Happy new year Los Angeles! In 2017, JIMBO TIMES will not let you down.
J.T.
And for the record
What a Time
It’s a gorgeous morning in The City, and today feels like an especially good day to hang back and enjoy the breadth of the sky. It’s summertime, and we’re halfway through a year that’s felt much bigger than twelve months (in J.T. Time, that is).
This next August, JIMBO TIMES will enter its third year of production. It sounds wild, but it’s true! With each day that passes, the site gets bigger and better, and with everything that’s happened over the past two years, even the sky isn’t the limit during our next run under the sun!
Around this time last summer, I was getting ready to take a trip to Miami, and today I’m gearing up for another trip…this time to the city of Chicago in August!
I’d always wanted to spend some time in The Windy City, but had always found a way to postpone it, until the other day when a friend of mine just pushed me to finally book the damn thing, and I did!
Now, the L.A. Storyteller will know Chicago, and the people of J.T. are in for the ride, which I think is just the best celebration for our two-year anniversary.
The time before the trip, then, is a matter of organizing an amazing adventure there. I hope as many fans can support me in this, if not through direct ‘cheering on’, then through an organizing of their own trips out to somewhere new!
Each day the world surprises us somehow, so it’s only right for us to surprise the world right back.
And so, what are we waiting for then?! As we get another day today, let’s make it count, L.A!
J.T.
Oh My: Congrats Cav-Nation!
What a beautiful game…
This is a blog for L.A., but tonight we give a shout out to The People of Cleveland!
Home is where the heart is, and dedication is what makes it so beautiful.
From one hometown fan to the next!
J.T.
Felicidades!
What a pleasure it is to congratulate the raza’s class of 2016 at UCLA, which features –among others– the one and only Kim “Kalayaan” Mendoza!
Kalayaan’s ceremony brought a marvelous realization to mind: that there is an enormous transition taking place for the whole cast of people we recognize as The Community, or The People, or All of Us who are on this great road together.
Can you see it?! All around us there is change. All around us, there is a great transformation fluttering through the sky like the birds that dash past our windows or windshields in the morning.
In the blink of an eye, we are not a different people, but a people that have become –and are still– becoming the matter of a lifetime, and many lifetimes more.
At many points throughout the day, this becoming can be frightening; we not only find ourselves far and away from the people we once were, but we also feel far and away from the people we’re “supposed” to be.
But when we take a moment to look: at all of the birds, and all of the commuters, or — in this case — all of the graduates (of the class of 2016!) LIKE KALAYAAN, we find that the world is a beautiful continuum of change; no matter how much it appears to be the same, it’s actually different at each moment. Just like us. And it’s marvelous.
Even so, at points we’re not able to understand all this change, and our fear takes over, as fear took hold in Orlando this past weekend.
But love is still overcoming.
Love is the world, which we have the fortune not just to witness, but to contribute to. And love is everywhere, just waiting to be found and held up by our hearts.
As the days go on, at points it will become more difficult to hold on, but as the graduates can stand for their journey and everyone of their allies throughout it, we can stand up for our lives and our allies as well!
And we do stand up.
We stand up in open arms and ears for those mourning in Orlando, and for The People everywhere:
Because love is everywhere, and because this is it right here! This is it!
Thank you Kalayaan, and each and every other ‘me’,
J.T.
Feliz Cumpleaños, Tommy’s!
It was a dazzlingly beautiful day at the Rampart and Beverly intersection today, as the neighborhood celebrated the seventieth birthday of Tommy’s World Famous Burgers. Not wont to miss an opportunity to honor the crowd, the folks at Tommy’s brought out the Mariachi band, which of course brought out los danzantes!
L.A. looked magnificent, and I was so freakin’ proud.
When we honor the places we come from, the places we come from honor us right back. If this isn’t one of the greatest secrets about how to make the most of our time with the world, I don’t know what is!
J.T.