ANYA GEIST
On Ambition and its Pitfalls
As a little kid, I dreamt up intricate stories about families and friends and siblings, all loosely inspired by my own friends and cousins. These made-up kids lived in giant blue mansions with 22 floors and dumbwaiters that served as alternative methods of transportation — I barely knew what a dumbwaiter, a pulley to carry food from one floor to another, was. Others had cute little cottages and grew their own fruits and vegetables, nestled in the midst of the vast Maine forest — why Maine, I have no idea — or lived instead in some Star Wars inspired world, with space travel, fancy technology and intergalactic schools.
April 25, 2025
