You ever have that moment in a dream, right before you wake up, when you realize you’re dreaming, and you tell yourself to wake up? After a few minutes you realize you’re back to reality and really start to appreciate reality? I think almost everyone has had this experience at some point. Now imagine never waking up. I […]
Month: August 2011
Native Son
For years, not only have I wanted to write, I’ve wanted to study writing. In April, I accepted an offer from Queens College in NYC to study creative writing. After years of not being able to understand why things in my life were the way they were, it seemed as if things were finally going […]
Dig in.
Sunday in the Park is nice. Sunday in the Park with George is even better. All I really need to know I didn’t learn in kindergarten. Stephen Sondheim and Georges Seurat were never mentioned. Seurat says, “Painting is the art … Continue reading →
Introduction, Inspiration and Itinerary of Events
Hello, my name is David Jakim. For the past few years I have been a professional naturalist, going out every day to study the flora and fauna of various regions and their habitats, bringing home samples of plants to analyze under the microscope and all the time trying to get a sense of the bigger […]
