Tuesday, August 12, 2003
the last graduate
hello all,
its really good to see this new interactive digital life-form take shape. i must admit, at first i was a little skeptical. yet i really was excited to see dana's email in my inbox. its good to hear these voices again.
so here i am.
i finally finished calvin college three weeks ago. i am probably gonna stick around grand rapids for another season. since oregon, i have been working at a used bookstore, which i will continue to work at for awhile. the first thing i did when i got back from oregon was apply to work at this bookstore, and have been working there since. my perverse dream is to have a personal library like the one at lincoln.
i hesitated writing this because i thought, damnit i am just beginning the phase of life that many of you have already gone through. hell, some of you are married and have careers. i felt that everyone is grown up and i am still kind of playing this role of "college student", and that there isnt anything substantial that i have to show for myself. then i thought, ah fuck it, these are oregon extension students, career or not they are just as goddamned confused as i am. right?
so, ben boss in a nutshell: still wearin tattered jeans, dreaming crazy inarticulate possibilities, and still captivated by the sound of a gravel road and the scent of burning pine. and maybe i am just a little more digital.
my hopes and dreams: to continue falling in love, to work with gypsy children in transylvania, to learn more spanish, to spend winters in guatemala, to live in the hispanic neighborhoods of chicago, to make pancakes at midnight, to read a book or two, to listen to the elderly and the homeless, to write or song or two, to ride a camel across the sands of morocco, to breath in the stars with my friends and family, and to ride my old red bike to the end of the road.
i hope that all of your lives are beautiful.
sincerely,
benjamin (aka zen ben)
its really good to see this new interactive digital life-form take shape. i must admit, at first i was a little skeptical. yet i really was excited to see dana's email in my inbox. its good to hear these voices again.
so here i am.
i finally finished calvin college three weeks ago. i am probably gonna stick around grand rapids for another season. since oregon, i have been working at a used bookstore, which i will continue to work at for awhile. the first thing i did when i got back from oregon was apply to work at this bookstore, and have been working there since. my perverse dream is to have a personal library like the one at lincoln.
i hesitated writing this because i thought, damnit i am just beginning the phase of life that many of you have already gone through. hell, some of you are married and have careers. i felt that everyone is grown up and i am still kind of playing this role of "college student", and that there isnt anything substantial that i have to show for myself. then i thought, ah fuck it, these are oregon extension students, career or not they are just as goddamned confused as i am. right?
so, ben boss in a nutshell: still wearin tattered jeans, dreaming crazy inarticulate possibilities, and still captivated by the sound of a gravel road and the scent of burning pine. and maybe i am just a little more digital.
my hopes and dreams: to continue falling in love, to work with gypsy children in transylvania, to learn more spanish, to spend winters in guatemala, to live in the hispanic neighborhoods of chicago, to make pancakes at midnight, to read a book or two, to listen to the elderly and the homeless, to write or song or two, to ride a camel across the sands of morocco, to breath in the stars with my friends and family, and to ride my old red bike to the end of the road.
i hope that all of your lives are beautiful.
sincerely,
benjamin (aka zen ben)
