"Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in."

--Sam Mendes's American Beauty

working on becoming better at the things i like: a better traveler, a better photographer, a better cook, a better writer, a better thinker.

help me?

[family photos are friends/family only, but i let a few slip here and there]

"The photograph has reversed the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."

--Marshall McLuhan, 1964