noticing

If you’re still enough, you notice.

I was at the flower market early, pulling stems before work. I took a local route home to avoid traffic. And then, in a moment, I found more than a different way back.

The house I saw that morning became my home within a few months. The life I had then became something different, too. In its own way, this house is a lesson in noticing—a continuing reminder of what happens when you’re still enough to see. Still enough to take the detours in.

The Bronx Brownstone is a lifestyle and design journal. It’s a chronicle of paying attention. It’s about beauty in small things, stillness in a relentless life, and the process of restoring a historic home.

In Journal, you’ll find renovation updates, restoration choices, and the realness that comes with the process. In Beauty, I’ll share the objects, ideas, and cultural touchpoints that move me—floral design, Caribbean art, good music, and good wine. And in Stillness, I’ll offer the rituals that keep me grounded: mantras, meditations, and sage. The soft things that carry us.

I want this space to feel like home: music low, candles burning, and a countertop covered in fresh-cut stems.

A place to notice life, take new paths, and let things bloom.

Welcome in.
—L