Today

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​Toward the end of the film Motorcycle Diaries, there's a scene that years later I still carry with me. 
 
Alone and under a bright moon, a young Che Guevara swims across the Amazon River, crossing to the leper colony from the medical quarters. The music is haunting.
 
It's a dangerous solo journey.

And it's a baptism. 
 
He emerges from the water on the far shore a man and a young revolutionary.
 
My interest here is the journey. 
 
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"We should not attempt to return to a past that no longer exists, or seize upon a future that is forever beyond our reach, but should instead travel along our own inner axes to a more meaningful part of our present selves." Nick Cave
 
This broke me yesterday.
 
My aquamarine ink scribbles shimmering and blurring under teardrops.
 
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I still have things to say as a chef, and my door is open to listen always. 

But I have reached another shore.
 
I put a flower in her hair and let her go. 
 
I am a writer.

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Soundtrack - 2004