Throwing Stones in a House of Glass
Is the name of my autobiography. In a roundabout way I've been writing it for years (and there is only other mention of it in my journal in 2004), and by this, what I mostly mean is that I have been naming chapters for years, as the words come to me. I picked the title when I was a wee child, watching an old black and white movie I've utterly forgotten the name of now.
It's about an affair that takes place, which breaks up the original marriage. Then the people having an affair (I think remarry?) are living together, when the child of the first two comes to live with them. With some odd circumstance revolving around why she came, having to do with a relationship he/she is in at the time. And there's a line like "We live in a house of glass, we won't (or don't?) throw stones." Anyone else remember anything like it?
Chapters that have been named over time, placing and certain reasons.
I. Past The Point of No Return (1998-2001)
Is my mid-late high school years, when my sister died.
The swell of Amtgard, the introduction of Brent, Josh, James, and Earl.
The height of my focus on music, both in school and church. There's an interlude in this one called Frozen/Angel.
It has much more to do with my high school nickname than Josh.
But both are important factors in it.
II. Entering New Braunfels (2001-2002)
This is the end of my teenage years, the end of Amtgard.
Earl's leaving. Kris, David, Jennifer and David's entrance.
And the beginning and end of my first wave of friendship with Christine.
The title which comes from a once in-joke about never seeing the Entering New Braunfel's sign, only the Leaving New Braunfels sign.
III. From The Ashes (2002-2005)
Obvious reference to both The Phoenix and Phoenix, himself.
My parents kicking me out. Moving in with Brinna, then Phoenix.
Discovering my love of school. The whole of my relationship with Phoenix. There are two interludes in this one.
The first Them. The second The Unicorn & Her Fool.
Both of these titles are indicative of their subject matter.
IV. Dear Roomies (late 2005/2006)
The return of Christine. The year spent living with her. Her exit.
The introduction and first year swell of Billy. Phoenix's death.
My grandmother's death and the second meeting of my brothers. Named after the filter created during the last six months of my living circumstances. It's birth, but it wouldn't leave entirely even once they moved away.
V. Is Unnamed as of Yet, covers 2007-2008
Two graduations. My middle two years with Billy.
My first two years living entirely alone.
The title floating around my head lately, the reasons I’m writing this now, is -- Getting Out to Get In. I'm uncertain at present if it means itself to be the name of the year I'm in, or the year I've just by passed. Korea fits all those footholds, and the words are so true from where I'm standing today, like seven or eight days since it popped into my head, the way these all do, but it only fits it in the retrospect from the outside.
But it is nowish. And I did. But it won't stop fluttering around in my head.
Somewhere between 2009 and 2010.
It's about an affair that takes place, which breaks up the original marriage. Then the people having an affair (I think remarry?) are living together, when the child of the first two comes to live with them. With some odd circumstance revolving around why she came, having to do with a relationship he/she is in at the time. And there's a line like "We live in a house of glass, we won't (or don't?) throw stones." Anyone else remember anything like it?
Chapters that have been named over time, placing and certain reasons.
I. Past The Point of No Return (1998-2001)
Is my mid-late high school years, when my sister died.
The swell of Amtgard, the introduction of Brent, Josh, James, and Earl.
The height of my focus on music, both in school and church. There's an interlude in this one called Frozen/Angel.
It has much more to do with my high school nickname than Josh.
But both are important factors in it.
II. Entering New Braunfels (2001-2002)
This is the end of my teenage years, the end of Amtgard.
Earl's leaving. Kris, David, Jennifer and David's entrance.
And the beginning and end of my first wave of friendship with Christine.
The title which comes from a once in-joke about never seeing the Entering New Braunfel's sign, only the Leaving New Braunfels sign.
III. From The Ashes (2002-2005)
Obvious reference to both The Phoenix and Phoenix, himself.
My parents kicking me out. Moving in with Brinna, then Phoenix.
Discovering my love of school. The whole of my relationship with Phoenix. There are two interludes in this one.
The first Them. The second The Unicorn & Her Fool.
Both of these titles are indicative of their subject matter.
IV. Dear Roomies (late 2005/2006)
The return of Christine. The year spent living with her. Her exit.
The introduction and first year swell of Billy. Phoenix's death.
My grandmother's death and the second meeting of my brothers. Named after the filter created during the last six months of my living circumstances. It's birth, but it wouldn't leave entirely even once they moved away.
V. Is Unnamed as of Yet, covers 2007-2008
Two graduations. My middle two years with Billy.
My first two years living entirely alone.
The title floating around my head lately, the reasons I’m writing this now, is -- Getting Out to Get In. I'm uncertain at present if it means itself to be the name of the year I'm in, or the year I've just by passed. Korea fits all those footholds, and the words are so true from where I'm standing today, like seven or eight days since it popped into my head, the way these all do, but it only fits it in the retrospect from the outside.
But it is nowish. And I did. But it won't stop fluttering around in my head.
Somewhere between 2009 and 2010.