Letter to You | Oct 2025

I got terrible news on the last day of October. A bit of Halloween irony, I suppose. The sadness is still sitting with me. I haven’t really found the words to share it yet. Still, the month wasn’t without grace. There were warm moments, good food, and golden leaves.

I’ve never been much of an outdoorsy person, but over the past few years, I’ve grown to love hiking. The rhythm of walking, the quietness, the feeling of earning a view, seeing the hills brushed with gold and red.

I went to the Morgan Library & Museum, where I fell in love with the seal collection and a painting called Cloud Study by Jean-Michel Cels. I think I loved the library itself just as much, its dark wood, quiet corners, and shelves that seem to go on forever. Maybe one day I’ll have a small library of my own. A girl can dream.

The Met Cloisters was beautiful, too. The gardens weren’t in full bloom but were still lovely. I finally saw the famous Unicorn Tapestries. The room was kept relatively dark to protect them from sunlight. There’s a red stain on the unicorn’s body that I thought was a tear, but it turns out to be pomegranate juice.

My cousin told me there’s a pomegranate ripening on the tree in front of my grandparents’ house, and it’ll probably be ready to eat when I go home. My grandparents have passed away, and those houses belong to my uncles now, but to me, they’ll always be my grandparents’ house.

Everything changes, but somehow, the world keeps going on. A tree still bearing fruit, the season turning again. I hope October was sweet juice instead of bloody tears for you.

Yours Truly :)