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hellogoodbye ( Read more... )

it's one of my friends' birthday today. she's going through a break up, and as is almost always the case with the hurt, she seemed a shadow of herself today. it was like looking at a blurry picture of her. i reached out, stroked her shoulder, and was surprised when i made contact with actual skin ( Read more... )

i was out getting coffee early this morning when i looked up, at the sky, and just as my eyes locked on the sun, this little thought bit into my head--took a huge chunk, is more like it--and for a moment i realized... this is gonna be the same sun i'll be looking at a few months from now ( Read more... )

someone i do not know is running in afghanistan, ducking bullets, telling himself to keep his eyes open as beads of sweat sneak in there. some are older than me, and some of them, i am sure, are younger than me. but they will come back walking like seventy-year-old men ( Read more... )

it blows my mind sometimes, this life ( Read more... )

so. the eve of my final semester of college approaches ( Read more... )

what a year ( Read more... )

in a song, there's a coda, a final movement. there are different ways for a song to finish, much like a life, or a semester of college--a slow fade out, or a sudden end ( Read more... )

so i have been here for four years, on this campus. i just walked past the receiving dock, where so many events have been held, and a strong damn gust of wind blew across me--through me--and i saw the ghosts of all these memories i've made there. those homecomings, rockfests, all those people i was in love with, all those people i met, those people ( Read more... )