"Tell me are you getting hurt, is it worth it? Tell me are the people strange, did they change? Tell me are you letting go, do you know? I'll tell you the truth if you tell me the truth..."

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( Cutting stress, seeking balance, and having some good times. )

"Remembering when I saw your face
Shining my way
Pure timing

Now I've fallen in deep, slow silent sleep
It's killing me, I'm dying...

To put a little bit of sunshine in your life."

"If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and
Just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life."

Sometimes I hate myself.

161. The walls that won't come down we can decorate, or climb, or find some way to get around.

I love this weather. It makes me feel so real and clean and alive. I stopped on my way to classes and spread out my arms and just let the wind roar over me, purifying me in a shower of golden leaves and inevitable change. So cold, so pure, so good. I ( Read more... )

Last night I sat on the cold stones of the labyrinth and waited. I had not moved since randomly sitting down where the PSA-ers had been, and in their absence I had done nothing but close my eyes and kneed my fingers in the sand. The Earth, remembering the morning's rain, had slowly begun to leach the heat from my body, and I shivered. I opened my ( Read more... )

You know, I use the phrase "one of my best friends" fairly often. It occurred to me today, however, that I ought to think about who these people are ( Read more... )

I didn't want to admit it, but I really miss Oakland. A lot. So much that if I got the chance to move back there with Weifei and Barwick tomorrow, I would. It felt like home. I realized it was sacred at the time and I'm glad I appreciated it. But I can't help but miss my car right now, for I feel the need to go drive very far away.There is a lot of ( Read more... )

Blue skies. Radiant sunlight. A completely open day ( Read more... )