as kids we'd build trenches and walls on the shoreline

hoping with the right combination
of wet and dry sand, rock and driftwood
we'd keep the water out

the waves would come and engulf in itself
our barricades
of sand and sticks and stones

leaving not a trace of our marks
try as we might, again and again
our efforts are washed away

you are the ocean

now ( Read more... )

last weekend reminded me of the importance of the few people around me. i miss sitting on floors, i miss conversations like the ones we had on saturday night, reminiscing and looking to the future. it's really lovely (and understated, i feel) knowing a bunch of people who hold these exact things with great importance in their lives too. i'm lucky ( Read more... )

i feel like i'm losing everything and i've only got myself to blame. and it's almost like i'm just waiting for all to be lost before i lose myself, because i don't know what to do anymore ( Read more... )

it really feels like the universe is conspiring, getting me closer to the things i want.

and so, just like that, another season of local competition ends. i've spent the last 6 or so hours since i last attempted a climb on the wall of the closing competition reflecting the year, and it's been both encouraging and frustrating. the year started really well with gravical and boulderactive finals back to back, and then i went into sort of ( Read more... )

and since everyone's been getting in on it and everyone wants a piece of action here's my vow for even more silence, because every time i speak it feels little more out of turn. it's not too far away now, april/may

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"If there's one thing that I've 100 percent learned from this whole experience, being in Circa, is that you decide all of your own limitations in life. You can do whatever you want to do. You can overcome anything. You don't have to be bummed out, you don't have to work some shitty job. You decide your own limitations.... You say you can't do ( Read more... )

beside you sleep, i slide

a place where we can hide

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come for me
you cover me
come for me
comfort me
come for me
cover me
comfort me
comfort me

agoraphobia - deerhunter

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because noone is safe
from someone, somewhere's sweet embrace
and so i have simply decided to dislike you now

-Mew

one of the best lines ever

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