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I find it funny that I no longer post very often here on DA but I will still check in and every time I do I check for a note from a girl I thought I loved. She no longer even has a profile here. Not sure if it's habit, curiosity or hope. :)

I have written this journal so many times. I was always afraid that I was going to wake up tomorrow and it wouldnt be true. But it is true. It's been true for weeks for months almost now. I am happy. Happiness born of an almost intrinsic belief in the control I exercise over my life and my happiness. The knowledge that happiness is not something to be found but a choice we make every day. I think I finally see now that perfection is inherently imperfect that we have to find perfection in the imperfect. My portrait project has been quite simply life changing. More than I could have hoped for, the people I have met have have had a profo

What's different this time is I am traveling alone and the only object is to find inspiration in strangers and strange places. Lately I have been traveling quite extensively through the western United States. Now its time head east! I want to photograph nearly everyone I meet, create a catalog of faces and find one person each day to profile. I feel that there is so much beauty in this world and if I could stand back and take it all in at once it would make my heart burst. I want to find little pieces of that beauty in the people I meet, and record it. I am in love with that beauty with that discovery, the epiphany of letting go, stop tr