Happy New Year 2009

looking back.

Photos by Rachel B. Baxter

Thrift store jacket,
natural hair ironed straight,
chandelier earrings
and beads.

Neighborhood bar,
carpet on the floor,
beer and shots,
and disagreements.

Happy New Year 2009,
Lincoln park and Lakeview
and Roscoe Village,
Chicago winter —

The life I choose.