listening to this song makes me miss people across entire continents. in case you didn't know, i switched back to intothelight,
and it's seventy-eight degrees in monmouth, illinois, at 9:43 pm.

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yeah, i don't know either. xxx

(i wanted to p.s. here: i feel like i really couldn't say enough about the boy with the biggest blue eyes and the softest dark hair. because, because, because what can i say that won't make me tear up here at 8:40, three and a half hours away from his skinny self? we make lists of things to do and we don't follow them; instead, we go on starlit ( Read more... )

back at school, everyone's windows are open and both girls living in this room 325 have shorter hair. everywhere, doors are propped open and windows are letting in the cool air from outside, and the air even smells different; it's the same smell that was soaked into my skin every day for the past week: dirt and sunshine and wind and the smell of ( Read more... )

craving: heat. mix tapes after sunset. making out on the couch in a bikini & a tank top, like that time after the county fair. fruit with centers, fruit with seeds. breathlessness. the stars through your sunroof. whispering because it makes the air seem cooler. late-night barefoot walks. falling into rivers. swinging on the playground all ( Read more... )

life, awake before nine o'clock and showered and pigtailed and jumping onto a futon to wake your sisters up, saying it's time to wake up now, time to get up. life, holding hands and praying around a table in a restaurant that feels like family, then digging into breakfasts like strawberry pancakes and a chocolate milkshake. praying let us be ( Read more... )

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there have been, for three days, people coming and people going. there is brian, and hillary, and eric, and zach, all sleeping in my room, and when they first arrive i am in my sock feet and when we get to the elevator i turn around and it's like they just developed out of thin air; i see them as a group and i feel thrilled, my heart rises like the ( Read more... )