back to it...

In Los Angeles.

(shooting 23 new interviews this week)

And them's the flowers blooming right outside my window. 

Cool right?

I'm just at the Marriot.  We'll move to the swanky hotel where we shoot a little later this week. Just flew in today and will take tomorrow to recover and study then will film Wed/Thurs at ye' high-end Beverly Hills hotel.

The reason for this post however is the flowers.

Beautiful flowers.

I realize the iSight focal length isn't very good and the actual shot turned out kind of 'Monet-ish' but that's not a bad thing.  What got me about it was this random beauty adorning the outside of my simple, humble, kinda' cookie cutter hotel in the city of sprawl.

What that reminded of was the simple truth that in the midst of your cookie cutter life there are sure to be spots of simple beauty also.

And it's worth noting that the flowers aren't tended, they're just growing from the backyard next to us.

That's something that should give you hope.

Beauty just grows.

Yes life is hard.  Yes it feels like we're in a struggle between good/evil, light/dark etc. You feel that push/pull very intensely here in L.A.

But I'm mindful of the fact that the beautiful has won.  The victory is complete--if you believe the stories as I do--and that's why you always find pockets of glory in the midst of the concrete.

'Cause you can't hold beauty back.

No you can't.

T