Shinning, Shimmering, Splendid

I just got back to LA from my Houston holiday vacation. I like the airport. People surprise me sometimes. Rarely, but sometimes. I need a new sketchbook.

There was a man who had a Texas themed merchandise cart near the gate I was waiting at. He was stout and waddled with a heavy southern accent. Normally, I've noticed people working at those kiosks look so angry and bitter but not this guy. He greeted everyone as they walked buy, if they were looking or not and smiled happily in their direction. He struck up small conversations with the other airport employees as they went by and just kept on smiling. His enthusiasm made me smile as well. One lady got up from where she was sitting and sat somewhere else. The man noticed a wallet left on the floor and went one by one to everyone sitting around my gate asking if it was theirs, until the lady who was previously sitting there claimed it. People who love what they do no matter what it is make the world a better place.

Peeking through the gaps between airplane seats I saw a girl, maybe 3 or 4 years old sitting in front of me on my flight back to LA. Even though I dislike children, she was adorable, as adorable as a little girl could be. She was watching a Disney DVD on a laptop or something similar, princesses with high-pitched voices dancing around the screen. We started our decent into LAX. She turned for a brief moment away from the princesses and opened the window blind. She said "Daddy! I can see the world!" as her eyes widened, her voice quieted, "I can see it... down there."

People come into your life for a reason.

"In a perfect perfect world you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you'll never see again. Until walking on your own is unsupportable."

- Neil Gaiman, Bitter Grounds

Run

I just wanted you to know that if I was her, and a guy like you were chasing after me, I would stop and let you catch me.

Oh, the things you will see

I was driving home from Echo Park today and I stopped at a stop light. I looked over at an apartment complex and saw some things.

First, I saw a lady leaning out of her window feeding pigeons. Her window was being flooded with a swarm of pigeons. I don't really think I've seen a pigeon lady before now. It reminded me of Home Alone or Mary Poppins.

Second, I noticed something hanging from the story above the pigeon lady. I didn't see it for long enough but I'm pretty sure it was a sock monkey tied to the top of the window. It was being held there by a noose made out of string. There it was dangling, right above the pigeon lady. I wonder if she knew.

Traveling

I saw a lot of people in the airport while I was traveling.

There was a very tall man with neck length stark white curly hair. The kind that is perfectly curled. The man's face was very rectangular and and the curls came to a point at the top of his forehead. He was very pale and combined with his earth toned attire, and thin black rimmed glasses, his hair was almost glowing. Around his neck was a black badge holder that you would get from a convention or something and it was empty.

Two nuns, who after a long delay in our flight scheduled shouted "Hail Mary!" when the plane finally took off. Both had the name "Sister Mary ____."

A young boy that was watching a brother and sister playing together from across the room. He had a longing grin on his face to have a playmate.

Two mothers with daughter's named Sarah and Sara. They were discussing how they both knew Sarah's with an "H" and Sara's "without an H. The dialogue was similar to this:
"My daughter is also named Sarah"
"Is it Sarah with an 'H' or without?"
"With the 'H'."
"Oh, her name is Sara without the 'H'."

A husband and a wife who both resembled toads. They both had glasses and were very round with scrunched necks. The man was dressed in varying shades of grey green and had a greyish vest on. The vest had 4 inner pockets. The man had 6 sticks of string cheese that he kept splitting up and moving to various pockets inside his vest. On his lap was a leopard print suitcase. The woman was in a pastel pink matching sweat suit and had overly long fake nails painted bronze. With the tip of her fake nails she was pealing a string cheese.

A 60+ y/o man who resembled Indiana Jones. This man had a PHD and was an Engineering proffessor who ran away to his sanctuary in the mountains every weekend. We held a great conversation, but later I found out that, this man, who is 3x my age was trying to hit on me. He wanted me to become the "eve" in his "garden of Eden."

Let's go fly a kite

This happened at Echo Park

There was a homeless guy at the park looking through trash cans. A couple was going for a walk and looked as if they had just gotten back from the grocery store. They offered him some food, since they had plenty. He said no, politely. The man offered it again. Judging by his body language he was probably reassuring the guy that it was O.K. to accept the food. The homeless guy then turned his back towards the couple and crossed his arms like an angry child. He shook his head no, over and over again until the couple began to walk off. He went right back to looking through the trash can, picked up a paper cup... took a drink and put it back in the trash.

Truck art

found on the way to work