Robert rides

Robert, the local security guard, riding a skateboard that he found down a sidewalk in Los Angeles. Filmed circa October, 2021. Music: Los Angeles by The Midnight.

Hope everyone had a happy fourth. I stayed home with my little one. Heโ€™s not the biggest fan of Fireworks and my neighborhood can get very loud on this day. Hereโ€™s a picture from another year where he climbed to the top shelf of the closet to escape the booms.

Happy 4th

A poem by the great Langston Hughes, with a Recipe for American Pie by Milton Bowens. โœŒ๏ธ

Let America be America again. 
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamedโ€”
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.

(It never was America to me.)
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I had a plan

I started off the year right. I had a plan and held to it for the first week. Then all hell broke loose and LA caught fire. The destruction has distracted me for the last few days. I couldnโ€™t concentrate as the wind battered my bungalow and flipped the tarp in my backyard upside down and around. A fellow coworker isnโ€™t doing much to help as I take on her shifts while she heals thyself. 4 days later Iโ€™m out of sync need some mental healing myself. My body is drained and just doing the minimum to maintain. I know what to do but a restorative sleep isnโ€™t as easy as all that, not when one has a cat. But day by day, piece by piece, Iโ€™ll reset my clock and restart the plan. 
First I just need to get through this day and not worry about what I canโ€™t control. Worry is a wonder that has often stopped me dead, I let too much rest uneasy in my head.
I write this on the bus, thereโ€™s only 2 more stops. Oh good god the bus is changing shifts! Let it go, girl & breathe. Every thing will be ok.


ps I love LA.

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