I recently had the pleasure of working with STOKED & Mountain Dew to coach a 7 week summer program for 8 lucky students. The students were tasked with creating and promoting a community-based skateboarding event in Los Angeles. What they developed is nothing short of impressive and I am looking forward to seeing it come to life in the following months. Read all about it in my guest blog post on the STOKED website.
I did this collage a while back. It’s a random assortment of imagery. I’m sure there’s some subconscious representation of how I feel in one or more of the images.
Los Angeles is a mixed bag of emotion for me. On the one hand, it’s my home. The place where I was born and raised, which essentially shaped who I am today. On the other hand, coming back and being immersed in change makes it seem like a foreign territory. Almost like an extended vacation of sorts. “Hotel California” comes to mind. A place where you can go, but never leave (in reference to memories that exist of things that once were). That’s obviously an over-dramatization, but life changes such as moving back or away from home are a pretty big deal.
“Adjusting” to life back in LA has been tricky. I’ve been in a bit of funk lately for erroneously thinking I could glide back into to the swing of things here. Instead of a NYC rude awakening, I got a chill SoCal morning call. As both wake you from your (hopefully) blissful slumber, neither is very pleasant. But I’m happy to have realized that the life I want is the life I’m willing to work for and not one that is miraculously going to fall from the sky.
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