2002-05-07 - 3:18 p.m.

it feels good to be stroked california: i never ever thought the desert would be so beautiful. if i lived there, i might be in constant awe. or maybe i would go back to ohio with new eyes. unashamedly overwhelmed eyes, drinking in the whole spiked punch bowl of my surroundings. i can�t stop smiling. at all times being hypersensitive to beauty, because natural beauty shames cynicism.

baah