What a summer this has been
I came home from Amsterdam in a rush and went to Nice, France to join my love Justin and his family.
Colin is doing better, thank you so much to everyone for their loving support and emails.
Here are some pictures of Amsterdam. It was an amazing place. I got to hang out the whole time with my friend Ben Cerveny. The best way to describe Ben is a philosopher. He's the creative director of a video-sharing service called Revver, his design will be online... uh, at some point. We went to a museum about the history of Amsterdam; I have never seen such a well-planned city. It's quite amazing. There are tons of artists, writers, and thinkers who live there. Though you have to put up with the foreigners carousing they mostly stay within a two block radius. Amsterdam is the first place I've been this summer where I could imagine living.
I also met a 20 year-old named Nadya who works at a new media arts organisation called MediaMatic and her boyfriend Andy Smith who'd just returned from programming "some cool Python thingy" for the US military in Hanover when I met them. They were both very smart (Nadya studies artificial intelligence and fine art) and fun. I haven't met young people in the states who are intellectually involving themselves in the subject matter that I am. They were surprised when I told them this and said that most of the young people they knew in Amsterdam were just like them. I guess my peer group has been in Holland this whole time. This is a guy named Tom who works for Yahoo, Andy, and Nadya:
On my last night, Andy and I went to a rock club where we drank beer and talked about the internet, our partners, and California (among other things). It was lots of fun.
Now I'm in Nice. Yesterday, before Colin woke from his drug-induced coma (YAY!!!), we drove out to a small church where Mother Mary has been appearing for a long time. Joan Hall and the Rhone's secretary Nadine lit a candle for Colin under the St. Bernadette statue.
The church walls were covered in Merci paintings: art made the for the Virgin Mary to thank her for appearing and helping them.
There were also numerous plaques there.
Justin and I found a statue of Saint Joan of Arc, and Justin lit a candle under her.
Here are Joan and George in the waiting room in Nice.
And Justin and me.
Love to you all.