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loving what is
This year is, so far, the most challenging year that I can remember. I've had challenging years in the past, and that's a euphemistic way of putting it when, before turning 22, I broke my bleeding heart apart in the harsh reality of post-Katrina New Orleans, and learned that getting sober can mean losing a few of your fair-weather friends. Or all ( Read more... ) -
in the ocean, when you can't see the shore
Like a kite with strings cut out below ( Read more... ) -
mirror
A clearing before a city surprises us in the wilderness. Threaded between stumps of old trees and ashes from long gone camp sites, a river rushes, carving a winding path. We wonder, will the water be good to drink here, this close to the city? Or maybe it would better serve another purpose. After many days on the road, we haven't seen ourselves ( Read more... ) -
potential
Change, vulnerability and connection: all the vital things that we both fear and desire. How this world changes when the mind shifts, when your eyes meet the horizon in a new way. How life has deepened, become both more colorful and more dark, become dangerous because of its power and its new island of sanctuary. How lost and free I get, ( Read more... ) -
5,000+ words
I've been posting my NaNoWriMo story updates to facebook because I thought they might draw more readers over there. Does anyone think I should keep tabs on livejournal too? It's kind of a Philip K. Dicksian story, but I came up with the idea for it 2 years ago before I read any of the man's books. I think it is easier to write now that I have ( Read more... ) -
hi friends!
Today I am 25 and I feel fabulous. In part, that is because I just had my hair cut for the invigorating price of $11 ( Read more... ) -
here we go.
School starts very soon. I'm feeling thankful that my birthday is also very soon, and comes before the deadline for tuition payments. Whew ( Read more... ) -
best response to the question
I forgot to mention the best line ever, taken from the Bollywood movie Qurbani:
"Are you drunk?!"
"No, I'm just hungover-- from love, friendship, and humanity!" -
send a letter to a monk, drink tea and resist infatuation
Hello last bastion of Bellingham livejournal friends, and everyone else who is hanging on to the online social network that didn't have a movie made about it, which is used for more than stalking and telling people what you just ate. Hello to you all ( Read more... ) -
divided against
Watched the last 2/3 or so of Fight Club, which I'd last seen 4 years ago or more, and really enjoyed it then. What a different experience this time, being critical of its raw masculine hatred, rather than enjoying it ( Read more... )