I want a Face (...in a girl)

So a lot of people like to read magazines like People and US. I flipped through one of my mom's People while I was in Yosemite with my family. I guess you can say I have a healthy disgust for those magazines now. Here's a little excerpt from something I wrote that night.

Every woman is so pretty and so close to perfect. I feel myself looking at them and wanting someone like them and that makes me sad. My ego leads me to want visual perfection in a woman. Looking at that magazine makes me sad. Sad because those women feel the need to do that, sad because many of them are prettier before the work, sad because everyone compares themselves to them, sad because people outside of that business have a lot of work done too, sad because I attach myself to pretty faces in Hollywood when they are simply not what they seem. I want a face to attach to that I know well, that I know where it came from and what it wants to be. I want a face that is happy with any uniqueness it may have, that is so natural that make up only enhances beauty, but does not add it and is not necessary. I want a face that is not the most attractive part of the person.

Happy Isles

changes

So it's always happening. Most of the time it's slow and small and we don't notice. Then every once in a while it's real big and real quick and knocks us over. Right now it's hard. I'm on my own though. That's new. Good things will come from it. I believe they will.

I went backpacking in Yosemite with my cousin a couple weeks ago. That place is good for me.

The Dominican

Hi. First off, I just wanted to put up some pictures. Second off, I had the opportunity to go to the Domican Republic last summer. Here are my favorite pictures from it. The first one is of my friend Ramon. He told me that I was welcome to return whenever I wanted, and that he would always be there. There's more great stuff about him, but for now here's what he looks like.

Ramon

Little Boy

Tiendas

Cinco Amigos (?)

Startin' Fresh!

So I'm currently in the middle of two books. First, West of Jesus by Steven Kotler and second, Franne and Zoe by J.D. Salinger. When I read a well-written book by a great author it makes me want to write something. To go along with that, I love photography and like the idea of being able to post my favorite pictures, whether I shot them or not. So here is a place where I get to write anything that might come to mind and post any photo that I might enjoy, and do them both whenever I want. Sounds good to me.