vol. 5

When you arrive in Boston, you’ll have a few options for sleeping spaces. Beware the room on the 1.5th floor. This is the room of chairs, and those who lie cradled in their arms sleep for many years.

// Framingham, MA, USA

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Consensually objectifying this guy since 2012.

// Boston, MA, USA

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// Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA

// Photo credit b August

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“Mere light is too common a thing to make a strong impression on the mind, and without a strong impression nothing can be sublime…”

// watercolor by Charmaine Wheatley

// Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA

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Hopped in a bus from LAX ;;

// Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Los Angeles, you have a water crisis. Stop that, LA.

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Near the top of the mountain, we found a young couple breaking up. One of them clearly didn’t realize where this hike was going ;;

As we turned to keep going, a boy in a white shirt leaned in for that soft and painful kiss ;; the rest of the world took pictures of the city below and pretended kindly not to see.

// Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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// Griffith Observatory, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA, USA

// Photo credit b August

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// Griffith Observatory, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA, USA

// Photo credit b August

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No, orbit of URanus ;;

// Griffith Observatory, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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As the world turns ;;

// Griffith Observatory, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Hiking up the mountain, we joked about how useful an observatory could really be, perched above a city made of so much light and smog. Rose, we were wrong. It was so beautiful, and that pendulum swinging while the earth just turns calmly below. Wow. We saw a show, discovered ourselves in the cosmos, and then emerged blinking into the night. The whole of LA lit up below us.

// Griffith Observatory, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA, USA

// Photo credit b August

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Another day, another hike in Griffith Park ;;

// Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA, USA

// Photo credit b August

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// Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA, USA

// Photo credit b August

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Boulevard of Broken Dreams ;;

// Los Angeles, CA, USA

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// La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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BIKE
YOUR
WALK

// Venice Beach, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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// “Declaration” by Mark di Suvero

// Venice Beach, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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// Downtown Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Come at us, Zapdos.

// Presidio, San Francisco, CA, USA

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// Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA, USA

// Photo credit b August

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// Coit Tower, San Francisco, CA, USA

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New city, new hat ;;

// San Francisco, CA, USA

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// Bay Bridge, San Francisco Bay, CA, USA

// Photo credit b August

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// Oakland Port, San Francisco Bay, CA, USA

// Photo credit b August

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A map you can touch and tug ;; feel how the land and trees grow up

// Muir Woods, CA, USA

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// Muir Woods, CA, USA

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another sign off

I JUST WANTED TO SAY MEADOW ONCE AND REALLY
MEAN IT
TO SAY (C)LOVER ONCE AND MAYBE ONCE SAY (S)UN
AND (P)LUCK
I JUST WANTED TO GO ON WITHOUT WHISPERING: SOUL
SOUL SOUL
CAUSE, SO WHAT SOUL, SO FUCKING WHAT?

(I KNOW A LITTLE ANIMAL THAT IS ALL BODY
ALL CHEEK AND FLEECE AND LUCK)

// Muir Woods, CA, USA

// text by Olena Kalytiak Davis

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Why go to Australia when there’s gum trees in San Francisco?

// Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, USA

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// Sutro Baths, San Francisco, CA, USA

// Photo credit b August

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maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach(to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

// Sutro Baths, San Francisco, CA, USA

// Text by E. E. Cummings

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Video killed the radio phone ;;

// Video credit to B C Carlson

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// Seattle, WA, USA

// Video credit Amrita Maz

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The Space Needle is best viewed at a distance, apparently.

// Seattle, WA, USA

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// Pike Place Market, Seattle, WA, USA

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Boston ;; a drain on all of us

// Boston, MA, USA

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Flower of fine art

// Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA

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Presumably the sign is OK ;;

// Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA

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ELECTRONICE VEHICLE CHARGING STATION

// Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Donald, eres un pendejo.

There’s a whole lot of sun in LA, and a whole lot of white cement, just there, just ready for reflection.

// Los Angeles, CA, USA

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// Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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LA, you are on fire.

// Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA, USA

// Photo credit b August

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After Griffith J Griffith finished farming ostrich feathers, after he was done grifting land out like watches, after the donation of his leftover land to the city and the inception of the park, after Mr. J Griffith failed to finish his wife off but did succeed in shooting her, after the prison term, the suggestion of an observatory, a Greek amphitheater, a planetarium, a girl’s camp and a boy’s camp, after the city decided, “Hmm, better not get into bed with a man who shot his wife,” after they waited until his death to fund his projects, after trees grew and died, after the smog came as if squeezed out of some djinn’s lamp, b and I watched after a sweaty hike the sun set and the earth calmly turn below.

// Griffith Observatory, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA, USA

// Photo credit b August