A Naturalized Progression

Traveling makes you open to new experiences.

Mark Twain loved to travel and once wrote, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” Source Source 2

Children's books always speak the truth. Sometimes the cloud clear, and the sun peeks through just about the time your depression seems like it's going to choke you.

New York City, 1975

I love me some Tilly.

Noir Jennifer Tilly

Smoking

I had my first cigarette in high school. Some gay guy taught me how to do it.

Just because you have it, doesn’t mean you have to spend it.

The surface

I seem ok, but I'm not ok at all.

Damn fortune cookies

Since when did fortune cookies dole out condescending life advice rather than give out fortunes?

The Asian in me is greatly disappointed, and very much judges you. I mean, I once got a fortune with no fortune, and another time a fortune with nothing written on it...that happened like 3 times in my life.

Also the Asian in me, “I’m super annoyed at you, but do you want food?”

Trust me.....

says the spider to the fly.

Beautiful

Diego Gravinese The Duration of Promises Oil on canvas, 180 x 140 cms