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hi
i am frequently guilty of having huge friend crushes on people in my acquaintance rainbow and doing nothing about it at all.
i currently have a super friend crush on lady bird in my a & p class.  unlike most we are going to be friends, we have no choice.  she is amazing.  the 34 year old single mother of 2 teenagers that works/schools/mother/sings ( Read more... )

the rain, it comes down. 
it just keeps coming down.  i asked for it really.  i require it to maintain enough focus to finish the quarter off with a bang. 
i asked for rain and all of the thunder and lightening storms of the east coast summer heard me and paraded out here en mass.  i appreciate that they are listening and understand how much i miss ( Read more... )

for the past couple of days i have been kindof regretting my return to lj because there have been pretty much no posts popping up on my friends page.....turns out i just haven't been signed in.  i am happy to see little tidbits getting added and i am, once again, happy to be here ( Read more... )

i've spent so much time swallowing my family down deep beneath the soft folds of my belly.  sometimes i think maybe i have swallowed so much that my throat stings with the sugar and flower petals in the wind that i have withheld from myself.  my chest swells with the desire to let go, burst into flames and leave myself ravaged.  to place myself ( Read more... )

portland has been seeing some serious rain in the last couple of days.....not the fake kind that wafts down in a quiet gray kind of way, but the torrential kind that warns us first with a gust of humidity and flower petals before it beats down upon our houses!

dear livejournal,
i am not sure why i ever left you for the lesser fb.....but i am home.  thanks for taking me back!

i felt you in my dna today and it made me feel proud and strong. through the tumult and the wind, i have been anchored to your rock within me.  it helps me to understand better how i weather and remain tall.  i come from trouble and that trouble has sickened my family.  i have to wonder how i have made it to the other side of the storm, close ( Read more... )

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so cute <3!