Sometimes I go into the woods to stare through the trees. Hundreds, thousands of trees. I charge up the mountain through the thousands of trees, find a quiet, hidden stump to sit. And I look around, and I find a leaf hanging from a branch. I fixate on the leaf. I watch it jostle and flutter, wave hello. I think about the likelihood that I may be ( Read more... )

I'm eating bread like tomorrow is bread's last day in town ( Read more... )

You only get so many chances to write on a leap day. So I'll throw this out there:

I think you can know for certain that you absolutely care for someone when the whole of your being shifts as a reaction to the slightest expression on their face.

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So when your roommate tells you that some "members of the grand council" of his church are coming over later tonight, what would YOU instinctively do?

Hole up in your bedroom with booze and pretzels? Me too!

Sleep is a cricket that chirps rarely,
but whose song I treasure dearly.

Sometimes, I wish I was allowed to be as old as I think myself to be. Age is a very relative thing.

What I mean to say is, it's really hard to fit in sometimes.

Good Idea or Bad Idea: Pursue women?

Good Idea or Bad Idea: Shave my eyebrows off?

I have loved, but never won ( Read more... )

It was nice to vote for a winner for once. While I'd like to say Utah is Obama Nation, check out Romney's numbers. Yes, that's right, 90% in the Beehive State. If a dictatorship could ever occur in an American state, it would be in Utah ( Read more... )