Ultra Music Festival
The chaos that was Ultra. No, I did not attend. Yes, I was close enough to capture the debauchery my first weekend living in downtown. 🙊🙉🙈
Category: Society’s Paces
Midnight Mission, DTLA
Meeting Melvin
Date: 1.21.15 I decided to take a second walk tonight. Walking is my latest happy place. On my way home from Coffee Bean, I had a lot on my mind and glimpsed (about halfway between Coffee Bean and my apartment) a shadow sitting upright in the corner of a business’s driveway. I walked toward what… Read More Meeting Melvin
My Other Neighbors
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. -Albert Schweitzer Homelessness kills me. Living in LA has magnified how pervasive the problem really is. I live… Read More My Other Neighbors
Seeing Rainbows
Dedicated to All My Loves My life has been nothing short of interesting. Really, from the beginning. Of course, I didn’t know that from the beginning, especially when I was solely focused on surviving what I thought was a tormented youth (I had it so good). My mom’s family, in particular, provided so many of… Read More Seeing Rainbows
The Price of Plastic
This article about plastic surgery in Brazil surfaced on my Facebook feed (I ❤ NPR): http://apps.npr.org/lookatthis/posts/plastic/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2036 Reading it, I felt immediately enraged. Being from Miami, no one has to tell me the price women (and even girls) are willing to pay to “perfect” themselves. Miami is a plastic surgery Mecca. Years ago, a student of… Read More The Price of Plastic
AIDS Walk LA, 2014
(Read “Jon’s Story” for more perspective on today’s thoughts) Somehow, I didn’t have an emotional breakdown at any point in the 10k journey today though I came close. Once as we started and again as we got to where someone was screaming “6 more blocks”, there were tears. Somehow, I forcibly sucked them back into… Read More AIDS Walk LA, 2014
