if you were about to die and your life flashed before you, what memories would you remember? (or want to remember).

if it doesn't come bursting out of you ( Read more... )

"And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter--they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment, and companionship-but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self- ( Read more... )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARLA.

i want songs to cry to, to dance to, to quote in notebooks. list some of your very favorite songs! and i'll do the same, if you'd like.

what would you say in a letter to someone who's just been deployed to iraq?

Antilamentation by Dorianne Laux ( Read more... )

August is unfolding in simple ways:  sideways glances that make my skin crawl, the feeling of knowing how you appear to people and being so ashamed of it, missing someone, learning how weaknesses can sometimes be changed into strengths once you learn to control them, how everyone is lost in a way, of feeling like a small part of something-even if ( Read more... )

do any of you know the most amazing places in Chicago, IL or Cleveland, OH?

i feel like i could just fall asleep and never wake up again because there are so many pretty things running through my mind, and i have so many ambitions that i don't even know where to start.  when i am in moods like this, time slips between my fingers and i feel like i could just smile a mile wide all night long.  i want it all: sunsets, the ( Read more... )

the smallest details, like how you take your coffee and the words you've never said to anyone, are the contents of my late-night wonderings-of how you can collect all my doubts and throw them out the window.  i want the universe to recognize these conversations, and i want to understand.  you are the light, the inbetween, the glue to my shattered ( Read more... )