My first ever real blog

I started this blog 3 days ago after I came back from a 1 week solo exploration trip to San Diego, CA.

It has been clear to me for quite some time now that I AM ready for change. Change in; location, lifestyle, problems, variety of jobs. Not that I want to change profession, but I am in need of something else outside of sound...something more expressive. My first change was moving to a new apartment on south beach...2 blocks north. This proved to help the situation a little bit, but I needed more. So I started skimboarding a lot more. Made a great new friend and had some great days of skimming...but I needed more. So I also started shooting...a lot...but I needed more.

I had given a few locations some thought, and visited Spain, Costa Rica, Los Angeles, France...all with the thought of maybe one day relocating to them, but nothing kept my attention and seemed like a logical solution to my internal turmoil. But now that I have returned from San Diego, I believe I might be onto something. Something good, and something big.

My heart and soul yearn for the lifestyle I have dreamed of for so long and that seems to be ideal for Tom. I want...for myself...to excel in my profession as a sound engineer, to learn, experience, achieve and grow as the professional I can see myself being. I want...for myself...to wake up in the morning and have the choice to go surfing and start my day off right, with the right attitude and mindset that life is indeed great...or surf after work...go for a hike on a sunday afternoon...drive to the desert on a clear night....or to the mountains for a weekend of snowboarding. I want...for myself and life as we will come to know it...to use the resources I possess in my artistic youth, expression, my eye and my highly technological camera to help change the downward trend of our earth's climate. Something needs to be done, and I am not ready to accept the fact that I could have done something, but instead chose to be selfish.

Sure, it is possible that this might just be another one of earth's cooling and heating cycles...or that it is all a bluff and that it is just another one of the government's ploys to hypnotize us and gain control...and truth is, I don't give a rat's ass: If more people pollute less, if less oil is being burned, if more people become aware of their affect on the earth, if less animals are being killed uselessly , if more alternative resources are being perssued and used...what negative can come from that?


So I AM going to move, I AM going to throw myself out to all the organizations that I believe are fighting for something that is good and true, I AM going to search out the things I need to be a healthy, smart and smiling individual on a daily basis, and I AM going to make a difference.

I will document the change and the difference and good that will come from it, and it will hopefully be contagious. =)

Here are some pictures from my trip. CLICK ME (All seriousness aside...this isn't necesarily part of the change)

This is the begining.

I have finally created a blog and will be posting soon. It may be the begining of something big, for me. At least I certainly hope so. Stay tuned.