lifelong resident

remember zell?














o gosh, i hope you do. he's just a sweet old man i met last january. it was by chance that i saw his big honkies (this is a word i made up - refer to link above).... and it was by total chance that i saw him again a couple days before halloween, outside of Savers (a local thrift store).














i saw him with his cart, after he went on a shopping spree buying....a LOT of stuff. we got a talkin a bit more and turns out he remembered me.


































and i found out a few tidbits about zell.

• he's now 71.
• he "loves" to shop
• he's retired
• he's lived in redwood city his whole life
• he was a janitor for most of his professional career
• he chose that path for the pension
• he bought a popcorn popper the day i took these pictures because he really needed it
• he doesn't use or have the internet because he doesn't want to complicate his life. (amen, brotha)
  
• &Zell really likes trinkets.

Check out his beautiful, story-full hands (and of course, a trinket that he bought).