it is funny how in life there are periods of transition blended so carefully within periods of zero change. i've been in minnesota for just over two weeks now and have already managed to take giant steps into my future ( Read more... )

is that life has become such a pattern of ups and downs, goods and bads, sheer truth and festering lies, beauty and grotesque ugliness, glorious beginnings and tangible ends ( Read more... )

there was a moment this week were i was terrified. one solitary moment where the world stopped and i could not figure out what to do. one fleeting second where my total freedom was unsettling ( Read more... )

wondering how all of this will end.

i'm just sitting here.

on my own.

on my own.

on my own.

and that is okay.

today as i was driving home from a relaxing twenty four hours with ryan, i looked up and realized we are in the midst of fall. the trees along 275 are alternating shades of crimson, bronze, and evergreen ( Read more... )

with my five year reunion looming just over the horizon -- i pause to look back and see just where i have gotten in the last five years ( Read more... )

and i find myself two points away from a full scholarship next year. two tiny points... out of a 900 point class. i missed it by two ( Read more... )

without even a moment's hesitation... 'i love you ( Read more... )

i've returned from the sunny beaches of clearwater florida. i spent a day in orlando. and i spent hours upon hours out flooded with the warmth of the sun ( Read more... )

So you should taste the filtered light

and work your way toward wisdom

with no personal covering.

That's how you came here, like a star

without a name. Move across the night sky

with those anonymous lights.

-Rumi