the many crowns of ophelia

Jun 16, 2007 01:51

in response to dom's post, which was, in turn, a response to katia's post.

i will tell you a story.

there's a girl. (maybe she's a boy. she could be a boy. she could be anybody. she could be everybody. maybe she already is)

she loves. she drowns. she rises. she is the lost girl (or boy), the broken one, who exists in all of us. she is crying in a ( Read more... )

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Re: a chain of comment posts. katiaguzzardi June 16 2007, 18:19:58 UTC
*sighs* You guys are some of the best friends I will ever have, your words mean more to me than all the stars in the sky.
We understand each other on so many different levels. While we all have aspects that make each one of us special we still all have something in us that is the same.
your chain of posts and comments is causing me to *tear up* I love you guys

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Re: a chain of comment posts. chenanigan June 17 2007, 01:26:11 UTC
it is that whole idea of kinship again, isn't it? kindred spirits. compassion. empathy. the one true Heart. whatever words you want to use for it, they're all "different names for the same thing".

we're all made of the same stuff, in the end. and it's the same spirit moving through all of us.

i thought of a beautiful story the other day. it's about a group of people who decide to run off a cliff to escape the madness of the world. as one, they make that final and inevitable leap - but then the world turns upside down, and they find that instead of falling to the earth or the ocean below, they are falling through the blue of the sky, and into the cloudy arms of the sky herself.

we will all be safe.

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Re: a chain of comment posts. katiaguzzardi June 17 2007, 01:56:21 UTC
Chen....can I send you my essay tomorrow and can you edit it online....like highlite crap and grammar wise..but in a diff color? pretty please....i will bring you something fantastical!!

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