If you are reading this page with the intention of learning precisely who I am, let me say it now: you will be disappointed.

I am not about to give you an accurate description of my personality, my political or religious views, my thoughts on the meaning of life (in fact, as of this writing I do not think there is one), or of what I do.

I have attempted to write an “About” page numerous times in the past, and every single time, I have come back to my self-description, read it through once more, and wondered: what the hell was I thinking? And don’t get me wrong. The resulting question hasn’t been provoked by the realization that my words lack complete originality, or that they represent nothing more, but yet another cliché description. It has instead been provoked by the realization that I was no longer the person I had described.

The truth is, being alive – yes, that at least I can say I am, to the best of my knowledge – I am not a static image, ready to be framed. Instead, I am a project in progress. I am an individual who changes as she types those very sentences you are reading at the present instant. What I am before the beginning of any one phrase will rarely be the same as what I’ll be at the end of it.

And how could it otherwise be? When thoughts are constantly flowing in and out of my mind, when reflections are constantly transformed, and when observations are constantly deriving new conclusions with every single breath of mine? As a living being, I grow both outwardly and inwardly, learning and forgetting, being hurt and being healed, endlessly reconsidering my existence, my ideas, my actions, as well as my vague understanding of “self”.

I cannot tell you who I am, because I, myself, do not know who I am. My life is in motion, and the ending will be unknown until the last picture of it is taken.

In the meantime, this blog, Bohemian Transcendence, is nothing more and nothing less than an honest documentation of my journey, to which I invite you to participate and to share with me.

PS: for the sake of good manners, I will not leave you completely empty-handed. My name is Claudie, a female in her early twenties of Bulgarian and French origins, who currently alternates her location between New York and California every couple of weeks who currently lives in San Francisco, CA.