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The Hug ( Read more... )

I've been writing so much in the last week, but also stopping to take the time to read and listen to music. I get overwhelmed (in a good way) with words and just want to share them and send them and write them on marquee signs. Words cause wars, stop wars, end lives, start lives-- and so little attention is paid to the use of them, the beauty of ( Read more... )

To Bigfoot ( Read more... )

The Coatroom

Last week, 5 degrees, taking off a winter hat with an icy tassel, I was
Transported back to the crowded coatroom in my pear yellow first grade class.
Those of us who walked to school would congregate with runny noses
in various shades of red, to inspect the freezing parts of each other's hands and head.

Feel the tip of my nose! ( Read more... )

Me and Jay ( Read more... )

It doesn't make you an alarmist, a drama-queen or a conspiracy theorist to question authority when authority stands around shrugging "I dunno" at most legitimate questions asked in press conferences. They are paid to minimize panic and maximize their profits to get things rolling smoothly and quickly again. Some people need to wake up to the fact ( Read more... )

It went from -35 to 58 degrees in less than 3 days. It smells like Spring outside and I saw a bumblebee, yet Winter just started. It might be a year of oddities already. I'd rather it be oddities than tragedies. I spent New Years Eve at home with my dogs in a quiet and peaceful way, watching movies, eating homemade soup and reading, painting, ( Read more... )

"Stones taught me to fly, love taught me to lie, and life taught me to die. It's not hard to fall, when you float like a cannonball." (Damien Rice)

( Soundtrack for walking through the winter without snow. )

There was something magical about the original old school days of LJ, before social media became the norm. Paragraphs full of peoples deepest thoughts were replaced with quick Instagram photos of their dinner and news got condensed into tweets that were limited to 2 lines. Facebook placated the already shortened attention spans of most people as it ( Read more... )