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DAILY DAVID - DAY 304    DAILY DAVID - DAY 303  LIKE TO ART JOURNAL? I've been meaning to tell you about my friend Hilde's upcoming class with A Million Memories. She's an amazing artist and I have absolutely no doubt that this class is going to rock! Between her class and Vivian's class I am excited to make some amazing art journal pages this month! PHOTO OF THE DAY - DAY 302  DAILY DAVID - DAY 302  DAILY DAVID - DAY 301  CATALYST 33 - A NON-PROFIT BOOKSTORE  Here are my thoughts: This is one of the few catalysts that had me thinking for a long time. For some reason, I couldn’t come up with an answer. I thought and thought. Finally, as I was driving to work one morning, the answer hit me. I wanted to buy a bookstore, for me. Was it too selfish to use this money for myself? Maybe. But I decided that’s what my catalyst was going to be about anyway. Even if others think it’s selfish. Years ago, I volunteered at this amazing bookstore in New York City. This store looked the way bookstores should look. It has wooden, spiral staircases. Tables everywhere for people to sit and browse. A little coffee shop in the back to relax and enjoy. Fantastic, knowledgeable staff. And some of the best speakers and authors came to read at the store. The best part was that the bookstore was completely non-profit. All the books were donated and all the proceeds went to this organization that provided shelter and aid to people who were affected by AIDS. Ever since my years at that store, I’ve always wanted to have a nonprofit bookstore of my own. One full of used, donated books. One with a little coffee shop of its own. One with volunteers who love books as much as I do. One where people love to visit and where great authors come to read from their masterpieces. One where all the proceeds are donated across nonprofits. My passion is education so I would start by donating to nonprofits that favor education but my hope is that we can affect change in some way. Even if it’s a tiny one. A FEW ROUGH DAYS I wanted to thank you for your good wishes. We're very excited and thankful for this little baby. The last few weeks have been really rough on me. I seem to have really bad morning sickness. I had a lot of this with David, too, but this time it's almost worse. I can't seem to keep enough water down so I have already been to the Urgent Care twice in the last 5 weeks to get some extra water into my body. I am hoping the nausea will be over soon but I wanted to let you know cause it's why things are a bit intermittent over here. On a wonderful note, the baby seems to be doing fine and I am eternally thankful for that. DAILY DAVID - DAY 300  DAILY DAVID - DAY 299  DAILY DAVID - DAY 298  DAILY DAVID - DAY 297  SOME HAPPY NEWS  I haven't been around much because I've been really really ill. I was quite sick with David, too, but this time it's been quite worse. I've had trouble holding down and food or water. A few weeks ago I was in the hospital for an IV which helped turn things around a bit and now I am able to hold a meal a day down on most days. I can't wait until this nausea passes. If it's anything like David, the rest of my pregnancy should be uneventful (hopefully!). Anyhow, I am delighted to finally share and very excited for the new member of our family. CATALYST 32 - THE GIRL WITH THE DIARIES  Here's my text: When I read this catalyst, the first thing that came to my mind were my diaries. From nine to nineteen I wrote diaries every day. And I mean every single day. I was the girl who never shared her secrets with anyone but the dairies. I took them everywhere with me and all my friends joked about reading them. But nothing deterred me. I never shared my secrets and I loved having my diaries, knowing they never betrayed me or shared my secrets with anyone. After a while, I just stopped. I am not sure what did it but I didn’t have the need or the will to write anymore. Maybe I finally started to trust people or maybe I realized I like to share, I’m not sure. But I haven’t successfully kept a diary since my Freshman year in college and I don’t really miss it anymore. But I still cherish my diaries from those years. The memories of the girl I was. The girl with the diaries. DAILY DAVID - DAY 296  DAILY DAVID - DAY 295  DAILY DAVID - DAY 294  DAILY DAVID - DAY 293  DAILY DAVID - DAY 292  DAILY DAVID - DAY 291  DAILY DAVID - DAY 290  DAILY DAVID - DAY 289  DAILY DAVID - DAY 288  SOME OTHER CLASSES I love taking scrapbooking classes. I love teaching them and I love taking them. So I wanted to let you know about some other classes my friends will be teaching in the next few weeks. I will be taking all of them. First up, is Becca who is one of my A Million Memories design team members. I love Becca's clean yet absolutely stunning style and I am looking forward to making this minibook with her. You can find a lot more about the class here and it also has the link on how to sign up. Secondly, is my friend Vivian. I have loved and admired Vivian's art for so long, I can't even tell you. Since she's all the way in Australia, I've begged her to teach classes online since I've met her and I am so so thrilled that she's finally doing so!! She's offering two online workshops both of which look stunning to me and I cannot wait to start them!! DAILY DAVID - DAY 287  DAILY DAVID - DAY 286  DAILY DAVID - DAY 285    CATALYST 31 - INDIVIDUALITY  Here's what I wrote: I read a lot and there are many books that have changed my life. To Kill a Mockingbird, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Great Expectations and The Little Prince just to name a few. Each of these books gave me permanent lessons and made my life different. But Jonathan Livingston Seagull stands above all of them for mostly one reason. It’s the first book I read that changed me. It’s the first book that taught me that books can change you. Change how you look at the world. Change how you look at yourself. Change the possibilities of your future. Jonathan Livingston Seagull taught me that it was ok to be different. To have differing dreams and hopes than the people around you. How it feels to be judged, but more significantly how it’s ok to be an individual. To be different. It might even be at that moment that I decided to leave Turkey one day and find more people like me in the world. DAILY DAVID - DAY 284    DAILY DAVID - DAY 283  DAILY DAVID - DAY 282  DAILY DAVID - DAY 281  DAILY DAVID - DAY 280  APOLOGIES For being gone for so long. It's been a rough and busy few weeks. Thank you so much for all your kind messages and I am so sorry I had you worried. All is ok, I assure you. More soon. Very soon. A RARE MOMENT  PHOTO SHOOT  FIVE GUMMI BEARS  CAMPING        CATALYST 30 - CHOOSING CMU  While this is not my favorite piece of art, I find it very intriguing that all the big events of my life trace back to the moment I decided to leave Turkey and move to the United States to attend college at Carnegie Mellon. On a personal level, that’s where I met my boyfriend, whom I then married and had a child with. On a professional note, CMU got me my Wall Street job which I then quit to do Teach For America and finally Google. It all started with that one decision to go to college in the United States. A decision I will forever cherish. CATALYST 29 - JAKE  I knew from the first moment I read this catalyst that it would be about my husband. My husband and I met and started dating fourteen years ago. When I first met him, I admired him for his sense of humor, for this confidence and ability to enjoy life every day. He was so much fun to be around and always made me smile. I tend to be a “glass-half-empty” kind of gal most of the time so being around him was pure joy. As the years passed, I admired him for his intelligence and ability to work hard, make good friends and seamlessly succeed in the “real” world. He still continued to be fun, but now he was much more than that. And then even more time passed and we got married and we built a life together and we had a baby. And I’ve learned to admire my husband even more. He’s patient. He’s kind. He’s loving. He’s generous. This is not to say we haven’t had rough times or even questioned things over the years. But we’ve always stuck with each other. We’ve always believed in each other and each time I was weak, he was there to be strong for both of us. He’s everything I’ve ever needed in my life from a husband, and even more importantly, from a best friend. 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