once upon a time there was a girl. and she grew up. and when she looked in the mirror, the little girl she once knew was hidden behind higher eyebrows and thicker lips and rounder cheeks and softer limbs but when she smiled, she could still see that little girl in her eyes. and when she saw that the little girl was still there she wanted to dance ( Read more... )

i want to take a time-elapsed photo of the moon. i want to go to the sidney dairy bar (i haven't been all summer!). i want to eat sweet corn dripping with butter with lindsey jane (because i always associate dripping corn and cowboy hats with her). i want to ride my bike. i want to drink long island iced tea with kristen and kaethe downtown. i want ( Read more... )

i had a thought ( Read more... )

what a busy week! and how many things to potentially go wrong! and yet, how blessed! i wake up early and roll out of bed, taking time to dance in front of the mirror when i am brushing my teeth and getting dressed. this weekend, at the potted meat show, we weren't sure we would have lights until 4 hours before the show when a man drove up and ( Read more... )

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BANDWAGON!!!!!!!! jump on it.

One little compliment can make you feel amazing ( Read more... )

jack johnson's new cd sounds like warm summertime and it makes me want to bite my lips, it makes me want to cry. i want to stretch out on my back on a hot wooden floor, in a tank top and a skirt and i want to just practice breathing, in and out and in again. i want to close my eyes and just think. i am listening to ani difranco and my insides feel ( Read more... )

there is nothing perfect about me. nothing at all. every once in awhile that gets me down a little. lately i have been reading and thinking and sighing and reading some more. i cracked open the ragamuffin gospel last night and started underlining furiously in thin pink lines because there are words in there that remind me that my imperfections are ( Read more... )

i am made for swallowing things and holding them deep down until they are dissolved and washed away. i am made for smiling after a thunderstorm and keeping my head tilted towards the sky so that i might catch the first sun ray in my eye. come what may, i am going to make the best of everything i can.