There's a long stream of things, as usual, that have lead me to this awesome present state. Age 28. Let's go backwards ( Read more... )

I'm not sure I know how to do this any more. I feel like I've given up on all my extracurricular thoughts... you know, the weird ones. I've developed more "healthy", mind-numbing habits like doing what I'm told ( Read more... )

City callouses for my Southern soul- My eyes won't open as wide to catch other cityeyes. On top of that, the snow has sat six inches high for a month... on the edges of the streets and sidewalks, it has become compacted, icy, and black. After walking over it safely so many times, you become mighty confident... until... well... you know ( Read more... )

Knowing what negative ten degrees feels like... and actually having endured the wait for the bus AND the train in it has allowed me to appreciate the warmth that can actually be found in the teens and twenties... I didn't think it was possible ( Read more... )

Double 0 steel wool ( Read more... )

50 lists left to go ( Read more... )

there's nowhere to start, there's everything to say ( Read more... )

my heart stops longer.
fighting for mornings
or a wind.

throwing my head back,
gasping for air and warmth.
battling with the sun for its time.
but every night down 167,
i feel the stars for you.
i count them for me.

i am sand.
you are water.
i can only sink to the bottom
or drift with you.

It's like learning a new language... a youme language. Whether or not to trust what your eyes say while your lips are moving. It's like having my internal radio turned up so loud that I cannot even remember last year. It's like those drives I used to take my first few years in college... trying to get lost and always finding my way back ( Read more... )

It's like kissing a strawberry in the spring... or sinking your teeth into a watermelon midsummer. It's sticky and I'm covered in it. You can't possibly imagine where I am now. I'm not going back, I'm staying here.

105 degrees and I'm totally ready for the uncertainty of fall.