I thought I should put up photos, every now and again . . . didn't really feel like doing big long photo posts the way I did once upon a time for my China trip, but single ones ever now and then I think I can manage.

So!


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( Bach in the D.C. Subway, by David Lee Garrison )

Goodbye.

These are the words I say to you.

They are not the words I wish to say. The words I cannot say.

Come with me.

Because I cannot bear hearing you say no.

most courtesy of the excellent greensilkchai, with some input from yours truly ( Read more... )

Tell me the secret that will keep bitterness from my heart forever.

Sonnet XCIV, by Pablo NerudaIf I die, survive me with such a pure force ( Read more... )

Prayer, by Galway Kinnell

Whatever happens. Whatever
what is is is what
I want. Only that. But that.

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written 16 June 2010Blue sky, the plants glowing in the brightness of the sun. A pattern of shadows on piled rocks. Sweat on my skin, the wind playing my hair across my face, stroking the pads of my ( Read more... )

This morning the walk to campus was accomplished in a sleep-tinged fog. Rounding the corner, the leaves still clinging to the branches of the white birch trees glinted metallic in the slanted light, a waterfall of golden coins, frozen in motion.

xOx xOx xOx xOx xOx xOx xOx xOx xOx xOx xOx xOxThe campus where most of my classes are located is at ( Read more... )

"Of all my children, you're the most complicated," my father said to me, once.

Although I denied it reflexively at the time, his words have always stayed with me. Am I really so difficult to understand?

But perhaps it explains this constant longing for something more.

First, for anyone who's not aware, saiunkoku_fic is holding their annual Secret Santa exchange. Everyone should head over and sign up, it's going to be awesome!

Here's an interesting blog post for anyone who reads George R.R. Martin-- basically a critique of his story structure in writing A Song of Ice and Fire, and how it might be linked to the long delay in ( Read more... )