Echoes of the Garage
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“🥇 Nothing Lasts Forever “
July 27, 2026 – 7:53 p.m. Today is one of the first days I can remember… me not looking to self-sabotage because of uncomfortable, defeating thoughts. Why? Possibly because I am learning that control… comes from learning to lose it. Nothing is as it seems… and nothing will be… by force. Like the Joker said,… Continue reading
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“✏️ Maybe Writing Is Just Another Way of Drawing”
For years I wondered what writing would eventually do for me. One late night, I realized I had been asking the wrong question. Maybe writing isn’t about becoming something. Maybe it’s simply another way of drawing—only now, the pencil is made of words. Continue reading
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“🌙 Late-Night Destinations”
July 26, 2026 – 1:46 a.m. It’s another late night for me. No going out tonight… just hanging out with my younger brother, who’s visiting from Mexico. We ended up taking one of those public e-bikes to McDonald’s for a vanilla ice cream. 😂 There’s something funny about going through the drive-thru… on a bicycle.… Continue reading
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“🏺 Poco a Poco Se Llena el Cantarito”
(“Little by little, the little clay pot fills.”) July 25, 2026 – 9:16 a.m. I’ve been slowly waking up. Usually… by this time… I’m already out and about. Active. Sometimes… it’s okay not to be. When I’m tired… stressed… or feel like quitting… I remind myself of something my mom has said for years: “Poco… Continue reading
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🕹️“The Chair Was Facing the Wrong Way”
What’s a place that no longer exists the way you remember it? July 24, 2026 The old arcade echoed like a clock ticking somewhere far away. Yet somehow… it always sounded as if it were ticking right beside you. All walks of life came and went. High school kids. The occasional homeless man asking for… Continue reading
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🥈 Okay, Doc
July 24, 2026 – 10:00 a.m. Good morning… and good morning to the intangible day. I complain. I’m happy. Then I’m not happy. Then I accept. Not necessarily in that order. It moves around… depending on the day. I once heard someone say… all great things begin small. Ironically… it was in the movie Prometheus.… Continue reading
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“🍃 Let It Roll off”
July 23, 2026 – 9:06 a.m. First things first… good morning. Thank you for allowing your eyes to see my words… and your mind to read along. Here in Los Angeles… today is sunny. Not nearly as hot as yesterday. I’m sitting under the shade. Beautiful day. Beautiful to be alive. My mom has always… Continue reading
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‘🌌 The Future I Invented”
I have a strange habit. Sometimes… before life has a chance to become something… I quietly decide what it should become. I forecast. I imagine. I connect dots that may not even belong together. Then… one day… I caught myself doing it. What happened next surprised me. Kindle gray weather… soothes him. It calms him.… Continue reading
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“🥊 Did You Really Try? “
July 22, 2026 – 9:19 a.m. Sitting in the Kindle gray… under an umbrella’s shade… a light breeze drifting by. I am consistently trying… even when something I write isn’t good enough. Last night… around midnight… I wrote something and published it. Wow… it wasn’t that great. Half asleep… I wrote it anyway. I almost… Continue reading
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“We Never Really Know Each Other”
The Stranger I Never Really Met Today I met someone I’ll probably never truly know. For an hour… I saw pieces of their life. Some were beautiful. Some were painful. Some made me feel like we were alike. Then I realized… I wasn’t meeting the whole person. I was meeting a chapter. July 22, 2026… Continue reading