Hello

Hello. It’s been a while. And when it’s been a while, there’s always the knee-jerk reaction to make up for absences with a list of excuses. But, I promised myself that this site wouldn’t be just another unwelcome responsibility in life–so no excuses. This site’s purposes are to be my online home, a repository for stuff that makes me happy, and a love letter of sorts to my friends and family that are far away. Sometimes home is meant to be quiet, sometimes the things that make you happy are best enjoyed by yourself, and the good love letters take time.

What I have been doing lately is exploring the west side of our country, with trips to Ojai, Las Vegas, and Vancouver, and cultivating a new career (I hope) in television. Both exploration of the world around me and the world within me has been going quite well. Happiness is a regular occurrence, and overwhelming joy is just the icing on top.

One of the things that has recently brought on a bout of bliss, has been my rediscovery of my love for photography: Not only the activity of snapping pictures myself, but of experiencing the story-telling of others through visual, letter-less words. Of course, I love the work of professional photographers, but it’s the semi-anonymous photoblogs that have been the most daydream-inducing.

After a long respite, I’ve started to love Flickr again–not so much for my own posting, but for tip-toeing quietly in the sidelines of someone else’s world. I won’t gain any friends with this confession, but I actually love anonymously trolling other people’s photo streams. It’s wonderful when I do know them but, when I don’t, the photos morph from a visual catch-up on the lives of others, to an unfolding fairy tale (urban, suburban, whatever…).

Today, I wonder what “Shades of Mediocrity” is thinking when she shoots her romantically diffused photos. I look forward to visiting again and again so she can tell me more.