Photos taken 17 February 2007. Click each photo to enlarge, or click here for the whole gallery.

Photos taken 19 February 2007 at China Camp State Park in San Rafael, California.

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California Street, San Francisco

Flowers

Far from Yare, Pt. Reyes, CA

That bridge again.

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Friday, September 30, 2005

About My Parallax View

I’m a Nebraskan. I’m from Nebraska.

That might seem redundant, but I think some people all-too-eagerly give up being a Nebraskan as soon as they move away, and I haven’t. And I can't imagine that I ever will.

But I did move away. In 1997, after a childhood in Grand Island, and a much older but no less childish young-adulthood in Lincoln, I developed wanderlust. I wanted to find out what it was like living someplace different.

Now this Nebraskan lives in San Francisco.

I was looking for someplace different and I gotta tell you, I found it in spades. And living here for the past ten or so years I have grown, matured, struggled, and questioned a lot of things. I’ve had some of my beliefs tested and some reinforced. On occasion, I’ve had my mind blown. Throughout this process, I’ve gradually become a San Franciscan, fully embracing everything that it entails.

I would expect a San Franciscan who moves to Nebraska with an open heart and mind to undergo a similar transformation. In many ways they are truly different worlds. And though I’m here now, I’m still a Nebraskan, and that is how we will achieve parallaxis.

The term parallax pertains to the viewing of something from two or more perspectives – particularly how differently a thing can appear simply depending on where you’re sitting. I find that I have a parallax view on a lot of things in my life, now that I see them as a Nebraskan, but also as a San Franciscan. It’s actually a really nice view.

So that’s what I hope I can provide with this blog – along with some laughs, and maybe a few things that make us all think a little – a parallax view on our worlds, San Francisco and Nebraska.

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  • I grew up in Grand Island, Nebraska. Now I live smack in the middle of San Francisco.

    Parallaxis is the view from here (& there).

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