#without pretense

[m1rrag]

I don’t remember who

Some friend of mine at some point in time said they like it when people refer to people they know by name without feeling the need to contextualize them; as if you’re already part of their family or you’ll get to know those people soon or it doesn’t matter how they’re connected; you’ll pick up on who they are by the way they are talked about instead of societally-constructed details. I kind of liked that they liked this because my natural inclination is to get angry and frustrated when people do that. I still think that talking like this or writing like this is pretentious, presumptive, and implicitly exclusionary, but I also still like imagining a world where not-teaching is never used to exclude or oppress. 

[marklaubenheimer]

without pretense, 2013

[curly-bookworm]

I realized today why I stay with him and love him.

He makes me comfortable.

It doesn't matter how someone else has abs of steel or understands my pop culture references.

No other man has made me as comfortable as he has done.  The foundation of his character is unshakeable and gives me strength until I am ready to stand on my own.

Anyone can make me laugh, but he's the only man to make me comfortable to be me without pretense.

[coffee-angel]

I AM ENTRANCED with this Photography.

From his own words:

"I am once again the voyeur…. 

I am completely energized by urban photography. I love to roam the streets observing and capturing people and places as they are, without posing or pretense.

All in all, I suppose my eye tends to be drawn to the subtle details. Those things that make the world what it is, even though most people don’t take a lot of notice, until they see it in a photograph."