Please stop. I don’t want an AI summary of my Google search. I don’t want an AI summary of the text message from my friend at work. I don’t want an AI summary of the email I’m about to read. Please just stop.
Once they lost Woodland on Flatbush to “noise complaints” aka gentrification, so went Sugarcane, Bleachers, Soco, Milkriver, Basquiat’s Bottle, Imani’s (reopened as Mango Bay), Negril Brooklyn, Ode to Babel, Bed-Vyne Brew, Tilly’s, Amarachi, Bunton’s World Famous, & so many more.
Someone said “The slow burn of becoming yourself” and I think that might be one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard. It’s such a good reminder of how much it takes, how much character development, how much change, and beauty and courage it takes to reach your soul and I hope no one ever gives up on becoming themselves because it’s a never ending journey that only gets better.