our last hope of ending this country's reputation as the assholes of the universe

happy week!

so long, sweet summer.

I guess it's September already, and even though I'm not quite sure how that happened, I think I'm okay with it. 

Maybe fall is time for something different. New internship, new course schedule, fashionweek, Entourage, an amazing concert lineup, new things to look forward to. There will be things ahead that will be hard, and there are things that I cannot yet see that will surprise me. And I'll take all of it and move forward because what other choice do we have?

Due to my two month summer hiatus, here is a photographic log of the end of Summer 2008 set to a backdrop of Wet Hot American Summer, turkey burgers, warm nights, Delta Spirit, and two dollar bottles of wine from Trader Joe's.

Sawdust Art Festival

Sawdust Art Festival in Laguna Beach

Balboa 

Newport

feast

typical summer dinner

bbq

kickin it @ the beach house in newport with people i love

Natalie @ The Gold Room

Josh James @ Hotel Cafe

Manhattan Beach music

Backyard party, 8/08

Pool party

Al eating omelettes 

Granite Hot Springs

GTNP

Josh Ritter @ Grand Targhee Music Fest

Hillary and Charlotte

Josh and Molly

Jenny Lake

Hiking

Kat, Molly, Charlotte

Sunset from the back porch

Cookin hot dogs in the back yard

"The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates."

Sometimes, we are just not meant to understand. 

"Fiction-writing's lonely in a way most people misunderstand. It's yourself you have to be estranged from, really, to work."

David Foster Wallace

1962-2008

Rest in peace.

"fear is not the natural state of civilized people" - aung san suu kyi

Throughout the past few weeks, it has become blatantly obvious that we have become afraid and consequently we have become defensive. When you focus on the negative you stop thinking rationally, and that is so incredibly dangerous - especially now. I cannot cannot cannot express enough: this is not a campaign of fear. It is a campaign of hope. 

We cannot know the outcome, and we cannot know that putting our whole hearts into this situation will leave them unbroken. We cannot even know that the decisions and outcomes will be the right ones. But we can hope that what we are doing, whatever it is, will be enough. This is why you have to do something.

We can open our minds and share with others what we know. We can listen and learn and grow. Volunteer. Speak louder and stand up just a little bit taller. All based upon a foundation in which we believe. Consequently, hope remains and will prevail. 

Really, that is all he is asking us to do. Because of him, many have changed, and will continue to change those around them in hopes of evolution, revolution, inspiration and growth. He is asking you not only to hope, but to believe. And to do all that you can in order to show it, especially now when so many people are taking the defensive route and essentially giving up. 

Nothing is over. We have a long way to go and it will be scary and beautiful and completely insane. So he is asking you, as an individual, to give a shit. The simplicity of knowing that because of this, all we truly need to do is act upon the hope we have that tomorrow will be better, makes this all just a little bit less horrifying. Regardless of the outcome, do not go down defeated with your tail between your legs. Do not go down. Fight. Support. Hide your fearful cynicism with proactive competition. Unfaltering in your support for the one who has changed the world through supporting you.

I am not saying think like me, think like him, any.any.any of that. I am simply saying think. 

Think for yourself, think for others, think for today and tomorrow and ten years from now.

Think, react, and for god's sake, exercise your rights as a US citizen. 

But above all things, please: Think.

v.o.t.e

v.o.l.u.n.t.e.e.r

so if we get swallowed by a black hole today...

... none of us will even notice because it will only take 1/20 of a second.



see you guys on thursday!

this is pretty cool.

hi, i'm back.



"I will never forget that the only reason I'm standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky. Stood up when it was hard. Stood up when it wasn't popular. And because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up. And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up. And standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to change the world." - Barack Obama

guys - no matter what you believe in, it's really cool to give a shit. don't ever forget that.


loves all & goodnight.