Yesterday night I posted a picture of the view of one of my...

This is a scenic shot of one of my granite customers in the Bahamas.

It made me realize that our work lives are a small portion of why we’re here on this planet.  Many people would trade the fifty years in the system for a few short years living on an island paradise eating grapes.

Hopefully in our lives, we’ll all have the opportunity to sample both at one time or another.

I miss the Bahamas so much. I’d love to just live there forever. I will go back to Atlantis one day!

Yesterday night I posted a picture of the view of one of my client’s houses in Nassau in the Bahamas. 

Later the next day, we found that one of his employees had been taken to jail for possessing a gun.  He was 19 years old and as we drove up to the worker’s driveway I had a sinking feeling.

We sat and drank tea with his mother while Indian music blasted behind us.  Without his work she would not be able to survive.  The money we dropped off, which I originally thought was “bail money” was actually to bribe the sheriff to let him go.

Outside no less than a dozen young kids played while eating from closed-cell extruded polystyrene foam containers.

His worker was out of jail by the end of lunch time.

Palm on Flickr.

I just got back today from one of the highlights of my summer now, the bahamas celebration cruise for my grandparents 40th anniversary. It was great seeing them on vacation as they never do (because they had 3 dogs and now only one but their dog has all sorts of problems and isn’t friendly at all), I mean they last time they went anywhere together was for my parents wedding which was 15 years ago. But I could see they were really excited and had a lot of fun and I’m really happy for them. On first day we didn’t leave for the Bahamas until 5 or 6. I hung out with my family until about 10 or 11 and it was so great because these two attractive guys (stephen and tyler,both from Arkansas) who looked close to my age passed by and said “Hey”

and I was all like 

and then they turned around the corner and I was like welp, never gonna find them again. If you have ever been on a cruise then you know that they usually have “teen/kids clubs”,where you meet other kids and hangout. Well, I didn’t really have the confidence to go in there so I passed by it about 3 times before taking up the courage to go in and honestly; I’m so glad I did. Within next couple of seconds I saw those two guys from earlier and made friends with them and three other people as well ( Faith from Arkansas, Courtney and Courtney’s little brother who’s name i never caught from Indiana). Then within the next couple of minutes we all went to get pizza and ran around the boat. Before I knew it we all were friends, I met another person (Isiah from Ohio) and two other black guys ( which one, I might add, was a really great dancer), 2 guys were interested in me, Stephen got some with Courtney, Everyone thought me and Isiah did stuff ( which we did Not), Tyler was pissed because me and Isiah spent a really long time together, and the last ones up at the end of the night were me and Tyler. We stayed up till 5 Am and were gonna watch the sunset but then my mom came up and freaked out because she didn’t know where I was. But overall the first day/night was fun. I made friends, sunbathed, drank a little, ran around, had some deep conversations and at the end of the two found out that 2 guys liked me.

Now I bid you adieu considering it’s 4 Am and I’m probably going to pass out while watching Arrested Development. Tomorrow I will write about the second and third day of the cruise

xx

I just finished directing the post-production for Silver Series, Invisible Children’s

soon-to-be-released string of live performances with musicians from SXSW 2011.

Featuring renditions from Memoryhouse, Guards, Bahamas, Sun Airway, and more…

But, he still makes sculptures and sterling silver jewelry..

Bahamas by Salvatore Serafino on Flickr.

Someone take me here! haha