animals and allusions hold hands and they paint the sky with butterflies.

21. smell a flower [x]

730pm

eating bbq and discovering the joy of riddles

all good things:

1. Talk Radio with eric bogosian and alec baldwin

2. yarnz orange stripe cash/silk scarf at oaknyc

deep waters won't scare me tonight

vagabond opera

cinderella motel

beer and wine bbq dinner

accordions to test drive

hurricajuns

friday 7:30pm

attended la's first annual accordion festival. fine dining, fine accordions, and divine music. 

passing through, passing through

sometimes happy, sometimes blue,

glad that i ran into you.

California Cactus Center

Arboretum

today, yesterday, and days before yesterday:

drawing, and collecting mini cactus for my window sill garden. 

things of interest:

1. vibrant colors, patterns, and textiles of africa: African Textiles

because we must

the time is now. this moment, today, here, this room, this air

on friday

liz, linda and  i were talking about a list. 25 simple things to accomplish, for my 25 years of age.

a list of simple 25's

1. bake a cake

2. write a friend a handwritten letter

3. start cycling

4. make a friend

5. raise a plant [x]

6. volunteer

7. donate

8. discover new music and introduce it to a friend

9. try food you've never tried.

10. memorize a poem you really love

11. handcraft a present

12. read a comic book

13. make cookies for someone

14. read a science related book

15. frame a picture you  photographed and give it to a friend.

16. go to the beach and watch the sunset.

17. buy a painting you like

18. go to death valley or revisit the grand canyon

19. learn to play moon river on the piano

20. have a portrait drawn

21. smell a flower

22. watch a classic film

23. go to a beach you've never been to

24. read a children's book

25. buy fresh flowers and read about its origin

film documentaries of interest:

little peace of mine,  

my kid could paint that

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned eye

handsome adornments:

organic wooden jewelry by heather kosch. a particular fondness for her necklaces.

because the truth has a way of beginning an end

11am today:

Lacma with tom and andrew to view the the german expressionist paintings, bauhaus, & african art with slight detour into abstract modern. The african art was a favorite, and i got to see a lovely rothko which i always feel so much affection for. 

630pm friday:

Dinner with liz and linda at la grande orange cafe in pasadena. Reprise at Laemmle's to follow.

9pm saturday:

Finished Lance Armstrong's "It's Not About the Bike. My Journey Back to Life."

Things of Interest:

1. Books: "Buying in: The Secret Dialogue Between What we Buy and Who We Are."

2. Photographer Nicholas Nixon and his Brown Series 

to him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.

there is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.

that's it for now

it'll probably be different later

like how things always are

the coin don't have no say, it's just you.

Rinko Kawauchi.  

love is all that i can give you.

they cannot taint you in my eyes

Ryan McGinley. Enamored.

this is the way

you're going to miss me.