May 20, 2003
all in good time
bruce kept telling me throughout the trip that after it is over, it will get better and better with time.
memory is a good editor, if not a biased one.
we made it to the indiana border on rt. 30 early sunday morning. i fell asleep in the car to the sound of the hazard lights and the occasional 18-wheeler passing by. we had pulled over in the ditch right in front of the 'Indiana Welcomes You' sign. bruce woke me up to help him with his flashes. it was cold and gray. i was standing in a patch of reeds that had spawned from a drainage ditch.
bruce looked up from behind his camera. "after this is over, it will get better and better with time," he said.
i yawned.
it is now tuesday night and i am busy organizing, duplicating and logging tapes. already i hear myself answering questions about the week to people:
"it was a great time."
"watching bruce is amazing."
"you wouldn't believe the stories bruce has."
an estimated 3,000 images were taken, over 15 hours of footage, about 1,000 miles, and 134 of 168 hours we were awake. and i doubt if Bruce would have stopped there.
i was unpacking my gear today. the road map was left open to the northwest ohio section. i retraced our journey. what used to be dots and lines on a map are now faces and places in my mind. and they will get better with time.
the speech we told people along the way became well-rehearsed. "we're working on a project called america 24-7. it's all about life in america for this particular week in time."
i didn't see america this week. i didn't even see all of ohio. but i did see a good part of life in america during this particular week in time. we were on main street in van wert saturday night, shooting the cruising strip. I had my eye buried in the viewfinder. two girls walked behind me:
"i don't see why they want to take pictures of van wert. van wert is so boring," one girl said to the other.
what qualifies as interesting, like beauty I suppose, is in the eye of the beholder. life is everywhere, if you choose to look at it. bruce is a good example of that.
it was a good week, and it will only get better and better with time.
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