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Happy weekending✨ Tomorrow we’ll be dousing DTLA with confetti in our second west coast, sold-out Open Studios🤩 #confettiyoself

💥 I am whatever I believe me to be. words via @byron.katie #confettiyoself

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. words via @earlnightingale #confettiyoself

Chaos magic is the idea that a particular set of beliefs serves as an active force in the world. In other words, we choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen or not. words via @sophiaamoruso #confettiyoself

Sometimes you meet someone, and it's so clear that the two of you, on some level belong together. As lovers, or as friends, or as family, or as something entirely different. You just work, whether you understand one another or you're in love or you're partners in crime. You meet these people throughout your life, out of nowhere, under the strangest circumstances, and they help you feel. words via @auliqice #confettiyoself

Today marks the beginning of the last year of my twenties. This was my first and only confetti photo as I created @the_confetti_project when I was 25 - right before my father was diagnosed with cancer. For a year, my life was cancer and confetti. I was either dousing humans with confetti in my bedroom in Williamsburg exploring what they celebrate in their lives or driving to the suburbs of NJ, helping my father fight for his life. Looking back, the timing of it all still takes my breath away as it reminded me that there’s always a silver lining. Ideally, we would love to put our pain and pleasure in separate boxes but they’re always going to be intertwined. Right after he died, I remember feeling so liberated at the notion that I could die 5 minutes from now. If I did, how could I find joy in this moment? Right now? Even if it’s filled with pain, challenge or adversity. Since losing him, I try to acknowledge the beauty of every moment because then I can look back at my life without regret and know that all my moments here were meaningful. 4 years later, the work has grown into something bigger than myself and is reminding others to be present to the moments of their own lives. I’m not typically in front of the scenes on here as everything is co-created with every human that has participated but I felt compelled to share this milestone. Most of my twenties have been filled with hunger, hustle and immense sacrifice going down an uncarved path. I created this out of curiosity and passion. But I continue to dedicate myself to it in honor of my grief. Every milestone comes with challenge. Every collaboration, a lesson. Every day, I acknowledge the calling to keep going, even when it gets hard or would be easier to stop. Since I became fatherless, I knew I had to share my story of losing my hero while finding my purpose. This winter, I’ve been in immense hibernation, re-living the most beautiful and painful parts of my life, culminating in the first draft of the Cancer&Confetti story. I want to thank you all for joining me on the ride. I appreciate you and can’t wait to hear all of your own stories someday because every life is here to be seen, heard and celebrated.

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