The Infinite Abyss
Stories from my explorations of life.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Staten Island Ferry
I am a fan of things that are free. The Staten Island Ferry is free,
ergo, I am a fan of the Staten Island Ferry. So today I grabbed my camera
and headed out to see what I would find.
The docks of Lower Manhattan. |
Riding the Ferry over to Staten Island. It was pretty cold! |
The docks of Staten Island. |
I went exploring around SI and found this cool bar. |
This building is 120 years old. |
A very nice man concerned with my salvation gave me this piece of paper. |
SI feels very small compared to Manhattan. |
Who doesn't love a good wolf mural? |
I actually witnessed the chair on the left being purchased. One lucky girl is going to have a great quinceanera! |
You can still see the affects of Hurricane Sandy. |
I just liked this building. |
I found Caribbean food! I had me some great beef roti and some mac pie. |
Overall, taking a trip over to Staten Island wasn't a bad way to spend a Saturday. The rest of these picture of photos of tourists taking picture.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Thursday, December 20, 2012
The Graduate
“Ben, what are you
doing?”
“Well, I would say
that I am just drifting….here in the pool.”
To
celebrate my recent graduation from college I felt it appropriate to watch the
1967 film The Graduate. In this
film Dennis Hoffman plays Ben Braddock, a recent college grad that is lost
after graduation and is worried about his future, sounds familiar.
I
have seen this movie before but as I watched this time I understood Ben in a
way I have not before. He is
unsure about his future. In one
scene he tells his father he is scared for his future, that he wants his future
to be…different. I find myself in
a same situation as Ben. (Except for the having an affair with an older married
woman part, we differ in that regard.) Graduating from college is a scary step
into the world. For the past 25
years of my life I have been a student, which has been my identity. After
I finished college and left the study halls behind I no longer had the identity
of a student. I understood the
world through the eyes of a student and graduation was always a far off distant
reality that I never liked to think about. Not only did graduation come, it flew at me like a baseball
to the back of the head, a locomotive steaming past me at a hundred miles an
hour, and I am still trying to stop my head from spinning.
In
the beginning of The Graduate, Ben is not sure what to do with himself. His friends and family want to know
what this college track star is going to do now that he is done with
school. He feels the pressure of
their expectations. There is a
scene in the movie where Ben’s father forces him to show off his new SCUBA
diving suit to some friends. Ben,
dressed in the suit, somberly flops the giant flippers on his feet as he walks
from the house to the backyard pool, all you hear is his breathing through the
respirator, and then he jumps in the pool. The scene ends with him sitting in silence at the
bottom of the pool, completely defeated, trapped under the weight of societal
pressures and his own uneasiness.
I feel that same uneasiness about my future.
The
rest of the movie involves Ben searching for his future and at the end it isn’t
entirely clear if he has found it or not. I am drifting in the pool, but
hopefully I am drifting forward. I
may not have found my future yet but unlike Ben I am confident that I will. And
there is one other thing that I know for sure; things would be much better if I
had Simon and Garfunkel as the soundtrack to my life.
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Thanksgiving 2012
A little video I put together for Thanksgiving 2012
I've spent the last 4 months with all of these people. They are some of the best people I've meet. I am grateful I got have Thanksgiving with them in DC.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
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