You’re going to have moments where you question what you’re doing or you experience a level of turmoil or tragedy that calls into question, “Oh, I could have had some other totally different life, but instead I did this.” You have to be able to separate your professional life from your identity as a human being.

Conor Oberst

I won’t mince words. The health-care bill that the House of Representatives passed this afternoon, in an incredibly narrow 217-to-213 vote, is not just wrong, or misguided, or problematic or foolish. It is an abomination. If there has been a piece of legislation in our lifetimes that boiled over with as much malice and indifference to human suffering, I can’t recall what it might have been. And every member of the House who voted for it must be held accountable.

Paul Waldman, The Washington Post

Cuba, Part II

Havana, Cuba. April 2017 | Part II (part 1 here)

 

All photographs were taken with a Leica camera and Kodak Portra 400 film, developed and scanned by Richard Photo Lab in California.

Cuba, Part I

Havana, Cuba. April 2017 | Part I (part II here)

Lauren and I made a trip to Cuba last week.

We spent three days exploring Havana and one day we made it out to the countryside and wandered Viñales. It’s quite clear we didn’t have nearly enough time and we need to go back, sometime I hope very soon.

Cuba is an amazing and fascinating place. So much history, culture, art and music. Some of my favorite moments were the late night jazz we caught at a few small rooms and then walking back through the lively streets.

But most all of all, I loved connecting with the people we met. So warm and kind. We were invited into people homes and hearing their stories.  Living a hard life for sure, each in their own way.

Part II here.

All photographs were taken with a Leica camera and Kodak Portra 400 film, developed and scanned by Richard Photo Lab in California.