i’ll be house-sitting with stuart over at uborka for the week and while we attempt to be considerate houseguests, i came up with something for you all to look at in my absence. every day i’ll post two images from my massive and cherished photo collection. these aren’t meant to be impressive feats of photograpy – they’re meant to recall a moment, tell a story. for each image, i’ll add one hundred words of text explaining or remembering. i hope you enjoy. and for the strong of constitution, head over to the uborgy. should be… interesting.


i know the exact date of this picture. well, not the date. it was taken the first day i wore my doc martens. i was wearing that plaid flannel shirt that made me feel tomboyish, and a patched pair of levis. marnix took the picture, after laughingly adorning my hair with leaves.
what’s remarkable about this photograph isn’t the leaves, or the tough-girl shirt, or the docs. i hated this photograph at sixteen. i thought i looked simple, with that half-smile. but time changes everything – now i see beautiful youth, which doesn’t particularly need to smile too much for anything.

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