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@ryan.steamed.grahams and @ektaamarnani got marrrrieeeeeeed!!!! Congratulations my loves!!! Most beautiful wedding in the universe indeed. I love yall so much, what a delightful time it was. Thank you for inviting us to be a part of it (and your lives)!! taken in Cascais, Portugal by @caden.br

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Ahhh Guru, darling kitty. I’m grateful to have shared so many years with you. Thank you for loving me, and letting me love you, too. I recognize and appreciate how much happier you made my life, and I hope I did the same for you. Rest easy lil Gu. Until we meet again. by @caden.br

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37.

Working, tinkering, changing.
36 was fucked, but boy howdy am I stoked on the growth.
I love myself today, and if we’re social media pals, I hope i see you in my 37s, cause I love you too.

New days ahead, beautiful days behind,
Wounds heal, and scars teach.

Grateful to be here for another year. ❤️🎂 by @caden.br

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2023 & Me.

It would be easy to say fuck 2023. And I wouldn’t be wrong. It was a very challenging year. I’ve taken risks I never would have taken before, experienced unimaginable joy, but unprecedented hurt as well. I am rediscovering and redefining who I am. And it takes a lot of work.

As silly as it is, I told myself at the beginning of the year I would make an effort to share more on social media. Not for validation (although dopamine hits are fun!), but as an exercise to hold myself accountable to put myself out there. To connect to people.

If we crossed paths or connected in 2023 in any capacity, regardless of the outcome, I appreciate you and I’m grateful to have shared some of this here life with you.

And I hope when I look back on this post, and on 2023 in general, instead of saying fuck it, I will appreciate the absolute joy and wonder from so so so many great moments shared with beautiful people — 7 new countries, beautiful new friends, reconnecting with old friends, concerts, new music, new life experiences, beautiful new love… but I’ll also acknowledge the lows, and be grateful for the pain, grateful for the struggles, grateful for the heartbreak, the anxiety, the loneliness. Grateful that I had the opportunity to challenge myself, challenge my boundaries, to grow, to open myself up to new experiences, open myself up to being completely vulnerable. To start therapy. Open myself up with the knowledge that I would probably end up hurt, doing it anyways, and yes, getting hurt. Because the risk was worth it. # noragrets! And I hope I keep taking risks and keep working hard to be my best self.

2024 will be hard work. I’m here for it. by @caden.br

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3 years ago

Sometimes I hate myself. The way my hairline goes up on the corners, the bumps on my shoulders, the way my beard can’t connect. A nose that’s been broken too many times. Sometimes I can’t look at myself in the mirror. Sometimes when I do, and I like what I see, it means the fault must be who I am inside — insecure. Am I boring? Unfunny? Unloveable? A talentless hack? I over think. And I feel too much. Or I feel too little. Sometimes I find beauty and joy in the smallest moments — a note on the piano, a smile from around the corner, a hand to touch. Cheese. Sometimes the weight of the world is only a warm-up set, and nothing in the verse can stop me. Sometimes I feel so anxious I can’t conceive of a life outside the weight of my covers.

Sometimes I have trouble writing the things I want to write, and even more trouble saying the things I want to say. Or I say the wrong thing and ruin something nice. Sometimes I feel so lonely in a crowd I want to crawl out of my skin and leave behind the husk. Sometimes I believe that love is something I will only ever give. Or if I just give enough, it will eventually have to find its way back. Sometimes I’m afraid when it does. Sometimes I believe life is unconscionably beautiful. Sometimes I don’t believe in anything at all.

But I try. Every day, I try.

Sometimes that’s enough.

Thank you Michael, for making me feel beautiful. More to come.
📸: @michaelseleski
🏠: @mmandarano47 by @caden.br

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4 years ago

For three weeks I’ve been hiking Costa Rican jungle waterfalls, swimming in rivers, strolling through dark, overgrown paths, each time searching for any sign of a big, beautiful spider… and the first time I find a proper gym, what does the universe present to me? My new best friend. This is Freddie. Freddie fucks. by @caden.br

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taken in Tokyo, Japan by @caden.br

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taken in Hokitika, New Zealand by @caden.br

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