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from the head
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0.5
2022-02-20
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from the head - nice to meet you
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from the head - nice to meet you
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from the head - nice to meet you
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from the head - nice to meet you
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from the head - nice to meet you
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from the head - nice to meet you
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from the head - nice to meet you
https://www.piperjoycurda.com/fromthehead/lettinggo
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0.5
2020-07-27
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from the head - when is it time to let go? - me & matt
matt is my car's name because he is very white
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from the head - when is it time to let go? - grand teton national park
hidden falls
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from the head - when is it time to let go? - grand teton national park
inspiration point // strangers that would become friends
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from the head - when is it time to let go? - mount rainier national park
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from the head - when is it time to let go? - the trail of ten falls
oregon
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from the head - when is it time to let go? - grand teton national park
jenny lake
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from the head - when is it time to let go?
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from the head - when is it time to let go? - sun valley, idaho
bald mountain trail
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from the head - when is it time to let go?
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from the head - when is it time to let go? - matt & mount rainier
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from the head - when is it time to let go? - me & mount rainier
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from the head - when is it time to let go? - bellevue, idaho
a moment of true solitude
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from the head - when is it time to let go? - letting go
(via self timer)
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2019-11-15
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2019-08-22
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from the head - an ode to grief
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from the head - an ode to grief
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from the head - an ode to grief
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from the head - an ode to grief
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from the head - work in progress
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from the head - work in progress
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from the head - work in progress
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from the head - work in progress
https://www.piperjoycurda.com/fromthehead/yearbook/one
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0.5
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from the head - yearbook one - a cast of really great butts
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from the head - yearbook one - sophie
this is sophie and she is mine and I have vowed to protect her at al costs
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from the head - yearbook one - hang up & hang out
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from the head - yearbook one - snow fun
not sure why they all look so deeply depressed here but issa vibe
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from the head - yearbook one - sean
we love sean and sean loves snow.
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from the head - yearbook one - peanut (& savannah)
peanut was the real star of the entire production.
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from the head - yearbook one - trailer treasure
because 'trailer trash' just doesn't apply here
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from the head - yearbook one - sean again
we still love sean.
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from the head - yearbook one - anna
our fearless leader
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from the head - yearbook one - antelope island
these are not antelope.
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from the head - yearbook one - moses
cast-wide nickname: daddy
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from the head - yearbook one - kara
she is extra and wonderful and probably one of the most beautiful people I know.
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from the head - yearbook one - beach day
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from the head - yearbook one - sophie again
I think I am in love with sophie, honestly
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from the head - yearbook one - mike
if you can make mike laugh out loud, that's it. you've peaked in life.
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from the head - yearbook one - high school musical 4
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from the head - yearbook one - savannah
our mom, and a bright ray of aesthetic sunshine.
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from the head - yearbook one - karan
one of the nicest people you will ever meet in your whole life (and not 'nice' in the boring, nondescript way. nice in the way that it is impossible that someone could be so kind and lovely)
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from the head - yearbook one - a real life family
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from the head - yearbook one - sophie AGAIN
it's official, I'm in love with her
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from the head - yearbook one - beach day!!!
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from the head - yearbook one - attitude
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from the head - yearbook one - youth & consequences
our show in a single picture.
https://www.piperjoycurda.com/fromthehead/westcoastbestcoast
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0.5
2017-08-07
https://www.piperjoycurda.com/fromthehead/aprilfifteenth
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0.5
2017-07-20
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from the head - april fifteenth
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from the head - april fifteenth
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from the head - april fifteenth
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from the head - april fifteenth
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from the head - april fifteenth
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from the head - april fifteenth
https://www.piperjoycurda.com/fromthehead/totallybaked
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0.5
2017-06-12
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from the head - totally baked
Hello? Chopped? It's me, Piper.
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from the head - totally baked
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0.5
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from the head - freshmeat wisdom
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from the head - freshmeat wisdom
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from the head - freshmeat wisdom
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from the head - freshmeat wisdom
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from the head - freshmeat wisdom
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from the head - freshmeat wisdom
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from the head - I have no clue what I am doing
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from the head - I have no clue what I am doing
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from the head - I have no clue what I am doing
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from the head - I have no clue what I am doing
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from the lens - 12/4/16
on the right: #coolroomie on the left: #futureroomie in the middle: blessed with the best
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from the lens - 12/4/16
on the right: #coolroomie on the left: #futureroomie in the middle: blessed with the best
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from the lens - 4/15/17
one of my favorite days of freshman year. we had a three day Easter weekend, and some of my closest friends and I planned out an elaborate brunch from scratch and set up camp in the basement of our dorm building. we blasted music at an obscene volume, did not speak of homework or class one single time, and we felt domestic as heck. nine months ago, I was terrified of going to college for fear of not meeting people that I could do life with. on this day, sitting around that table, I was overwhelmed with gratitude. I looked at the faces of each of these people and knew that I could trust them with my heart and my secrets and my life. but I didn't tell them that, so let's keep that between us.
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YOU DUN DID IT. Nice job.
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from the lens - 7/29/16
santorini, greece oia 8:30 pm sunsets, to me, have always been the best reminder of the beauty of God's creation. we get so used to our everyday surroundings that the beauty of things like ocean waves and the color of someone's eyes become mundane and normal when they are meant to be appreciated and inspiring. this was at the tip of the island atop some ruins on santorini in greece. it was our first night in greece and we had battled our way through a seemingly endless sea of people to make it to this point. amid the selfie sticks and honeymooners we found an empty spot. we sat. there was one thing almost more beautiful than the sunset itself: the people watching it.
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from the lens - 4/15/17
wheaton, il. unidentified parking structure 6:15pm my favorite day of freshman year. summer vibes & full hearts. spent with forever people.
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from the lens - 4/15/17
wheaton, il. unidentified parking structure 6:15pm my favorite day of freshman year. summer vibes & full hearts. spent with forever people.
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from the lens - 4/15/17
wheaton, il. unidentified parking structure 6:21pm my favorite day of freshman year. summer vibes & full hearts. spent with forever people.
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from the lens - 10/15/16
chicago, il. metra - green line 7:31 pm because, despite everything, i suppose we were beautiful once.
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from the lens - 3/7/17
san francisco, ca golden gate bridge 1:22 pm this picture was taken on my film camera during a spring break trip to San Francisco. someone who wasn't quite familiar with the mechanics of a film camera and the element of focus took it. at first, I thought it was quite possibly the worst picture anyone could have taken. but I've grown to like it. not only do I appreciate the person who took it quite a lot, but I appreciate the uniqueness of the photo. we like to think that there are sure, concrete things to focus on in life. but often times, the things we really need to focus on are something out of the ordinary or unexpected. that could be a stretch, but it's a pretty cool photo nonetheless.
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from the lens - 4/9/17
wheaton, il gold star chapel 9:48 pm I go to a small, private, Christian college. in a place where you are surrounded by people with the same/very similar beliefs as you and you are going to classes like Old Testament and Christian Thought, it can be easy to fall into a pattern of lukewarm faith. it can be easy to neglect simple things like prayer when your professors pray at the beginning of every class. when I was at the peak of distress and anxiety during my freshman year, I found solace in a small chapel hidden in the hallway of our commons building. I sat in the little pews and just breathed and talked to God. there's a table in the middle of the room littered with post-its and note cards with all kinds of prayer requests scribbled on them. going through other people's grievances and stresses and adding to them with my own reminded me that I am not alone. it reminded me that though we all fight our own battles, we all serve a great King.
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from the lens - 7/14/17
mill valley, ca. muir woods national park 4:06 pm some of my favorite things in this world are my family and smiling. put those two together, and you could have the power to break my heart in the best way.
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from the lens - 07/18/17
seattle, washington columbia center 7:44 pm I think it's okay to call someone the love of your life, even if you're not 100 percent certain that they will truly be your love for the rest of your life. because at some point or another, you did. and right now, I do. no one can tell the future, but your heart doesn't lie. and mine isn't lying when it looks and you and knows you are the love of my life.
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from the lens - 7/17/17
seattle, wa. denny blaine park 8:37 pm no matter where you are, no matter your age, no matter what you're going through--always make time to catch a sunset. they are one of life's only eternally beautiful things.
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from the lens - 7/18/17
seattle, wa. pike place public market 4:04 pm everyone deserves to receive flowers, even if they're from yourself. treat yourself today.
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from the lens - 05/19/17
los angeles, ca red lobster 4:02pm I believe there is nothing scarier than watching your siblings grow up. because no matter how many inches they grow or how many boys ask for their number or how much makeup they begin to wear, in your mind you will always see the terribly tiny child hobbling around the house with sticky fingers and wild curls sprouting from her head. you will always remember her in her high chair with an impossible amount of food smeared on her face. and while she still may end up with food on her face at the end of a meal, she is now aware of how silly it looks. and now she wipes it away on her own, just like that sweet innocence that once covered her entire being. it's scary, watching your siblings grow up. but it is less scary knowing that at the end of the day--whether they are nine or thirteen or twenty-three years old--they will still crawl into bed with you and cuddle away all the fears and worries of watching someone you love so very much become their own person.
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from the lens - 07/1/17
san antonio, texas local coffee 5:17pm I like my coffee black and he likes his with less coffee and more cream. I think that is a good representation of who we are. he is impossibly sweet and appreciates things in the world that are lighter and though his coffee is overflowing with sugar, that is the way that he loves. I have a flair for the bitter side of life. I am more pessimistic and, truthfully, a bit cynical. I don't like much cream because I like to appreciate the flavor and depth of the coffee, but that is the way I love. and while I can get lost in the depths of darker things in life, he pulls me back with his sugary, albeit sappy, way of bringing me out of myself and into the light. I like my coffee black and he likes his with less coffee and more cream, and that is the way we love.
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from the lens - 1/1/18
big bear, california big bear lake 6:55 pm two roomates, two worlds colliding, one sunset. we tend to compartmentalize certain friends from particular parts of our lives, and it is generally terrifying when those little compartments leak into one another. it is much easier, however, when it comes to two people you would go to the ends of the earth for. because now they are no longer on opposite ends and when you go to the end of the earth for one, the other is there waiting.
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from the lens - 9/8/18
chicago, il adler planetarium 6:38 am a night [into a morning] of unadulterated impulse and careless spontaneity during a season i thought was void of the strain of joy this moment brought. a forever type of memory.
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from the lens - 10/10/18
lombard, illinois terrace view park 6:45 am taken three days after the worst phone call of my life. i had lost the ability to sleep (and to eat and to feel) and often found myself wide-eyed in disquietude at the same time that the sun had the privilege of doing what i couldn’t—awaking from a slumber. on this third morning, upon realizing i would again be greeted by this star in what now felt like mockery, i decided i might as well make the most of it. i opened google maps, searched ‘parks,’ and liked the sound of this one. i sat on a lone bench and i scribbled in a leather notebook and i felt everything at once. three more times in the next six months, in my lowest moments, i would return to this park, to that bench. for another sunrise or in the snow or in the middle of the night. one evening in february, after yet another conversation that left me feeling broken, i laid on that bench for two hours in thirty-degree weather and froze and wept. that park never made me feel better. it never fixed things. but it allowed me to feel. it even allowed me to break. and, sometimes, that was what i needed.
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from the lens - 4/25/19
wheaton, il mccully stadium 9:25 pm nearing the end of my senior year of college, i began to take stock of what had been the most difficult academic year of my life for a myriad of reasons beyond the academics. but with a repeatedly torn and patched up heart, weary eyes, and a weathered soul—i was and still am able to confidently say it was the best damned year of my life. and most of that was because of these people.
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from the lens - 5/14/19
wheaton, il the howard house 3:31 pm saying a smoky farewell to a window that witnessed a lot of firsts.
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from the lens - 5/23/19
munich, germany st. peter’s church 4:58 pm before we ever knew how remotely important we’d be to one another. they are my favorite story, my safest spaces, my home.
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from the lens - 6/4/21
harrisburg, nc mimi’s birthday 6:21 pm moments & people i will treasure until the end of time, regardless of whether or not those memories will remain just that—perhaps we will only exist in the past now, but what a sticky and sweet time it was, and still could have been…
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from the lens - 8/27/21
chicago, il the corn cobs 5:52 pm to look to the sky and know you are home is a beautiful thing.
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from the lens - 5/30/21
wilmette, il my childhood home 5:48 pm these gates could never keep anything out, even when i was a kid. it was rickety and shedding paint and flimsily enclosed our modest backyard all the years i lived there. we were instructed to keep it closed lest our elderly dog, shakespeare, found a moment to escape. but had anything more looming than a friendly midwestern neighbor or small playdate companion approached said gate, no protection would it have provided. it just sat there, old, tired, and it watched. it watched us do art projects next to the basketball hoop we never used. it watched us think we were einstein-level geniuses the first time we decided to put the sprinkler on the trampoline and jump around in bathing suits. it watched us say goodbye to our father when he left for afghanistan. it watched us grow. these gates could never keep anything out, but it keeps in so much more. these gates hold moments no pristine, freshly-painted, stable gate could. these gates hold the skinned knees and red cheeks and messy hair that we can never get back. these gates hold our childhood.
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from the lens - 6/13/21
garfield park, chicago garfield park conservatory 1:47 pm one of the most dazzling qualities of the human spirit is that we can still find moments to dance even in the throes of heartbreak
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from the lens - 9/27/20
goleta, ca ellwood beach 6:07 pm find someone you love and wrap them up in your warmth. that is love.
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from the lens - 8/30/20
rancho santa fe, ca del mar sunset hot air balloon ride 7:14 pm i could spend time coming up with a pretty string of words to caption this, but i’m too consumed with the fact that it might be one of the best pictures i’ve ever taken. that is all.
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from the lens - 2/22/21
polebridge, mt glacier national park 3:23 pm a childlike glimmer of days gone past, greeting you with a kind albeit crooked smile, wishing you safe travels.
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from the lens - 12/13/20
death valley national park, ca bad water basin salt flats 4:49 pm everyone says their mother is their hero, but i prefer to think of mine as a hero. she’s mine, but she should be everyone else’s too. who else do i know that has raised five children with carefully fostered love in their hearts and fire in their eyes and passion in their souls? who else do i know that can defend her dissertation and ascertain her doctorate in the eighth month of pregnancy with her second child? who else do i know that has given up everything so her family can have anything? i’m sure there’s countless others who have accomplished maybe the same or maybe similar things. but none of those people are my mom. and my mom is a hero.
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from the lens - 1/10/21
malibu, ca point dume 4:42 pm everywhere i go, i manage to find a blonde muse with a hard shell, tender heart, and an utter detestation of having their picture taken.
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from the lens - 12/29/20
santa clarita, ca vasquez rocks 7:21 am i sit and stare at images of them, and i can’t find the words. i don’t know how to express the insurmountable love i have for them. i don’t know how to express the terror i always hold right beneath my sternum that something could happen to them and i would be powerless to stop it. i don’t know how to express that if happiness was held in my veins i would cut myself open and eternally bleed just so they would never be sad again. i don’t know how to express the waves of sadness that bowl me over every time they turn another year older, waves which will undoubtedly turn into tsunamis as time goes on. i sit and stare at images of them, and i think this must be what mothers feel when they lay eyes on their babies. and it is the closest i’ve been to understanding what God must feel when He looks at His children.
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from the lens - 12/14/20
death valley national park, ca mesquite flat sand dunes 3:58 pm two of the wisest people i know are my mother and my youngest sister. perhaps the most sage wisdom comes not from those who have lived the most, but those who have sat back and watched others live.
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from the lens - 8/11/20
three rivers, ca sequoia national park 6:11 pm you’re never too old to climb a tree. you might be too small though.
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from the lens - 6/27/20
jackson, wy grand teton national park - inspiration point 3:26 pm over the years, i developed what i thought to be a healthy fear of strangers. smile politely, keep your head down. lie when they ask you what you do for a living. hold you cards close to the chest. nod, agree, move along. alternatively, i found, opening yourself up can perhaps be the antithesis to protecting yourself, but it can also be the gateway to a more colorful world, filled with foreigners to your life that become friends found on a hiking trail. sometimes, strangers hold the key to a bigger and more fantastical world. all you have to do is ask if one of them will take your picture for you.
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from the lens - 3/18/20
paris, france charles de gaulle airport 10:02 am to this day, the best story i have is the answer to ‘where were you when covid hit?’, because the answer is in the air. entering hour 13 of 14 on a flight to paris where i was meeting friends who would be on planes back to the states by the time i landed. i wept thrice in this airport.
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from the lens - 6/8/21
chicago, il lincoln park - lake shore drive bike trail 7:02 pm in sixth-grade latin class, we learned the phrase urbs in horto, meaning ‘city in a garden,’ which was dubbed chicago’s official city slogan when it was incorporated in 1837. since then, i always take special notice of bits of a city that look as if it could spend its weekends moonlighting in a garden. there is a definite unique beauty to cities, but there is also oftentimes a lack of warmth, sweetness, and depth. horticultural details that lurk in sidewalk cracks or manage to snake their way along freeways remind me that no matter how cold or callous a place can be, there is always room for new growth.
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from the lens - 3/13/20
london, england notting hill 2:06 pm places are important to me. i file Places I’ve Been under People I’ve Been There With. and as the People files have, at times, grown dusty and abandoned (whether or not this was against my will), the Places files remain pristine and glowing with memories that may have gotten old, but feelings that are as fresh as the day they were born. i’ve been to notting hill twice. but the time i went with someone who i knew would show me her tenderness unconditionally, unquestionably for the rest of my life, was the only time that mattered. hold on to the good Places, and the good People, and let go of those that no longer serve you. i’m still working on that.
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