Bryan

Afterword

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

Notes Photography

Bluesky Mastodon Threads

I visited the house in Glen Park that my great-grandmother Louise rented in the 1950s and ’60s, after she left Detroit and separated from my great-grandfather Silvio. In the 1960s, my grandmother also lived there with her kids—my dad and my aunt—after her husband left her.

A light lavender house with plants in front sits on a steep street.A residential neighborhood is set against a backdrop of sprawling cityscape and distant hills under a partly cloudy sky.Tall, spiky plants stand in the foreground with a scenic view of a suburban area and distant hills in the background.A residential street corner features a yellow building with an orange garage, surrounded by trees and colorful shrubs.A quiet neighborhood street with colorful houses, stop signs, and distant hills under a clear sky.Red succulents are growing between the sidewalk and a curb with a yellow tactile paving surface.


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Bryan is an urban planner, musician, writer, husband and father. He lives with his wife and two young kids in Portland where he enjoys sampling the region's food scene and exploring the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest.



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