Bill In Front of the Tool Shed

Bill In Front of the Tool Shed, originally uploaded by RumAli.

And so the visit with Bill ended last night at a restaurant/bar up the street. In a table populated by a bunch of friends and colleagues from the University, I sat furthest away from my old pal, content to talk with others, content to see every him interacting with Sarah and Polina.

It's been such a long time since we had that conversation in some random party in Chicago about the nature of success. He was on one of his film tours, and I was still in school. Have things changed? I made the proclamation soon after that the nature of success didn't depend on being free from debt, or from being in relationship, or from renting.