She said, "I hear you've lived an exciting life." I didn't know her, but it turned out she was the wife of a client of my Ex's boyfriend. And I still don't know why she would say that, except it led to an hour-long conversation ... mostly me talking. She knew about the Marine Corps, my time in Asia, the motorcycles and photography. There were a lot of blanks I filled in, having a water glass of Champagne sitting there on the step beside me. I told her that it's mostly finished as I'm not riding much anymore and have pretty much stopped shooting. She told me to be open to whatever comes along next.Best advice I've heard in a long time. I'll never again drop through the hell hole of a helicopter and will probably never challenge my bike to scrape the pegs on uneven pavement again. I may never make erotic photographs of pretty girls again. But there will probably be something coming along ... next. I should be open to it.
Emalie, photographed in Boulder City several years ago for Nerve.Com. If you want to go find that feature, it's called "All the Real Girls," and was shared with Siege and Steve Diet Goedde.
posted by D. Brian Nelson at 11:17 AM
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Sounds like one of those good conversations we like to have. The ones that leave you with a kind of satisfaction when they're over.
The advice is good. I wish I could abide by it. I've been pushed and lead down a couple of new paths in the last two years and for some strange reason I can't come to terms with the changes going on.
Thought of you as I was reading the Sunday paper and saw a column titled "Deriving pleasure from books read, and unread". In the Arts section a staff writer was telling how he sometimes has piles of books that he has had for a long time but never read. Then they call to him and he reads some.
I like owning books, read and unread. Saw a review of Amazons new electronic book. $400.00 plus you still have to pay to download the books at about the same price as a paper copy.
Nice but how do you place that favorite book mark, that your now 25 year old daughter made for you when she was six years old, between the pages, and how do you hi-lite or underline those favorite or meaningful passages or how do you make notes in the margins or how do you look at it on your book shelf and remember what a good story it was and maybe want to read it again? Another thing about books of paper is that the batteries don't go dead, you don't have to carry around another damn charger and if ya drop it or spill something on it, it's called patina, not broken.
D.L. Wood
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