The colors red, white, and blue stand for  freedom . Unless they're flashing behind you on the road. This time though he wasn't driving. Just walking. Alongside a highway. The kind that runs through the country rather than one of those multi lane, split in the middle interstates.

From the start...

Denver at that point was hot sweat formed at the back of his neck, and he wiped it away. The bus was a relief from the heat, buts its ice cold ac stopped helping soon as they walked out of the door. Blue felt weird on the bus, like he'd...

By 2010 the world had become unrecognizable. On the surface.

Peer deeper and you'd see how things were changing less.

The details were changing. smartphones , increasingly  global economies,  electric vehicles , and promises of  self-driving cars.

But what actually mattered had calcified further.

Sebastian thought this while sipping through the middle of his ...

The sky was blue and the breeze perfect. It felt like he was on the coast of Hawaii . Such weather made him wonder whether he ought to go on this trip at all.

But the path was already set. He had purchased new sunglasses and a six pack of Hawaiian...

Today I saw a pair of sunglasses and they reminded me of my grandpa’s they were my partners grandfathers. And although he lived in Italy and my grandfather in America they looked definitely like the glasses of a grandpa. 

This made me think when does a thing become part of...

The sky would descend on them any moment. Of this he was certain. He was trying to warn the others, they were walking together in a group of four, but he didn't want to spook them. How to let them know that soon the sky would be down here, where...

In college, happiness never felt more than a coffee away.

No matter how anxious or glum the day, he knew that if he were to sit down at a cafe , order a  coffee and people watch for a couple hours he would be back to his regular old self again....

He knew his way around Old Town that was for sure.

I remember when they came to get us his back was to the entrance of the cafe. So he didn't notice until I pointed them out. That's when a look changed in his face. In a flash.

I can't say how...