stop your parents’ car — i just saw a shooting star
— the Avett Brothers, “Laundry Room”
This is a track from the Avetts’ upcoming I And Love And You, out in September; I ripped a version of it recorded for an NPR session from video to .mp3 so that I could put it on repeat and just soak in it.
I accepted a job offer from a much-maligned branch of the federal government yesterday. It’s not my dream job, but it is a job I’m genuinely excited about, and not just for salaries and benefits and paid federal holidays and having a job — it’s a job where I can make a difference in the lives of strangers, and after the last two years, wrapped up in my own head and my own tiny life working from home on a very isolated project, I’m looking forward to that. I’m ready to come out of this cocoon I’ve been in for a while now and interact with human beings again.
I am relieved by this job, and yet I am still very, very tired. I am tired of leaping and expecting to, finally, this time, fly, and only ever falling. So this time I’m going to take two small steps into something stable, and get my life under control, and then see where I can leap from there. It’s not glamorous or exciting, but it’s exactly what I need right now.
teach me how to use the love that people say you make
brand new kind of photography 