a photo journal by jonathan westTumblr (3.0; @jonathanwest)http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/<iframe class="tumblr_audio_player tumblr_audio_player_49326444799" src="http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/49326444799/audio_player_iframe/jonathanwest/tumblr_mm3j5bDBNg1rcwe4s?audio_file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Fjonathanwest%2F49326444799%2Ftumblr_mm3j5bDBNg1rcwe4s" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" width="500" height="169"></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://daily-dose-of-music.tumblr.com/post/49323481596/radical-face-were-on-our-way">daily-dose-of-music</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Radical Face-We’re On Our Way</p> </blockquote>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/49326444799http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/49326444799Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:09:46 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b5c25a4ce604ae69afd587bff4dd3129/tumblr_mm3kjvgE851qg8goro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A couple of friends asked me to do their engagement photos.  I was so damn nervous because I’ve hardly taken my camera out lately, being caught up in school and my own engagement.  But I had a lot of fun and the outcome was wonderful.  Congrats, you two!</p>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/49326205967http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/49326205967Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:07:07 -0400black and whitebeachcouple<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdf0bmlg0a1qg8goro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I took a picture of a butterfly.  No one’s ever done that before.</p>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/35625096428http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/35625096428Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:18:57 -0500butterfly<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md91k7Aibx1qg8goro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/35376998390http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/35376998390Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:00:07 -0500black and whitestatueireland<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md91gvxKGE1qg8goro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/35376866194http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/35376866194Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:58:06 -0500london<iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F13592423&liking=false&sharing=false&origin=tumblr" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" class="soundcloud_audio_player" width="500" height="116"></iframe><br/><br/>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/35376420983http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/35376420983Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:51:30 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md5dz0fePU1qg8goro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/35246035554http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/35246035554Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:37:48 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md5dv7vMb41qg8goro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/35245868572http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/35245868572Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:35:31 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md5dt22N5H1qg8goro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/35245774503http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/35245774503Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:34:13 -0500ireland<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_magu1phII81qg8goro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/31692711033http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/31692711033Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:17:49 -0400stonehenge<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5vtz5uFdl1qg8goro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/25455455140http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/25455455140Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:52:17 -0400black and whitegardenstatue<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3qaxcCIWN1qg8goro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/22682659718http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/22682659718Tue, 08 May 2012 20:05:36 -0400light painting<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3mysgY4hQ1qg8goro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/22572275348http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/22572275348Mon, 07 May 2012 00:50:39 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ao2kDeBY1qg8goro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="Apple-style-span">I’ve been feeling really down and out for a while. Sort of this sense of inadequacy… But today the universe wanted to let me know otherwise. To the left is a coffee mug i received as a late easter gift when I got home from school today. To the right is a newspaper someone left in one of the bins for me to find on route this morning.</span></p>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/20883829278http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/20883829278Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:54:20 -0400good day<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m237k7WQbh1qg8goro1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m237k7WQbh1qg8goro2_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/20626881264http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/20626881264Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:14:00 -0400black and whitemandolin<p>Just took my grandfather&#8217;s mandolin in to get fixed.  In one week, it&#8217;ll be mine.</p>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/19375178283http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/19375178283Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:31:24 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0jw13hljy1qg8goro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/18936593537http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/18936593537Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:17:27 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0jvq5UOHf1qg8goro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/18936327143http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/18936327143Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:10:53 -0500“”<br/><br/> - <em><p>Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.</p> <p>Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.</p> <p>She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.</p> <p>Buy her another cup of coffee.</p> <p>Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.</p> <p>It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.</p> <p>She has to give it a shot somehow.</p> <p>Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.</p> <p>Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.</p> <p>Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.</p> <p>If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.</p> <p>You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.</p> <p>You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.</p> <p>Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.</p> <p>Or better yet, date a girl who writes.</p> <p>                                                                                                          – Rosemarie Urquico –</p> <p><a href="http://nonamerah.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/869/">http://nonamerah.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/869/</a></p></em>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/18829533820http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/18829533820Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:21:00 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ecnkDGHQ1qg8goro1_r2_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/18778896921http://jonathanwest.tumblr.com/post/18778896921Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:30:00 -0500