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✨Update✨: I was very fortunate to bypass traditional chemo/radiation as the tumors did not metastasize beyond my boob. I know others in the wretched cancer club could only wish for my circumstance and I am grateful to God to be surviving.

But I am also super burnt out from being on survival mode.   It’s been soul crushing to have to be on meds that continue to make me feel WAY worse with time. Not to mention, I’m on these meds for 5 years.

And after months of trying to keep it together to find a “new” normal in a weaker body and brain, the past weeks broke me so hard mentally and emotionally. And for whatever reason, the tiny artist in me wants to express it and potentially regret it at some point.

Shout out to the brilliant @katecbowler , author of “Joyful, Anyway.” Her book was a feast of empathy at an otherwise lonely and shitty table. 🎈🎈 taken in Brooklyn, New York by @angelblee

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I’m publicly sharing very small bits of my cancer story partially for myself and mostly for anyone else out there who needs support with their own journey. I didn’t get through this alone. I couldn’t have gone through this alone. God sent me many angels. I am filled with both gratitude and remorse. There is so much more to say but for today, this is enough. 💙 by @angelblee

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✨DECEMBER GLIMMERS✨ I used to have a hard time appreciating glimmers because I needed them to be much brighter and last longer, to carry greater weight than life’s burdens. Grateful that I can now receive them as hugs and winks from God—treasures albeit brief. Hoping 2026 brings me more freedom to fail, stillness to breathe, simplicity in love, and contentment with enough. Hoping 2026 brings you whatever you may need and that soon enough, it also becomes what you want. 💙 taken in Los Angeles, California by @angelblee

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9 months ago

✨NOVEMBER GLIMMERS✨ My 할머니 (grandma) would’ve been 87 this month, but instead turned eternity with her Creator. I never knew that it would take her death to birth new thoughts and emotions that I will never get to express to her directly on this side of heaven. She lived an early life too familiar with suffering and trauma, and lived a later life with simplicity, humility and loyalty. The taste of her Korean cooking will forever be in my mouth, my gratitude for her early morning prayers forever in my heart. In exchange for her resilience and perceived lack of emotional expression, I get to nurture a deep emotional landscape and feel them for her instead. And as a friend once shared with me, we are her future. So I carry the grief of an end while simultaneously rejoicing over the beginning of her forever — a forever union with Jesus Christ. I wish I could fully explain this supernatural tension, this gift. But for now, enjoy the memories, and my young mono-lid face. 할머니, 사랑을 해줘서 감사해요. 그리고 곳뵈요. 💖🙏 taken in Koreatown, Los Angeles by @angelblee

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10 months ago

✨OCTOBER GLIMMERS✨ Shadow Thunder Lightning isn’t my dog but I wish so so so so much that he was. The month was full of anticipated gatherings, celebrations of life, autumnal hugs, and a giant cowboy hat disco ball. 🕺🪩💃🏻💫 taken in Fort Worth Water Gardens by @angelblee

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a year ago

✨SEPTEMBER GLIMMERS✨ This month, I went back to Seoul and Tokyo for the first time in 12 years. And if you saw my stories, it was a good time. But the main reason for the trip was to be of service to my father in ways I would’ve rather chosen otherwise. Tears, frustration, fear and disappointment were just as abundant as the “fun stuff” curated on social media. My father’s weak and helpless cognitive and physical state, so contrary to the independent man I’ve known for most of my life, was hard to behold. This glimmer is a different kind, as it holds both a lot of pain with joy. Maybe some of you will know what I mean, and if you do, here’s a comforting chestnut 🌰. p.s. shoutout to my big brother, eldest Byul Lee @petelee.us for being one of a handful of heroes on this trip, along with my Tennessee 외숙모 for her generous love and devotion to fam. 💖. #ilovekorea #ilovekoreanfood #iatekorea #ilovequiettrains taken in Seoul, South Korea by @angelblee

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a year ago

✨AUGUST GLIMMERS✨ this month brought a big gift my inner kiddo, friends for my inner teen, adult meals for my adult birthday, and days to do life with everyone else’s hidden family. there is always more to a person than what one sees with the naked eye. and there’s is always more to the acts that we bestow onto one another. kindness goes deep however simple it may seem. 💖 also, shout to all my fire ball august babies. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 #thisis43 taken in Brooklyn Heights by @angelblee

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✨JULY GLIMMERS✨ Home. There’s something warming about casual hangs in an intimate space. Even as a guest, I feel transported into one’s history behind their walls. There are also people who immediately bring me into their orbit, where there is very little calculation of anything but to just be. I am blessed to have a lot of home and wished I had realized it sooner. July was the month of homies and my wifey becoming a real wifey. 😭🥹💖 #butreallyhowtfisitalreadyaugust taken in Downtown Brooklyn by @angelblee

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✨JUNE GLIMMERS✨ this month was time warping. Hard moments felt too long, easy moments too short. The medium, the unmemorable mundane, is actually just about right. taken in Providence, Rhode Island by @angelblee

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✨MAY GLIMMERS✨ may met me with merciful moments of mi madre, marriages, music, museums, meetups and more. 🫶 TLDR: I’m always baffled by the speed of time. I heard somewhere that time goes by even faster for adults supposedly bc things aren’t as new so we are able to move on more quickly (this is not fact checked so haters do your own research). Maybe we need slow time to fight against becoming production robot human doings. Slow time to restore a sense of wonder. I also need to sleep more. taken in Georgia Aquarium by @angelblee

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🌹🌸🌺🌻APRIL GLIMMERS🪻🌼🌷🌸 “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” John Lennon. #butmyallergies #easter2025 #lent #seriouslymyallergies by @angelblee

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✨MARCH GLIMMERS✨ from one temp shoebox to a semi permanent one. It wasn’t an easy or known process but all the more worth it. Had to forego some things in order to slow down and enjoy it. Ya can’t eat everything. Please come visit and make it homier. 💖 taken in Brooklyn Heights by @angelblee

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