Top 24 of 2024

trying to respect the in-between years

This year was neither bad or good, though it had both. It felt like a lot of false starts and struggles; it felt like purgatory. But it also felt like flowers and water and things lost and found.

1. Trying to learn patience

2. Paletas at the beach

3. Discovering more and more of who Porter is as a person (weird, self-contained, does her own thing, a funny, sweet little ham who does not want to go to bed, not ever)

4. Scream-singing I want to be the one who walks in the sun with many other people, one of whom is Cyndi Lauper

5. Showing up and being shown up for

6. As a former 32G, let me tell you that a C-cup in the summer is great

7. The part of your mortgage statement that tells you the amount in your escrow (our mortgage doubled for 10 months because the bank and the city aren’t on the same schedule, I will explain more if you want but monitor the amount in your escrow and see what’s up if it goes in the negative. please do not tell me if you are great at doing this, I am not interested. it is borderline unethical to communicate information in a way that is not intuitive for the user, but until they fix that make sure you glance at that part of your statement.)

8. Frank’s Pizzeria

9. [redacted]

10. [redacted]

11. body neutrality while also staying in your body

12. taking what’s coming next in this country one month, day, hour at a time and picking one local aid effort to consistently commit to

13. learning your limits and never giving up

14. straightforward thrillers

15. Mexican Gothic and the idea and reality of mushrooms

16. [redacted]

17. Sean drawing Sesame Street

18. flour tortillas in San Diego

19. personal growth, ugh

20. Ripley

21. ᵢ ₗᵢₖₑ ₘᵧ ⱼₒᵦ

22. the three-word method

23. always believing that a better world is possible and actively working towards it

24. Sean’s immediate reaction following Nosferatu: Stashula!

See you in the newest year —