They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it's only half true. Distance doesn't just make the heart sigh, it amplifies all feelings, and smothers them, all depending on when and how I choose to release them. It strengthens love, but it also hardens my gaze and my critique and see exactly how you've hurt me, how you've hurt so many of ( Read more... )

So, my friends, some of you will obviously be privy to these musicians, given
a) your proximity to them
b) your proximity to me in recent months
c) you are just a musical genius in general and Know These Things
but some of you will not.

And if you have not heard of them, then I implore you to at least have a bit of a listen. You might discover ( Read more... )

you and I.

We need them in our lives.

Our constant search for lights dancing between dark below

and dark above and

glowing overwhelming civilisation on either side.

We are the bridge between

two sides pulling apart, the bridge

gets a little longer every day

like a glacier slowly encroaching upon a valley.

We are the bridge across a ( Read more... )

Life changes too quickly to keep up with it on this blog.

Practically every day, I come back to type up something, and I'll have an unposted entry from a day or two earlier that seems now seems irrelevant or at least not representative of my current headspace.

Luckily, I don't think I've lost any important writing this way.

Here are some important ( Read more... )

slight personal 'dramaz' aside that i don't want to go into here, at least not now, (but i feel i should mention, so it doesn't sound like my life is entirely perfect), the last while has continued, as planned, in complete awesomeness. today is an example of a shining day of little things adding up to a day that made kayla and i both just kind of ( Read more... )

the needle that sings in her heart = amazing. amazing amazing ( Read more... )

i am going to do an ADIML tomorrow ( Read more... )

i feel like going to lower case again.

it's so much more train-of-thought-ish.

so, yesterday. my first day as a fake-new-yorker. it was epic.

i woke up, confused as to my location for a moment. i've had quite a few of those moments, these last few months. i chilled in my room. i remembered that i can actually use hulu and the fox on demand feature of ( Read more... )

I cried a tiny bit as the train pulled out from the station, and I looked back over the downtown area which was entirely grey, and didn't look like anything I should miss at all. But then the conductor made the announcement that he was coming through to collect tickets, so I stopped. I'm good like that.

It was kind of strange that it was so grey and ( Read more... )