Love for Uma, Waiting for Uma, Graffitti for Uma (a.k.a. a whole buncha photos)

I'm posting a bunch of photos, some of these are photos I've been meaning to post for a while and some are new, but they are all for Uma. I'm gonna split them up into three sections.

LOVE FOR UMA:

WAITING FOR UMA:

(the following photos were all taken while I was in New York, I'm not sure of the dates of any of them, they were all taken by my cell phone and I finally emailed them to myself so I could post them)

These first few photos are of Sladiee and Elman, their mom Linda is in the hospital bed diagonally across from Uma's bed. Linda also had a brain aneurysm burst--about ten days after Uma did--and she's going through pretty much the same thing that Uma's going through.

This is Sladiee:

This is me and Sladiee:

This is Elman:

This is Elman, refusing to pose for a photo. He doesn't realize it, but this photo is SUCH an Uma photo. I seriously have dozens of photos of Uma running away from my camera, trying to block the photo with her hand. It is SO classic Uma:

We spent a lot of time with Sladiee and Elman in the waiting room and really bonded with them and I think about them every day. Next time you say a prayer for Uma, please say a prayer for their mom Linda too. Sladiee is a stage manager and every day I visualize writing a play, that Uma acts in, that Sladie stage manages, that John composes music for, and that Linda and Elman fly out to see, and we're all healthy and happy and following our dreams.

This next photo is John and his brother Wayne. Wayne is an awesome man. John's an awesome man too. Their parents should be fucking proud. I think this photo was taken on one of my last day's in New York, Marie and I had gone out on a McDonald's run and we bought way too much McDonald's for human consumption. Yet everything was consumed.

The next three photos are from one random night when we all took a break from the waiting room to go get some dinner at this random restaurant around the corner that served WAY TOO MUCH food, and none of us finished anything, and we all took home leftovers, but I don't think any of our leftovers got eaten. This first photo is John making a funny "I'm trying to decide what I want to order" face:

This is Ken, eating an enormous ice cream sundae that, inexplicably, none of us would help him finish:

This is Uma's dad, Nithi. I really like this photo. Nithi reminds me of Uma in a lot of ways. He's got a great laugh:

The next two photos are of John and Nithi, chatting in the waiting room:

Okay, this next photo is Marie and Erica and I swear they are texting EACH OTHER:

This is me writing an Uma update on the 10th floor:

GRAFFITTI FOR UMA: (I love all of the graffitti so much) (it's so fucking cool) (one of Erica's friends saw a piece of Uma graffitti, totally randomly) (how cool is that?) (like I said, fucking cool, that's how cool) (keep it up)