i'm soggy tonight. pissed off. went to Boston tonight to shoot the Boston Women's Memorial statues for class. got there, set up in the mist, got all of 3 shots, lost another 4-5 opportunities cuz those ppl saw my camera and walked around me, and then it began to pour like Noah just finished his ark this morning. i got soaked on my way home. ugh. ( Read more... )

woooo happy happy happy. i'm getting well again (i think. knock on wood). and today was the last day of class before break! so i have 2 days of work and then v-a-c-a-t-i-o-n! so excited to go xc skiing with Peter and stay at the farm again and have some quiet R&R time ( Read more... )

there are some stretches of land where it feels like no matter how hard you push yourself, no matter how much you strive to move more quickly, it seems like you're standing in place and getting nowhere fast.  i'm not talking about quicksand. no, this is more insidious. it's this trick of the mind where the ground and the horizon conspire to keep ( Read more... )

tectonic shifts
my own geography, topography
another San Andreas fault
slipping, sliding, pulling
never the same again

tectonic shifts
continents of class and work and play
fold, implode, expose, impose
and i will never be the same again

tectonic shifts
months collide with days
minutes grind against hours
and we will never be here again

Overheard at DF:

camper: Celeste, how old are you?
me: 21... why? how old did you think i was?
camper: 30
me: i'm about 9 years away. that's like your entire lifetime
camper: true but i haven't lived for very long

camper: will you still be a counselor when i'm a counselor? i want to work with you.

petals falling like snow littering the ground
my earrings are the sound of the spring shower
gently brushing my face
as i walk under a cover of light gray sky
intoxicated:
lilac blooms filling my nostrils with the breath of life
and i sigh

hey guys,

so i finally decided that i do need a separate blog for my social justice type thoughts. if you wanna read what i'm interested in, what's inspiring or disturbing me, or whatever...
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