Today I learned that I was officially divorced as of yesterday.

as I opened the email I was listening to Regina Spektor (it's such good stuff) and "Braille" came on and I resort, once again, to the slightly-adolescent habit of posting song lyrics to my journal...

She was tracing her years with her fingers on her skin ( Read more... )

title: The Gift ( Read more... )

"Dans la profondeur de l'hiver, j'ai finalement appris qu'il y avait en moi un soleil invincible." (Albert Camus ( Read more... )

this, by john o'donahue. yes, yes and yes. to you and you and you ( Read more... )

title: The Inheritance of Lossauthor: Kiran Desai ( Read more... )

hello, my livejournal lovelies, my delightful little spring chickens ( Read more... )

My heart is so small
it's almost invisible.
How can You place
such big sorrows in it?

"Look," He answered,
"your eyes are even smaller,
yet they behold the world."

~ Rumi ~

p.s. my nanowrimo username is "everydayislikesunday" if anybody else participating wants to add me. hopefully the nano site will stop being so slow soon.

Title: Housekeeping
Author: Marilynne Robinson
Pages: 219
Date finished: 10-4-07

I picked this up because I loved Robinson's more recent novel, GileadThis is the most beautiful book I've read in a long, long time. It's like an extended meditation on the transient nature of all things in this world, and it's just chock full of water (floods, ( Read more... )

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless ( Read more... )

And I will take what I need with me, I will not take what I don't
And I will say that I'll be back here but I'll know that I won't
And I will live with empty pockets, I will live with empty sleeves
And I will know that there is nothing in this world I cannot leave
And I will tell my friends I love them, I will just hope that they knowThat I need ( Read more... )