To tell the truth, I have a "real life friend" on Facebook whose common relationship with a livejournal-er inspired me to unlock these vaults. Recently I saw someone reply to one of his photos/posts, and that person was the "reason" I started a livejournal in the first place. I remember when I was just browsing the internet one day and ran across ( Read more... )

+ Oh, wow. Spent hours tonight re-visiting my livejournal accounts (and actually re-reading some entries here (and at "darlingxbutton" that  I wrote from the past), and it was a flood of emotions, fascination and non-regrets. I forget how I somehow became very entangled with some of these "strangers" lives, almost in an intimate way (as psychology ( Read more... )

+ Looking at Nellena, I can't imagine that feeling of something moving inside me, growing and swimming in that magic. My niece is all wrapped by skin, bone and slime right now, but I can clearly see her. Slick grub between her fingers, sucking on her carrot thumb, hair matted in red curls with freckles splattered across her dim face, eyes closed ( Read more... )

I know this isn't really news, but... give a girl her props.

Just on cnn.com (March 8, 2006, 9:30 a.m.)

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+ The day is full of cold, cold air. At the busstop today, hat and scarf covered, my breath was breaking through and surrounding my face like a second layer mask. I thought for sure it was going to freeze all around my head and become a kind of helmet. I could use a helmet nowadays, but not an icy, opaque one. My eyes would become icecubes, I'd ( Read more... )

+ Today I predict empty envelopes, rushing molasses-like through the minutes and sheets of ice on my street as I slip uphill to and from work. Waiting has always been my strength. Age 10 and coming home to a door locked and not knowing where my parents or sister were, I waited on that stoop for two hours thinking about car crashes and suitcases ( Read more... )

) I wanted to write something tonight. I rehearsed it in my head all day. It was silly. It was nothing/important. And I just don't care anymore.

the meme, of some kind of interest, i guess.

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