You ask, and I can't believe its June - graduation time for the shooting stars in Napa Valley A-1 section lede photos makes the news, the only news in this town. But not my beloved Guatemala. I'm still working on those edits but will be posting in the photo album section on the left that way so you will see! being back in napa has only made me want to go back for more because the place full of life, of endless color and spontenaity as are the chicken buses and Catholic processions. There are so many stories that connect us to mexico and central america but everyone is focused in iraq while my head spins because I know there's something in the works down south thats gone amiss and forgotten. just a hunch.
I just watched the awful notes of a scandal with cate blanchett whom i like (and they played a siouxsie and the banshees song can you believe along with showing an old album....ah what is it...kaleidoscope!! because I have it, if not all). there was a line somewhere in the movie that said "mind the gap". it struck me because what it meant is that hazy middle between what you see yourself wanting to be or what it is in reality. The gap is the hazy middle that says pay attention to the gap because the gap is just as important as my dreams and reality. Like my constant obsession for the big break in my career or that I live in Napa and I could try to love it maybe by trying every 300-something wineries that are here. Ouch. A confession. I need a little spice in my life (for certain my boyfriend and dog are the real spices) and little news in the groove and I just hope those Guate stories find a home so I can go back for more....so that maybe someday I'll be surfing again and not dreaming so much of something better. There's not a perfect place in the world, I realize its more a state of mind and, for me, there's no place better than when I'm shooting an amazing story or surfing the waves of a distant storm.
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