Today isn’t to be celebrated any more than any other day with the exception that it represents to others who are thinking about a way out of their tornado of shame that there exists a life where that over-pressurized piece of coal that is you will eventually transform into the diamond of liberty that you always deserved to be.
Amen.
It’s in moments like these that move me — our foreground assaults of any backdrop. It could be us then or us now, the kisses that create us. They are all at once sexy and smart and more stripped down than I’ve ever known us to be. You’re a force who demands the experience of deepening, and I thank my lucky stars that you chose me to want to share all this with. Fierce ain’t for everyone. Most people want their cake and their icing left at the back door and they don’t want you to knock too loud when you leave it. We are a more feral bunch. You can see it in our little girls, as they already embrace the dirt clod voices that are theirs and not the masquerading whispers of that weakest vocabulary word: etiquette. Kindness and the surety that every voice is unique and beautiful and worthy and has the capacity to sing becomes us.
We sing.
And we kiss.
And I celebrate
the pirate ship
that is you.
Love and foreverly.
Happy Anniversary.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@kathrynbrolin
It’s in moments like these that move me — our foreground assaults of any backdrop. It could be us then or us now, the kisses that create us. They are all at once sexy and smart and more stripped down than I’ve ever known us to be. You’re a force who demands the experience of deepening, and I thank my lucky stars that you chose me to want to share all this with. Fierce ain’t for everyone. Most people want their cake and their icing left at the back door and they don’t want you to knock too loud when you leave it. We are a more feral bunch. You can see it in our little girls, as they already embrace the dirt clod voices that are theirs and not the masquerading whispers of that weakest vocabulary word: etiquette. Kindness and the surety that every voice is unique and beautiful and worthy and has the capacity to sing becomes us.
We sing.
And we kiss.
And I celebrate
the pirate ship
that is you.
Love and foreverly.
Happy Anniversary.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@kathrynbrolin
It’s in moments like these that move me — our foreground assaults of any backdrop. It could be us then or us now, the kisses that create us. They are all at once sexy and smart and more stripped down than I’ve ever known us to be. You’re a force who demands the experience of deepening, and I thank my lucky stars that you chose me to want to share all this with. Fierce ain’t for everyone. Most people want their cake and their icing left at the back door and they don’t want you to knock too loud when you leave it. We are a more feral bunch. You can see it in our little girls, as they already embrace the dirt clod voices that are theirs and not the masquerading whispers of that weakest vocabulary word: etiquette. Kindness and the surety that every voice is unique and beautiful and worthy and has the capacity to sing becomes us.
We sing.
And we kiss.
And I celebrate
the pirate ship
that is you.
Love and foreverly.
Happy Anniversary.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@kathrynbrolin
It’s in moments like these that move me — our foreground assaults of any backdrop. It could be us then or us now, the kisses that create us. They are all at once sexy and smart and more stripped down than I’ve ever known us to be. You’re a force who demands the experience of deepening, and I thank my lucky stars that you chose me to want to share all this with. Fierce ain’t for everyone. Most people want their cake and their icing left at the back door and they don’t want you to knock too loud when you leave it. We are a more feral bunch. You can see it in our little girls, as they already embrace the dirt clod voices that are theirs and not the masquerading whispers of that weakest vocabulary word: etiquette. Kindness and the surety that every voice is unique and beautiful and worthy and has the capacity to sing becomes us.
We sing.
And we kiss.
And I celebrate
the pirate ship
that is you.
Love and foreverly.
Happy Anniversary.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@kathrynbrolin
It’s in moments like these that move me — our foreground assaults of any backdrop. It could be us then or us now, the kisses that create us. They are all at once sexy and smart and more stripped down than I’ve ever known us to be. You’re a force who demands the experience of deepening, and I thank my lucky stars that you chose me to want to share all this with. Fierce ain’t for everyone. Most people want their cake and their icing left at the back door and they don’t want you to knock too loud when you leave it. We are a more feral bunch. You can see it in our little girls, as they already embrace the dirt clod voices that are theirs and not the masquerading whispers of that weakest vocabulary word: etiquette. Kindness and the surety that every voice is unique and beautiful and worthy and has the capacity to sing becomes us.
We sing.
And we kiss.
And I celebrate
the pirate ship
that is you.
Love and foreverly.
Happy Anniversary.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@kathrynbrolin
It’s in moments like these that move me — our foreground assaults of any backdrop. It could be us then or us now, the kisses that create us. They are all at once sexy and smart and more stripped down than I’ve ever known us to be. You’re a force who demands the experience of deepening, and I thank my lucky stars that you chose me to want to share all this with. Fierce ain’t for everyone. Most people want their cake and their icing left at the back door and they don’t want you to knock too loud when you leave it. We are a more feral bunch. You can see it in our little girls, as they already embrace the dirt clod voices that are theirs and not the masquerading whispers of that weakest vocabulary word: etiquette. Kindness and the surety that every voice is unique and beautiful and worthy and has the capacity to sing becomes us.
We sing.
And we kiss.
And I celebrate
the pirate ship
that is you.
Love and foreverly.
Happy Anniversary.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@kathrynbrolin
It’s in moments like these that move me — our foreground assaults of any backdrop. It could be us then or us now, the kisses that create us. They are all at once sexy and smart and more stripped down than I’ve ever known us to be. You’re a force who demands the experience of deepening, and I thank my lucky stars that you chose me to want to share all this with. Fierce ain’t for everyone. Most people want their cake and their icing left at the back door and they don’t want you to knock too loud when you leave it. We are a more feral bunch. You can see it in our little girls, as they already embrace the dirt clod voices that are theirs and not the masquerading whispers of that weakest vocabulary word: etiquette. Kindness and the surety that every voice is unique and beautiful and worthy and has the capacity to sing becomes us.
We sing.
And we kiss.
And I celebrate
the pirate ship
that is you.
Love and foreverly.
Happy Anniversary.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@kathrynbrolin
Swiftly we navigated the streets of Inglewood to what would be the first time for all of us seeing the wholesome presentation (stricken with dollops of mischief and misfit) of farm girl Swift. Swiftly we entered Sofi Stadium and swiftly did we apply — given from glitter-clad fans galore — friendship bracelets. Swiftly after @haimtheband played came the glitter queen herself all long-stepped and hair tossed and gave us the spectacular three hour show that happily frenzied children and tickled sunshine into adults. The beautiful badassery of this woman sings. I like it for my daughters. She’s catchy yet strong; sexy yet not crass; and very obviously sharp beyond her lack of threat. Kudos Swizzle (and thank you Lindsay!)! @taylorswift @kathrynbrolin
Tomorrow I’m releasing a video of teaser readings from various books written by John Steinbeck. All this is for is to snap the mind current, sand it Californian, and honor those who display a mastodon talent throughout their creative careers. That, and to remind people how important taking the time to read is. Merry Christmas. I hope you enjoy it.
🎅🧑🎄🤶🤶🤶🤶🎄🙏
@steinbeckcenter
Dreams. @directorsguild
My little Eden. ❤️❤️❤️
@edenbrolin @weareattaboy
The Edge… There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there.
Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels
Photo by @brianbowensmith #bbsdrivebys
Back in the day there were moments that backed into buildings, threw down walls and ran over unseen varmints.
… but in the end the precious present of your best self is when celebrating others. There is no ‘better than’ than that and there is no work that parallels. I want to be remembered (if there is such a memory) for the short time that I’ll be remembered by my family: that I loved hard; that I preferred them; and that I was selfless enough to let them go and live a life and not make them feel that they have to take care of me in return for my total adoration of them. There is no sacrifice. It’s an honor to parent a child. It’s hard and messy and challenges the self like no other action. But the reward is that child who might grow up and look at you in the eyes and say “I love you, Papa. You’re a great Papa.” Forget it. Done.
Parenting is an honor, and it’s not for the fools who think that they are working so hard for their children’s future outside of simply being able to provide some basic opportunities for them. Parenting is a fiery, chaotic, sandbox based heaven. The feral soil of Scotland says so.
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
I have a colostomy bag
And so do you!!!
#halloweengeriatrics
I went there last night, turned off the lights, and stared at the moon for much longer than I thought I would have. My feet are cold and my face is numb. A ring around the moon reminds me of years ago when I’d stare at it as a child in awe. How does that ring form? Then I think of my children, all four of them, and each moment so far with their laughter and their tears and their song and their dance. Why do get to be here, while others don’t? I feel like a window that separates like from like. I feel like a tree shedding what is no longer needs, a reset. I feel under this sky with this moon like a visitor who suddenly knows that it ain’t forever, for forever.
Jet lag
It isn’t a Sunday but the bells keep ringing. It’s dark but for the street lamps along the shore and the four-hundred year old church on the hill lit from below. Her tiny hand is enveloped by mine, and what ensues is a gross misunderstanding of relationship: “When I grow up, I mean a long time from now, when I get married, I want to marry Papa.” She squeezes my hand re-instigating a game we’ve created based somewhere between Morse code and the memory game: she’s squeezes once, I squeeze once; she squeezes three times, I squeeze three times, and so on.
On our way up ancient stairs with two cats waiting at the top, an obstacle course playground to the left. We walk over together. She grabs the rope, walks the balance beam smiling, climbs from the ground floor playhouse through the hole to the second floor, and lifts up here arms in victory.
We walk into the hotel room, sister and Mama in tow, close the door, turn on the the Dora soundtrack and dance long after the whole village has gone to sleep.
Reading Steinbeck. Part 1 of 3 of my friends reading words that resonate in the personal. I was asked to do a reading by @steinbeckcenter for their Young Writer’s program awards and I thought why not more. Most of John Steinbeck’s work takes place close to where I grew up. It’s personal and I’ve been feeling more and more that we are getting away from what is personal and what is communal.
I hope you enjoy this teaser of readings. I am so grateful to all who participated. Thank you.
Edited by @alexcampos.filmtv
Readers:
Charles Murray
Hilary Swank @hilaryswank
Giovanni Ribisi
Eden Brolin @edenbrolin
Tim Robbins @timrobbinshere
Austin Butler @austinbutler
Jack Black @jackblack
Kaia Gerber @kaiagerber
Shia LaBeouf
Kathryn Brolin @kathrynbrolin
Johnny Knoxville @JohnnyKnoxville
Kiefer Sutherland @KieferSutherland
Don Cheadle @doncheadle
Robert Patrick @ripfighter
Imogen Poots @impoots
Dave Bautista @davebautista
Brendan Fraser
Josh Brolin @joshbrolin
Beauty is a time is a feeling is an era is a hiccup is a surprise is a viscera is an animal is a soul softener is a birth is a death is being assaulted by a sky with no moon out in the middle of a vast and unkept field under a spattering of stars who all are whispering something we all need to hear.
Chapel Grace. ❤️💎
📷 by @kathrynbrolin
New episode of @hawkvswolf and boy do we gotta guest this week!
The one and only @joshbrolin !!
Josh and both have something’s in common and one of them is that we both love @tobymorse 😊❤️
READING STEINBECK (PART 2)
Friends coming together because of the power of the quintessential American written word. Coming together for a common goal — to see through a window of the personal and, ultimately, experience compassion, then, finally, community.
Thank you to all who participated.
Edited by alexcampos.filmtv
@steinbeckcenter
Readers:
David Choe @davidchoe
Adam Rodriguez @adamrodriguez
Lili Taylor @lilitaylor
Garrett Hedlund @garretthedlund
Mel Gibson
Isabela Merced @isabelamerced
Scott Avett @scottavett
James Brolin @jamesbrolin_
Kelly Clarkson @kellyclarkson
Anthony Zerbe
Dierks Bentley @dierksbentley
Josh Brolin @joshbrolin
