Forever12 is gone


She's in the middle

... well she will be tonight as she embarks on a school in London to study photography.

i have "hated" her for being a talking head and for being a networking champion (maybe because i wasn't much of one when i needed to be). but i have loved her for those same things in the past year-- a year where we bonded after being associates who disliked each other all on the account of surface impressions. Photography somehow meshed us.

Now she is taking the craft truly seriously and taking that next step, a step i will take when i feel i am ready. Someone i used to feel was full of _____ is "getting grown", something to so many never though even as they past their twenties. She is one of last friends i have made in Queens where i grew up and still live, and that means a lot since so many live elsewhere. ten minutes by car and i could crash her crib, watch DVDS, be sniffed by her big dog, chat with her parents, and keep my mouth shut about what i think of Fabolous. For now that's gone.

Last night we celebrated at her home, with food and drink, and watched her put on a show to Andre 3000's side of the new Outkast record. i took photos of her and looked around, realizing that you never where life will take you and who will enter it on the way. Transitions... embrace it.