I never knew how much I love LA until I moved away. I miss meeting the sun each morning, the way that rich areas can turn into a melting pot of poverty in a split second, and driving my baby down streets of Hollywood palm trees. I think I will love San Francisco one day too, but on my own. But LA will always be home.
Some shots I took on a metro trip with Allison:
far away..
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I am swimming in a sea of hopes and expectations. Swimming and no longer drowning because I am focused on the prize. Soon, I will have my cake and eat it too.
Home, April 2008
I sit before this lake awaiting for some swans to come and greet me. Am I an the ugly duckling who will soon turn into a beautiful swan?
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when will i learn how to get beyond myself? how do I frame a different “peace” of mind?
Drifting in the April wind of uncertainty. I wish I could be as carefree as her. Freedom, I’m afraid, is of too chaotic a nature for me.
Black Friar’s Bridge. London, Summer 2007
Still, I wait for their calls in a drunken stupor. Will I recite Robert Frost’s The Road Less Traveled when I am sixty-four? For now, I will just listen to the Beatles and have a Smirnoff or two with April. Smirnoff twist please!
St. Mary’s Church, on the grounds where Shakespeare is buried. Stratford Upon Avon, Summer 2007
At Starbucks. Damien Rice’s “Blower’s Daughter” comes on. I fixate on the whispered, “til I find someone new.” Will there always be a part of our minds that will focus on a distant past? I need to sleep.
San Francisco, CA Castro Starbucks 2006
In the room the women come and go. Speaking of Michaelangelo.
Reality is overrated.
Tate Modern, Summer 2007
Consume or be consumed. The money will be donated to women and children with lez every time you (LEZ)out.
nameless tunnel. London, Summer 2007
You, the consumer, can take your purchase to the power of (LEZ) simply by eating(out). Thus the proposition: (YOU)LEZ. Be embraced, take your own fine self to the power of (LEZ). What better way to become a good-eating samaritan?!
Now all we need is Bono and the corporate world…
