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my grandmother's new years resolutions
-Find the time to be kind and thoughtful. All of us have the same allotment: 24 hours a day ( Read more... ) -
scared.
I am so scared of everything right now ( Read more... ) -
take to heart: advice from a friend.
i get the feeling from you that you are searching in lots of ways right now. i haven't had time to talk with you about this, and this may be way out of line, but let it come, abi. -
that's what they [?] said: sex in the park
this morning I had brunch with michael at the celtic knot and we took a long walk by the lake and had an intellectual conversation about sex ( Read more... ) -
helplessness blues, fleet foxes
I was raised up believing ( Read more... ) -
twenty eleven
Tonight clouds crowd together as if huddling to warm themselves on the light from the moon. I drive home late after I close up the coffee shop, sit on boulders at an Evanston beach with Nathan, a lanky, quiet, alley cat of a friend, all angles and bone. As I talk more his silence responds. A sure quiet. One that could calm tempers, plant fields, or ( Read more... ) -
oh-tow: a list of 8.
1. I'm in Lucca and it's beautiful. winding roads. walls around the city from times when they needed to defend themselves from more than tourists. delicious bread and cafe for breakfast ( Read more... ) -
italy: rome
Today I wake up in a foreign country at two in the morning Chicago time to my mother telling me where the keys are before she goes to teach a class. I wake up, incredibly groggy, change into the thrift store dress I bought last week, take a swig of milk from the refrigerator, and walk outside. It is hot. 80 degrees when I begin walking sinistra ( ( Read more... ) -
skydiving, fireworks, italy, etc.
On Thursday night I wrote my final research paper for my online summer class in a blackout with my roommate asleep among candles in the chair next to me. Brandon called and we had a rousing discussion about educational policy and identity/authenticity in theater before I brought up emotional issues between us and we broiled one another like fish ( Read more... ) -
check in and strangers
where my mind is at ( Read more... )