I told another lie today
and i got through this day
no one saw through my games
i know the right words to say
like "i don't feel well"
"i ate before i came"
then someone tells me how good i look
and for a moment
for a moment i am happy
but when i'm alone
no one hears me cry

need you to know
i'm not through the night
somedays i'm still fighting to walk towards ( Read more... )

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yay for new layouts! especially when there's a renaissance-y feel... =)

Elizabeth's Reason for Travelling Back in Time:

To make fun of the upper-class with Oscar Wilde


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and the winner is...
ECU


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we come with beautiful secrets
We come with purposes written on our hearts
written on our souls
we come to every new morning
with possibilities only we can hold
that only we can hold

redemption comes in strange places
small spaces
calling out the best of who we are
and i want to add to the beauty
to tell a better story 
i want to shine with the light
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hey guys...just thought i'd mention that 30 Hour Famine is next weekend (February 24th and 25th).

go here for more info (http://www.30hourfamine.org) or ask the nearest elizabeth. =)

spending my time sleep walking
moving my mouth but not saying a thing
hping the changes would take
by working their way from the outside in
i was in love with an idea
preoccupied with how a life should appear
spending my time at the surface
repairing the holes in the shiny veneer

there are so many ways to hide
there are so many ways not to feel
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An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

1. Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

2. Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is ( Read more... )

she feels lost in her life
treading water just to keep from slipping under
and she wonders if she's where she's supposed to be
tired of trying to do it right
her dreams are just to far away to see how steps she's making
might be taking her to who she'll be

and suddenly it isn't what it used to be
and after all this time it worked out just fine
and suddenly ( Read more... )