Snapshots from California

I'm having an amazing time here in sunny and then rainy and then partially cloudy and then sunny again Cali-FOR-NIA. Oh, the sweet nectar of fresh guacamole on a burrito! Oh the laughter and ease that comes with the oldest, dearest friends! Oh the funny and sweaty head of my five year old brother! It's been quite a trip so far--filled with a lot of emotion, inspiration, heartache, laughter, and wonder. I just got off the phone with Graham and declared: I don't want to come back to New York! This is after trelling so many people how great New York is--how much I feel I am coming into my own there. It's just that I love the people HERE. I had forgotten how great it was just to be in a room full of people you know and who know you. I miss it. I also am just afresh from thelargest love fest I have attended in years, otherwise known as the WEDDING OF ROB & ANDROMEDA. Weddings are mixed bags, as so many people know--bringing up the shizzle like little else. This one was no different, BUT of course, the ceremony happens, and it was just SO FRIGGN' BEAUTIFUL. We worried over rain, but the clouds parted for the ceremony, and that was only the beginning. When the otherwise quiet groom, speaks directly to your friend of 25 years, and opens up with the the line: You are the love of my life, and then begins to cry, you feel your heart leap to the bars of its cage and as far as KEEPING IT TOGETHER, you DON'T HAVE A CHANCE. The crowd weeps for a reason. It is a beautiful moment, not only for its declaration, but for the vulnerability and the moment of suddenly KNOWING this man for the first time.

There's just so much to tell and to feel about this week. I am blown away by how much my brother and sister have grown in the last five months. I am blown away by how grown up I feel being here, how strong, how much the last 10 months have changed me for the better. I'm on to something and I know it. This is a good time of my life and I want to savor it. What follows are snapshots to give you a taste of the last five days. They are wonderful, wonderful days filled with friends, family, my old school at night and pretty girls in violet dresses:







More soon, I promise!