Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Friday, November 16, 2007
Dear 16 year old me:
I just wanted to send a message back to you. Your life will not always be easy. Far from it.
Sometimes, you will second guess yourself. I ask you not to do that. I know that you will find life full of confusion. There are so many ways it can go. You will think through them all.
In the next few years, you will undergo big changes. Change doesn't stop. Don't be afraid of change.
A lot of times, you will just sit in your room and do nothing. Go out. See the world.
Don't be afraid of drinking. It can be your friend. Just don't overdo it.
Get the door for little old ladies. Be nice to old people and listen to their stories.
Never forget who you are. You will sometimes. I am asking you to remember who you are. You will get it when you are me.
Boy, that doesn't all sound so good, huh? Well, things turn out OK. Don't you worry.
You never cut your hair. You sold out at a few jobs, but now you do what you want. You will achieve every single dream that you have. You have big dreams. You will live all of them. I promise you.
Just get through high school. You can make it. Life can be amazing if you let it be amazing.
I love you.
Photo - S
Words - S
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Cities from the sky, clouds parting to reveal serpentine roads that lead to every place you want to go. Closer to the ground, wheels lower from mechanical bird. You can see buildings as dots, then those dots become cars and maybe people in the cars. They all are going somewhere important. You just want to land.
Photo - N
Words - S
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Friday, November 09, 2007
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Halloween stuff is now 75% off.
If you can still find it.
Sometimes, people stalk that stuff. They stake it out.
If I had a time machine, I'd buy a 75% off costume and go back to a party and have the best costume there.
Statements like that are the reason why I am not allowed to have a time machine. Instead of seeing history or going back to kill Hitler, I would want a cheap Chewbacca costume.
Photo - N
Words - S
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
This is Sam's dad.
His name is Sam, too.
The other day, he said to Sam, you are more successful than I ever have been.
The thing is, all Sam's life, he felt he would never live up to the amazing example his father had shown to him or live the life of his father.
But to his dad, Sam had done more. He'd be around the world, made art, comic books and clothes, so much more.
It was an eye opening statement.
Photo - S
Words - S
Monday, November 05, 2007
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Food that talks has always freaked me out.
My grandfather took me to Peace Valley Orchards one day and there was a big barrel full of apples.
There was a sign that said "I'm delicious. Eat me."
Everyone else grabbed a free apple. I sat on the ground and almost cried.
These apples could talk. Who were we to eat them?
Man, I was a weird kid.
Photo - S
Words - S
When I was young, we fished at Brush Creek. One day, I caught the biggest fish I had ever seen. It looked like a trout, but had teeth. We found out they had stocked these for a fishing contest and we had to give them back. It was a bofin, which is a prehistoric looking fish. They don't taste very good. They're actually quite bitter. I was so happy to catch a prehistoric era scary looking fish. I'm still pretty happy about it.
Photo - S
Words - S
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Friday, November 02, 2007
When the zombie invasion apocalypse global warming zero population war comes, we will commandeer these guns. We will use them to battle. Our forefathers left us them to kill Commies and zombies.
When I was a kid, I always prayed that Red Dawn would be real and I could kill some Godless Commies.
Photo - S
Words - S
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