I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good enough at it, and I don't think you have time to waste on someone who does not respond to you with kindness and respect.  You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath.

anne lamott
bird by bird

 Opportunity 
is like a freshly sliced peach:
so crisp and tasty.

you'll be my antimatter, we will need each other and destroy each other in a wild burst of energy

 well, i said it. and i feel quite relieved.

I should lay around and curse the day ( Read more... )

siobhan came with me to chinatown to see gregory alan isakov perform at the synagogue at sixth & i. it was the most beautiful evening, it was so perfect and wonderful, what an interesting man and such delicate music. we walked back to foggy bottom, agreeing that the best course of action would be to put his new album on repeat, lie in bed, and ( Read more... )

Then for awhile (with the vertigo cured)
we were alive
we were pure

In the dream it was just like it is.
-OK GO

Last night I had a dream that we traditionally had an open community forum instead of just writing letters to the editor about something here in Washington, DC. This week, I had letters prepared about various things, like the importance of The Vagina Monologues (and asking for more funding and more support on campus for them), the power of a low- ( Read more... )

I looked at my reflection in the window walking past
and I saw a stranger
Just so scared all the time
makes me one more reason why the world's dangerous

Tell me what's wrong with having a little faith in what you're feeling in your heart
Why must we be so afraid and always so far apart?

Yeah those broken hearted lovers, they got nothin on me

Lucy said, write about feeling old, but not being old ( Read more... )