September 2010
1 post
“Here we are, she thought, At the edge of the world, the very edge of western...”
December 2009
8 posts
Thank god this year is over tomorrow. I just wish I could sleep through the last day.
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“Just like a faucet that leaks,
there is comfort in the sound.”
"Run like a race for family when you hear like...
Just arrived in Miami for the holidays. Even though I was just here for Thanksgiving I feel like I haven’t been this eager to be with my family in a very, very long time.
Beauty in the breakdown?
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“I’d like to close my eyes and go numb
but there’s a cold wind...”
"all they are is dust in the wind"
I feel like my life is in limbo right now.
November 2009
5 posts
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“I don’t care if you weigh me down to the bottom of the ocean, you are...”
– The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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I know you have a heavy heart, I can feel it when...
Just saw “Up”. Pixar never fails to amaze.
I want to feel as light as Mr. Fredrickson when he empties his house and floats away.
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“You are not the sun,
you are not the sun,
you are not the sun.”
you ruined my day and you are not the least bit aware of it.
i hate you for it.
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October 2009
11 posts
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“I’m used to your absence, your faceless distraction.”
– Eyes as Candles
Room, you will be missed.
1 tag
Salvation a la mode, and a cup of tea
Disappointment, after disappointment, after disappointment.
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“With One’s Heart In One’s Mouth”
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“draped across your tangled flesh and bones your taste is all I know”
With the wind at my back I don't ever even bat an...
One of the reasons I enjoy running so much is because it is like a little microcosm of life. You start off with all the energy in the world and there are even days that you whisp through to the last mile. But more often, there are days where those last miles are a struggle - that moment where you think you might just stop. That is the most important moment. That is the moment where your true...
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“You come beating like moth’s wings, spastic and violently
whipping me...”
– “Moth’s Wings”
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“Autumn blew the quilt right off the perfect bed she made”
– It’s cold again. But I can’t complain yet. I love the fall and if I am lucky enough to get into my study abroad program, I will be basking away in Barcelona during the coldest months of the winter.
September 2009
14 posts
“everything that i own
starts to pile up like bones”
– “Bed”
Brand New
Fitting, as I clean out, discard, recycle all the crap I have acquired throughout the years.
The reality of moving out of my house is hitting me really hard. God I am going to miss my room.
Tim Burton's Magical Fashion - Harper's Bazaar Oct... →
A-mazing.
hunsonisgroovy:
Iron And Wine - Peace Beneath the...
“In a way it’s making me crazy,
in the sense that it’s making me...”
– Eisley
Ten Cent Blues
As predicted, 21 is pretty anticlimactic.
Bittersweet
My 21st birthday is on Friday. Excited? Sure, for obvious reasons (no more lying about my identity!). But I am also devastated because the people I would most like to share it with won’t be here. It will also be my last exciting birthday. I’m pretty sure it’s all downhill from here. Next milestone…40! fuck.
Murderer
“Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last...
“Blue lips,
blue veins.
Blue,
the color of our planet
from far, far away.”
“It’s like forgetting the words to your favorite song”
– “Eet”
"My thoughts were so loud, I couldn't hear my...
My first attempt to go to sleep last night began at around 1am. Soon thereafter, I found myself still wide awake but with my eyes tightly shut so as to somehow trick my body into falling asleep. It didn’t work. My thoughts were rushing in at the speed of light. It felt as though someone hit fast forward in my brain and I could suddenly hear all my thoughts rush together, in a fast, high...
August 2009
2 posts
The Science of Clumsiness
I think the fact that I am clumsy means that I not only do clumsy things but that I also somehow attract catastrophe. I am like a magnet of clumsiness.
To exemplify my point-
Sunday was a series of spilling and dropping things during lunch, walking IN through the automatic “out” door, thinking I lost my phone only to realize that I had thrown it out in the kitchen garbage, running...
July, She Will Fly
Today I say goodbye to my parents for the last time before their journey back to Miami. I will be on my own for the first time ever and I am consumed with all kinds of feelings. Anxiety, nervousness, excitement, fear, sadness, happiness, curiousity, awe……….I didn’t know it was humanly possible to possess all these emotions, simultaneously.
I often wish I had some type of...
July 2009
1 post
I was teaching a 1st grade program yesterday and was describing to them how when a hermit crab changes its shell for a bigger shell it is similar to when they outgrow their own clothes. As I was explaining this, an adorable, chubby little black girl chimes in and says “yeah, that happens to me a lot”.
It was probably the most honest, precious comment I have heard in a while.
May 2009
5 posts
My time here is coming to an end. I wish I had kept a better account of my days, but, cest la vie. Here are just a few things I have learned, in no particular order…
1. Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Eagles and other rock legends are not exclusive to western civilization.
2. My fear of growing old has been lessened after getting to know numerous “mature” individuals who seem to...
Immediately after being picked up from the airport, I am taken to what is probably one of the only organic/vegetarian stores in Bogota. Naturally, my dear mother had made it known to, literally, everyone and their mother that I am a vegetarian. In all sincerity though, this time I am thankful for my mom’s tendency to over share- it avoided all the awkward times I would have had to say “I’m sorry,...
I write from mid air of my flight to Colombia. I just woke up from a series of catnaps, disheveled but slightly refreshed. I spent the majority of the flight sleeping as my restless mind last night only let me get about an hour of sleep before having to get up at 4 a.m. The flight has been pretty smooth…and I even got two seats for myself. But I’m starved. I have not eaten a thing because both of...
March 2009
4 posts
“we’re yelling, “someone’s got the answers,
but i’d...”
– “I Can Barely Breathe”
Manchester Orchestra
"...when there's nothing at all you can say"
Today was a series of coincidental events. Or perhaps they were not so much coincidental, but complementary, as they all helped me see a bigger picture during the latter of the day. First, I woke up with an urge to listen to one of my favorite songs of all time, “Samba Pa Ti” by no other than, Santana. I’m so in love with this song. It has absolutely no words, yet says...
