru art felt like a quiet return to my roots in a way I didn’t expect.

When I was a kid, I watched the movie Perfume, and it has stayed with me ever since. It taught me something I've never been able to shake: we forget what we saw, we forget what we heard, but we rarely forget what we smelled. This is why I'm making a perfume.

Arizona Cactus Garden is one of my little hidden gems. It’s tucked away in the heart of the Bay Area, right inside Stanford University.