In lieu of writing an expository post that explains far too much, a post that still explains far too much.

I found an old hard-drive tonight. Haven't seen it in a year or two at least. Goes back to the start of 2009!

Randomly opened the first unnamed folder and found June 2010.

How many photos I never share(d)!

Going through them I came upon story after story and before even writing a word grew weary of any words I could write.

Instead I gave myself one requirement: I must not have shared it publicly before today.

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Below and in arbitrary order:

an unknown street on my first trip to New York in many years (taken from a taxi near the airport), the literal and  metaphorical fog of Bellville, a dirty hip-hop club in Houston, a private lake that required a small truck and then a machete to get to it, Andrew bare-handed fishing in a pond in New Jersey, Smashley wearing my bikini in Galveston, lots of close-ups of my face while driving/passengering, my bathtub and a comb now lost, Cristof and Koschka wishing me good riddance, a photo of me (not taken by me) about to put down an old camera and chase seagulls or kick up seaweed, a bar where I met friends from Flickr whom I had never previously met and haven't seen since, one of my favorite people in the world holding one of my favorite babies, tomato-soaked hand, naked girl who can't stop texting her boyfriend, my then-messy but not-messy-now bathroom and, well, and and and.