Dearest Finals Beard,
For the past two weeks you have grown on me (physically and emotionally), but I’m afraid it’s time for us to part ways. You down the sink, me to the corporate office where fellow bankers aren’t as welcoming to your warm yet itchy wool-like persona. However our time together was not wasted. Every 3 months you come around to remind me that on short notice I can move to Yosemite and live like Grizzly Adams. You ward off the cold and the punishing rays of the sun, while I pamper you with the finest Pantene Pro-V hair conditioner Ralph’s has to offer. Remember last week when we woke up and you had garlic bread crumbs stuck on you from last night’s dinner? I cherish those moments and do not weep for I know in due time you will return.
Love,
Arya
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We are two indians in the same canoe…..
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San Luis Obispo
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Breakfast with Jordan before leaving Berkeley….
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Favorite place on Earth
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Lake Mission Viejo
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Chinatown at night
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The 405 South, Los Angeles
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Sentinel Dome/Half Dome, Yosemite National Park
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Isla Vista, Santa Barbara
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It’s not the road we used to know, they tore some buildings down. There’s fewer trees, windows for lease, concrete on the lawn. And so the road finally gave me back, but I don’t think I’ll unpack because I’m not sure if I live here anymore.
San Clemente, CA -
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Wings
Los Angeles -
Bass Lake, California
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Election Night, 2012
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These pictures are from a night during my trip to San Francisco this October. The murals are in Cloyne, a cooperative in Berkeley run by UC Berkeley students. I was 17 when I first visited Cloyne, I was too young to understand what was going on then. I still don’t think I do. It’s an incredible place nonetheless.
Berkeley, California
