Bee and Dubbs - The Uuuge

...what...it's a different angle...

Jackie y Nathan (Por Vida)

...jackie visited me in august...joining us on that visit was the tiniest of peanuts, now 5 months old...it will be a girl, and i hope she dances and writes and laughs and twinkles and moves and talks and feels exactly like her folks here...ha! 27 year old FOLKS! i will throw nathan a few names, from my name hat...but that will require some serious thinking. names no joke, and the young man is one of only a few people i know who take words seriously...respectfully.

i was lucky enough to be in california when these two crazy teens tied the knot. i tried to take a photo of their jackets hanging on their chairs by the remains of their champagne glasses but i failed miserably. my battle with the yellows and red of interior lighting continues...anyway, at least the sun was kind enough to provide for us outside. that's tiburón in the back there...those are brilliant roses in jackie's hair...that is the sweet blueness of nathan's look...and that is the comfort between them, hands around baby belly...

<3

Laura and Boyfriend #1 (Ode to Norma Jean)

To Abuse Those You Love Most

...is a study in borjaisms...what i love about this photo most is her selflessness about the gaze, sure, but mostly mostly that i know exactly how soft her face is...i can feel it and smell it...it's weird 'shooting' in ones' home...'home...' i kind of feel like all rules are off and i am as messy with the photograph as i am with my room, or the kitchen clean up...no rules for composition because i am comfortable in that space...i don't even see the yellow walls or the blue and white coffee cup my mother adores, or the basket and mail box outside the blown out wall, the blinds, the back hall or the table we've had for EONS...all i see is my mother and all i feel is our equilibrium.

LP and KP - Por El Mar

...aqui se ven contentas no?...these two, swimming through and around each others' lives and paths and daughters, stuck with the same father and vocabulary and education but with different memories of the same time, similar features but different motivations...m.o....movements...i am not saying it is easy to raise or care for a family or raise daughters or even stay in the picture for the entirety of childhood...but i am saying that unconditional love is all that is expected of you and you cannot withhold the one thing that is required of you as a father...we do not barter / trade with that...that's the basis, the base...i have always marveled at how wonderful the two of them turned out, given where they came from...no insult there, as i know the man himself would justify himself to the ends of the earth, where he would find himself alone in a cabin by the water, deaf to almost everything, never realizing that most people at this point are humoring him, and not taking him seriously...for all his seriousness...seriously...some choose heart over thought, some choose calculation over gut, some compare beauty to brains, success over passion...i choose all of the above, and recognize in my mother and my aunt the existence of infinite combinations of traits like these within each of them.

The Finest

...the original LP with Adrienne, my Madrina...we spoke this week - Toronto to Modesto - and she still loves me, after all this time, isn't that incredible? In fact, I think she loved me before I was born...isn't that incredible, too?

Pooh Bear Bathroom #1