pharmacy flow.

travis + af

elevator go up

nevermore.

hw.

hope floats.

leaves on concrete.

USA USA USA

cloudy days.

rings on iphone

shots up.

THE james perkins

fireworks.

redrum.

a perfect moment.

jw x fireworks.

dugout.

watching batting practice.

i’ll be fine. i’ll be good.

Often a friendship comes along that makes you a significantly better person. These are the moments where time is right: opportunity is knocking. WE can answer and embrace it without any reservations or we can stare out through the peephole and pretend no one is home. If WE embrace it WE maybe better people. Opportunity has no timetable, all we can do is hope that when it knocks we are ready to hear it.

now playing…

dinner party.

padface.com

such great heights.

bye bye matty.

dougie.

wow

hungry.

give me a kiss to build a dream on.

stars shine.

dulce de leche

accessories.

where is my mind?

night scenery.

Our lives are generally created in chaos: I have never heard of a pleasurable childbirth, if you know me well you know my story is longer than my name…that’s for sure. However, with a little luck, devotion, chance, and direction that chaos can afford a wonderful world. We’re far from perfect: we can always improve, BUT we have hope. I find hope inside of me because of you. My life can be quite lonely, I can imagine the life of another without such lively souls to remember. The scenario sounds like this: checkin, board, land, unpack without any memories? Without saying a full sentence to anyone that is not staffed on the aircraft? It might seem as if our worlds are not associated, but we are all related maybe not by blood, but we are cousins of sorts. I want you all to interact: stop hiding behind the people that we think we are, our egos can be our best friends, but often in the wrong scenarios they can be our worst enemies. REACH OUT & TOUCH SOMEONE NEW BECAUSE THEY MIGHT REACH BACK.

I hope that everyone has at least one person they can confide in. Now think about how amazing you can make that person(s) feel… Imagine if you could share that with more people? But you won’t know if you don’t take the time to speak. This world lacks leaders and you can just very well be the voice to start a change. Everyone is worth saying hello to. It will never hurt to say hi. If the people I care most about knew how much I think of them they would wonder how I am able to get anything done. I am young, but deep down inside, I am a cynical old man: all I do is worry – about you, me, us this world we live in. Are we getting this right or are we wasting our most valuable resource: TIME.

The things that keep me going are simple, they aren’t lavish its mostly you. When I am thousands of miles from home, I think of all of you. Our time is so limited, but the right people can bend time and make minutes last an eternity.

Please do not be afraid to leave yourself open to chance. You just might be the stranger that does a random act of kindness to brighten up another persons day. Pay close attention to the words that your loved ones say – they are talking to us, but we most listen as passionately as the words they speak. Lastly, love with all of your heart or do not love at all.

I am thankful for health.

I am thankful for family.

I am thankful for friendships.

I am thankful for faith.

I am thankful for hope.

I am thankful for YOU.

umbrella art x soho

umbrella art x soho

more burke.

The suns out.

My friend told me it was Spring again in California, and he wasn’t fibbing at all…

rising spring

Well it is not quite yet spring here in New York City, but I feel it coming. I am getting older, it’s around the corner like the 24HR deli that we all covet. It’s rainy today, a friend called it, “A monsoon.” I’m not sure if it is or isn’t – regardless it wont stop my progress. I actually prefer the rain because it keeps all of the people who don’t really want to be out & about at home. I was never a fan of the gray area of life, I either want to love things madly or dislike them totally. I’m not really the type of person that likes to feel ambiguous about things. I love rainy days and thus I set out to have brunch today, originally with a friend, but the flu got the best of that friend. I try not to break plans unless the reason is pretty legitimate, and this reason seemed like it, I normally give people the benefit of the doubt, not because I am too nice, but because one monkey will never stop this show. My time is quite valuable because I will never get this second, day, minute, hour back. Ever. The time I take to write these words is time away from everything else in my life. The time you take to read them is also time away from the rest of your life, so for that I am thankful.

I had a great brunch.

hungry? why wait?

I sat alone at the counter with my book in hand, staring at the worlds of E.B. White, reciting them in my cerebrum… Wondering if I would have been able to cut it in their world, in this mythological New York that that that… I hope 50 years from now students will say still exist today. I’m not shy, so naturally I had conversations in passing with all around me – this is one of the forgotten beauties of New York, and that is the natural interaction that can happen: anywhere, anytime. The comfort of routine can often subconsciously hinder our natural instincts of conversing with strangers. I enjoy being alone, not because I don’t enjoy the company of others, but because if I cannot stand myself enough to have a meal by myself how can I expect another to stomach (this is when you laugh) a conversation with me?

A lot of growth can be done alone: while bouncing around the globe, I challenge you to try it. I think for me it has worked wonders. The world has the most beautiful chemistry and balance that I have yet to experience. This is not by random chance, it was fated to be this way – we have to realize that each and everyone of us is at the center of the world yet at the same time we are all so small in the grand scheme of things. Though the world revolves around me and you at the same time it revolves around all of us. I enjoy the sound of my ideas running through my head: reckless, unclear, and timid before I can properly formulate them into topics of conversation. If we are out to coffee and I do not appear interested, please be sure that if I wasn’t I would excuse myself immediately, it is no offense to you, but I’m just deep in thought. Words should not be said just for the sake of it, but because we stand by them and mean them with all of our hearts.

I never know where these posts are going, I just start to type and the words flow. I don’t necessarily start with an objective the ideas stray, but I try to centralize them and bring them all back together. I think the way to make people, ideas, life relevant is to prove them in as many ways possible because then it is meaningful to all who witness them.

lonely building x east village

wallpaper not the magazine.

when life gives you lemons.

duck duck goose.

I really want to go outside.