Lasting Impressions

So, let's start this blog off with a cheesy, sentimental, introspection post. If you were to travel a path which you knew your friends would be traveling later, what drawings would you leave behind so they knew you had been there? You're allowed to use words, but it's more fun to use pictures only or maybe a few esoteric letters that only your friends and loved ones would recognize. Admittedly this is not a novel idea, it came after listening to an Iron & Wine song, The Trapeze Swinger (lyrics...and address of full song, here). The lyrics are "my dear, but if i make the Pearly Gates i’ll do my best to make a drawing of God and Lucifer, a boy and girl, an angel kissin’ on a sinner, a monkey and a man, a marching band all around the frightened trapeze-swinger".

So what kind of graffiti would you leave on Heaven's Gate? The more I thought about the question, the harder it was to pinpoint something all my friends would recognize as uniquely me. I suppose the Chicago Bear 'C' logo on a computer monitor might work, a few months ago a drawing of Cole with a trash can on its side and its contents scattered would have sufficed. It's brutal realizing you're not as self-aware or memorable as you thought you were, but it also provides some incentive to make everyday a new experience.