Jonathan Leveck

Charlotte. It's lightning outside. Thunder, rain, beauty. Today was work and walks. Water and booze. Coffee and ink. Duke Ellington's "Fleurette Africaine." Chest, face, teeth, longing, laundry. Chats with vague friends and strangers. I overstepped, apologized, and let go. I led and I was.

09.05.2025 05:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Debating the ease of pasta prep vs. the relative ease-ier ease of a protein bar, before caving to the easy-est ease of letting this cocktail and sleep hold me over ‘til breakfast.

28.03.2025 03:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

At a long-stay Hyatt in greater not-Philadelphia, convincing myself that this is not what takes me out. They’ve offered something other than meat-flavored meat product for breakfast this morning, so I’m braving the tater-tots. Which are… tater-tot-shaped.

#Philly #HotelLife #NotTodaySatan

27.03.2025 11:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Prepped an album, before sitting down to ink and coffee. Willy Colon & Co. eye me from across the room, all of us awaiting an appropriate hour to drop the needle… Pre-dawn, shared walls… “Music, whatever-whenever” seems a compelling argument for a mortgage.

#NowPlaying #vinyl #fania #apartmentlife

21.03.2025 12:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A brief, deceptively heartening conversation with a friend this morning, regarding trauma therapy, and the virtue of death in any rebirth worth its salt...

Adulting: Spinning the horror flick of youth into a "feel-good-show" ending.

#therapy #adulting

20.03.2025 16:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What wormhole, to what alternate reality, to furnish the needs of my entire apartment with a single extension cord?

#apartmentlife

12.03.2025 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

*know nothing about Magic; need this deck box, regardless...

11.03.2025 20:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My mind keeps foraging for wakefulness, around 3:00am. I managed to push through and get back to sleep last night—maintaining calm through sheer force of will; like forcing a flower to grow with one’s fists…

03.03.2025 11:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Meditation: "Left to my own devices, my mind is like a monkey on LSD, y'know... at a mall..."

Love: "...I do believe it's who we are. I think we're love, with, uh... with skin on..."

- Anne Lamott

Thank you @bethbonness.com & @marykarr.bsky.social, for the introduction to @annelamott.bsky.social

17.02.2025 02:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Heh. The [actual] Artist's Way... I call this "procrastivity". The act of being productive at one task by way of avoiding another...

16.02.2025 21:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A "c" of clouds, in eggshell blue, floods the sky over Charlotte's skyline, near-sunset. A splash of palest yellow in the nearest parting of clouds, a swipe of pink-orange at the horizon.

On the balcony with Charlotte. #goldenhour #CharlotteNC

14.02.2025 22:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A hint of Kenny Burrell's iconic album cover "Midnight Blue" backdrops the counterweight of a turntable's tonearm. The record spins; its label a motion-streaked blur of delicate whites and blues.

Sipping Lelo. Listening to Kenny Burrell. #jazz #vinyl #booze

14.02.2025 05:01 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0