I had no idea who De La Vega was when I took this in 2004, but whenever I saw his work I was prompted to take a picture.  The writing on the wall was so unusual that I thought Vega must be a poet I hadn’t heard of.  Later his phrase was Become Your Dream.  He lives nearby, at least that’s what someone told me, which is probably why I stumble across his writing so often. Actually, this one is my favorites because of the twist: each one more livelier than the first. I puzzled over this for a while.  Why did he write, “livelier than the first” instead of “more lively than the first.”  It feels like poetry, in the sense of being mysterious, open to your own interpretation, and you can’t remove a word without ruining the effect.

It makes sense to me.  Both the idea of dying and being reborn – all in one lifetime; but that each death moves you forward in some mysterious way.  No, right now I don’t feel like part of the “walking dead” but I remember many times when I did feel like a part of that group.  And each time lead to another death, and another birth.