A submission from John Cale

I see myself as a hermit crab in the way I am shedding my previous shell for one that is more befitting. What I mean by shedding my previous shell is that I completely left my former life in LA. Words my ex girlfriend said to me will always stagnate in my mind, “you’re leaving everyone that loves and cares about you”. I really left everything behind because I felt I was being suffocated, I left my family, a loving girlfriend, good trusting friends. I was really growing out of my shell and of course I was lonely and scared when I left but it’s been 9 months and the Bay Area is really starting to fit nicely as my new shell.

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