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Mike Cipriani

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settling into the new role taken in Denver, Colorado by @isthatcip

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happy birthday paris, my forever safe space <3 taken in New York, New York by @isthatcip

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14 days ago

happy birthday emma, my favorite person ever,,,, so here is my favorite picture ever <3 by @isthatcip

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19 days ago

my intuition is my joy & prrriiidddeeee by @isthatcip

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a month ago

My nightly routine is ritualistic. I feel as addicted to it as I’ve felt to anything. It’s simple and silly, but it means something to me. I make my medley of nuts and put it in my little ceramic bowl. I mix my lemon ginger with my elderberry immunity tea. Every bite of an almond or a walnut is washed down with a mouthful of hot tea. I don’t know if it actually does anything for my health, but when I sip it, I feel like a remote that just got a fresh set of batteries. Press my buttons and you’ll get exactly what you want. Last night I spilled a good bit of my tea on my bedroom floor. I put a dish towel down to dry it up. After a moment, I looked down and saw the towel was perfectly set up on my bedside floor. It was as if it was begging me to get on my knees and pray, which is not by any means part of my routine. I actually can’t tell you the last time I did anything like that. But the pull and the urge was undeniable, and before I knew it I was knelt down, elbows to mattress, fingers crossed and eyes shut with a fury. I was spewing words like I’d never seen them in order, yet practiced them 100 times over. They made no sense until they did. The direction was unclear until we got there. I’ll keep the details down low. But the point is this, I got back to my feet with more questions than I had before, certainly. But also with more peace and confidence than I’d had in a while. And maybe that was this prayers purpose - a reminder that those two are not parallel. Knowledge verse clarity. Religion verse spirituality. Logic verse feeling. Thinking verse flowing. Flow flow flow on.

Compounding Sun - part 2 of morphing my summer. I like these black and white photos, really happy with how they turned out & how they kinda blend together. This writing is another blurb from my journal - I am dipping my toes into a more spiritual world & im quite looking forward to the journey of flowing with a bit more acceptance. So I’m gonna title this ‘flowing’ <3 by @isthatcip

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It’s like my dreams know exactly what I need. My last one was of Conrad and I taking our bikes for a spin to nowhere. We timed up our tunes and queued up our current favorites. Mine was Mr. Hakim! His was one I’d never heard before but I liked it more than my own. Theres a stretch of bumps & holes on Thames Street, but if you stay straight you can avoid them all. No need to be fancy. I know this because the other day, on the same road, i was on a walk with myself and didn’t want to be alone. So I called Chrissy boy to check in and I felt so heard & seen. I tried to give it back to him tenfold. And I found it very easy to do so because I love him deeply. And I know what that feels like because i am a boy with an older sister. And she taught me about love once, and then taught me that teaching something once is often never enough. Decades of dedication later, still many days of disappointment. I’ve had a really tough year this month. It’s Monday morning again - hoping to have a great life this week… I more than likely will because of everyone that proceeds and chimes in between. And because of my alarm clock that disguises itself as the skylight in my bedroom ceiling. And because of my past lives for acquiring all the taste I have for this life. I’m hungry and I just ate, I just ate but im stillllllll hungryyyyyy. When you know those both to be true you’ll find a way through.

Compounding Sun, Part 1 - this is my attempt at morphing together moments of summer. This writing is a little excerpt from my journal. I wrote it earlier this month, i think i will call it ‘find a way’ by @isthatcip

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here i am again, where it really counts by @isthatcip

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3 months ago

29th stretch

Too thin i start to lose grip. Not enough i start to miss the trip. Special, difference, excellence. Contra! The tug towards our familiar, similar, usual. Hell is just that. Might have to wait for the next oddity to see the last’s severity. Infinity minus one. It’s the same but a little different. Thank goodness. It never changes but the thought of it does. Thank goodness. Sometimes it all feels like a warm up for the rest. A stretch for the next. Turns out numerical doesn’t mean divisible. Infinity minus one. Bend but don’t break now. Turns out that makes this one a prime step. So best be on your ready, set.

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I used to work for these words & figure that film. I used to bleeeeeed for my reps. It was so hard for me and so not what it’s supposed to be. I wept when my back hurt cuz I bent over backwards. I damn near broke my wrist trying to meet cursives twist. I pushed it and pressed on without patience or preparation.
It’s just that I really love what I really love… It’s just that I know this pleasure won’t always be routine, these peaks much harder to reach. I’m told there is only so much time & I’ve never been able to get that out my mind. Now I’m seeking peace through admittance and acceptance. Trying to find the strength to fold before I love to extinction.
But it is so hard for me. I don’t go many days without it - without thinking about how the order of these words mean something to me. How the permanence and particularity of my steps make me feel better than before I took them. They are the few things that make me feel whole because they are the few things that are all my own. I still bend for them, I twist my wrist, I grind my mind. But these days there is some coordinance mixed with that craziness. ( not too much now ). A touch or a dash of a rough draft. A perforated boundary that separates made-up territories.
What spills is what we allow. What we capture is what we choose to contain. It’s nothing more, it’s nothing less, and most times it’s not even that. It’s just happenstance.. Just trying ur hand at a new, stupid dance.. Just trying to find happiness in the midst of a hard stretch. by @isthatcip

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5 months ago

my likeness by @isthatcip

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9 months ago

The movies I watched this past year that I loved, liked & hated. No, I will not get letterboxd - purely out of principle & stubbornness. I do it my way, with my excel spreadsheets. Leave me some recommendations pleeeeeSssseeee by @isthatcip

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9 months ago

Columbus Marathon 10/19/25

Was really special to do this race in a a place I used to live. Passing old apartments & streets of mine, thinking back to who I was & where I was at that point in my life.. marathons weren’t even in my realm of thinking. A great reminder of how far I’ve come and how far I still want to go.

But man oh man, that was the toughest shit I have ever done. Mentally and physically (as you can tell by my face in these pics lol). Rain, wind & a little hypothermia - but we got it done and it feels real good on the other side.

Always gotta thank Danny Boy for pushing me - wouldn’t have signed up and accomplished this without him.

And most importantly, the support from my beautiful girlfriend and amazing parents/sister is incomparable. Lucky boy I am.

Sub 3 one of these days.. taken in Columbus, Ohio by @isthatcip

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a year ago

Hi!! ! It’s that time of year again - year 6 of the GFWU charity event. I’m so excited to get my lil community together for a month of being ACTIVE - all in the name of a critical & topical cause

This year all the donations will be going to FREEDOM FOR IMMIGRANTS, an immigrant-led, abolitionist organization devoted to freeing people from the bonds of jails, prisons, & detention centers. “Abolition is not simply about eradicating the profit-driven incarceration system — it’s about building the life-affirming care we all need to lead dignified lives”. There is a lot of nonsense going on in the world right now, but this one is top of mind for a lot of us. It’s hard to fathom the mental terror, emotional pain & physical toll that ICE and other immigration detention systems put on so many INNOCENT ppl. I struggle w/ issues of this severity, bc like a lot of people, I often feel helpless. But small doses of support & awareness can go a long way & accumulate to something much greater. I hope u all join me in supporting the cause ❤️

For those that don’t know this fitness charity event starts August 1 and goes until August 31. The goal of the challenge is for each participant to complete 100 miles (running or walking) within that timeframe. We track everyone’s miles using the Nike Run Club app, which allows all the competitors to see a live leaderboard. The 1st person to complete 100 miles gets a $25 giftcard of their choice

ANYONE CAN PARTICIPATE! All u have to do is donate a minimum of $15 to the fund. You can do this by directly donating to the GoFundMe that has been created for this event OR you can Venmo me @ michael-cipriani-2. Either way works! I invite every1 who plans to participate to share with at least 1 person they think might be interested. For any more info on how to join, please follow @gfwufund or reach out 2 me directly

I’m endlessly grateful for all the ppl that go out of their way to join this event, donate & spread the word. I could never do this alone. 6 years is crazy - it makes me emotional to think abt the 1st year & where it all started. Using fitness to support a great cause brings me an immense amount of joy & I’d love for u to join <3 taken in New York, New York by @isthatcip

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