i fell in love with a stranger at the bus stop ( Read more... )

i've returned home after being away for 10 days. being away that long is rough. staying away in a hotel room for 6 nights is rough. unless you're in paris. then no number of days in a hotel are ever enough. but anywhere else...6 days is too long. my cats are grateful that i'm home, and i'm grateful to have them here, loving me. unconditionally. i'm ( Read more... )

I've installed an eljay client on my phone and am wondering if I'll write more because of it.

I've been immersing myself in more art lately, and I've figured a way to transfer my own photos to canvas and paint them. Thanks to mcmatz. She gave me the magic potion. I also may have purchased a used version of my old camera, which I adored and have missed ( Read more... )

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so there is a job i want to apply for, that i think i'd be perfect for, but it requires a writing sample ( Read more... )

one of my favorite half poems was written by sappho. i say half poem because more than likely, there was once more to it. and i am devastated when i think about what else she wrote that was totally destroyed. beautiful, beautiful, tangled words, making love to one another.

It seems to me that man is equal to the gods ( Read more... )

(posting mostly for myself, so i can remember ( Read more... )

"A Litany for Survival"

For those of us who live at the shoreline

standing upon the constant edges of decision

crucial and alone

for those of us who cannot indulge

the passing dreams of choice

who love in doorways coming and goingin the hours between dawns ( Read more... )

*--Pablo Neruda. ...it's true. i want to do that to you. just to you. i will not say your name. not even when i'm alone. not even to myself. not even in a whisper. if i don't say your name, if i keep you in the recesses of my brain, nothing i feel actually exists. and i am too frightened to have feelings...there is no room in my life for feelings ( Read more... )