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I'm struggling with the annual Throne Speech for weeks now, and looking back over previous years' entries isn't helping at all, other than to trace the path of wanton destruction across the better part of a decade now (yeah, March 2013 will mark my TEN YEAR anniversary on LJ; kinda snuck up on me, too ( Read more... )

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i'm not sure if it was the howling wind, the pounding rain, or the growl of thunder that woke me early this morning before 7 (and wow, but that's some *serious* wind), so here i am with some time to kill before i even think of putting coffee on. i might make out the sunrise through storm-lashed front windows, eventually, but mostly i'm keeping my ( Read more... )

...i take it as cosmic (or possibly karmic) indication that perhaps this year doesn't need one. it's been a year of incredible highs and impossible lows, big things shared and unshared. if pain and love are in equal parts what define us, i am feeling incredibly well-defined on this last day of 2007.

amo, ergo sum.

be excellent to each other.

I think I'm ready to give up the hope that I will ever have what other people might casually refer to as a "normal" year, a year in which little of note happens, no boats are rocked, no groundswells of self-enlightenment happen, and there are no earth-shattering kabooms lurking around every departure from the safety of my house. In being an ( Read more... )