India/Nepal 2005

A video I made a few years ago and never posted...

The Party

The Venue

The Child

The Faces

The Host

The Art

The iPhone

The Wallflower

The Couple

The Ladies

The Pie

The Convo

The Drinks

The Lips

The Wine

The Wrinkles

The Decisions

The Limoncello

The Spanking Machine

The Response

The Laughter


30 is Good




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30

It's the big day. The time has come to be all grown up. Uh, not exactly. I woke up this morning in a hotel room in some place called Fremont, CA. I don't even know where that is. But, for some reason, this is the place I am to celebrate the big 3-0. 30 is scary, right? No. I think it would be scary if I woke up this morning feeling regret from the way I lived my first 30, but I dont. I actually feel like I have lived pretty well. I woke up this morning with no regrets. Sure, I've done a lot of stupid things, but every stupid mistake and descision has led me to the place I am sitting right now...and I'm okay with that. It's a pretty good place.

On tap for the weekend:
LUX coffee
Salt River Tubing
Lola's Tapas

Storms in Boston

I'm sitting in a hotel room. There's nothing special about this room...same bed as always, same shampoo, same phone, light fixtures, pillows. What is interesting, however, is how I got here. I lay in this bed because of a thunderstorm that struck Boston in April. This thunderstorm set into motion a chain of events that will forever change the course of my life. Even more interesting is that I was in Phoenix when this storm hit, almost 3000 miles away, oblivious that this was taking place....without any connection to anyone or anything in Boston.
It's a little overwhelming when I think about how the small descisions I make everyday can change everything, EVERYTHING. The phone call I choose not to answer, the person I say hello to in the coffee shop, a small deviation in my daily routine, will change everything. I love it...so powerful...so mysterious.
My latest addiction this summer is the television show LOST. I'm not much of a TV watcher, but I got the DVDs and began watching embarrasing amounts of this show as I was recovering from a surgery. There is an amazing episode in Season 3 that deals with this same issue...the infamous Desmond episode. If you haven't watched it, you should. It poses an interesting question: What if all of these small life descisions did actually get to be played out. My friend Dave Formisano also blogged about this:
"What if there were multiple timelines, all lying alongside each other, existing simultaneously. Think about your own life. What if you took this job instead of that one? What if you'd met a different girl, or moved somewhere else, or turned left instead of right? In my original theory, somewhere out there in the spaghetti strands of time, there's a universe where *exactly* each one of those things happened."
Its fun to think about. It makes me want to be more present..more aware. It makes me want to pay more attention to the people and events around me. It makes me want to weigh every one of life's descisions more carefully, because who knows who might cross my path and I might miss it...changing the course of my life.