it's all figured out

DSCN7504_1, originally uploaded by lilylord.

Came home from work Saturday - came across these guys with a film camera taking pics of "the corner". I told them my project of taking pictures of tourists on the corner because of the amount of humans that stop and pose any given day where I live. "You know we're not tourists, right" one asked.

Ben and I went out to a seeing-you-off dinner with our friends Franklin and Bree, who are leaving for Chicago (he just finished his P.H.D. in philosophy). I was talking about how interesting it is to get older and the collection of experiences and changing perspectives that invarably happen. He spoke about that strange uncertainty and lack of self confidence that happened to him when he was in college and that now upon teaching those young people that the dorky cockiness that he had been sold as cool in those social circles is, in his view kind of empty. And that if he knew that information then, he'd have been a lot less worried about life in general.

Yeah you aren't tourists, but it's a long road ahead to becoming auteurs.