32 CHOICES | 2013 SPRING ISSUE
THE OPEN ROAD
Forty-two years ago , Kevin dreamt of riding across America on a motorcycle .
DELAYED
GRATIFICATION
We live in an age of now , where we must have that girl , that car , that jewelry in the time it takes a commercial to run . And while image is supposedly everything , what if it is leveraged and borrowed ? The image becomes a lie . id you know that eighty d percent of Americans can ’ t afford their Mercedes ? What they are driving is smoke and mirrors . We live in an age of now , where we must have that girl , that car , that jewelry in the time it takes a commercial to run . And while image is supposedly everything , what if it is leveraged and borrowed ? The image becomes a lie .
Decades ago , a friend and I built houses adjacent to one another . He thought our house would be too austere and told me , “ Your house needs to make a statement .”
I replied , “ My house is making a statement . It ’ s stating that this is what we can afford .”