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the kindest days since i've met you
when i was younger i told my mother that easter was my least favorite holiday because we didn't eat turkey and she told me it should be my favorite because of what it meant. i suppose i always tried to be thankful for what christ did for me but i think part of me always took it for granted ( Read more... ) -
two thousand seven
the twenty-first year of my life has been incredibly mediocre and so i'm going to recap the most exciting parts of each month ( Read more... ) -
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who i am and what i'll be is nothing compared to who's taking me there. there's a white hot fire deep inside me that burns hotter than you'll ever know. a strength you'll never touch and never feel unless you let yourself out of your cage. everything doesn't look the same, and i'm more than you'll know. -
you were young once, but you're older now
"i can't believe i did that. it doesn't even seem like it was part of my life ( Read more... ) -
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part of me wishes i hadn't ever left.
but most of me wishes i hadn't come back. -
all you've got to keep is strong
"Look at all those yellow flowers. Are they daffodils?"
"Yes."
"What are they doing there?"
"They're growing."
because really, what else could they do? -
i have to get out because one more winter might be too much
you could break my heart and pour it out if that's what it takes ( Read more... ) -
things that happened in 2006 that make me glad i didn't kill myself
i figured out what i want to do with my life. i met my future husband (just wait). i finally saw jack's mannequin, not once, but okay technically once, but i heard one concert over the phone a second time. it's just like being there. i went to chicago and ate a chicken with my bare hands. i helped make the tshirts for beach trip 2006. i ( Read more... ) -
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If I have faltered more or less in my great task of happiness ( Read more... ) -
it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time
there is so much tied up in the words "i love you." it's x years of friendship. it's all the nights we held each other and cried ourselves to sleep. it's every time i said "spoon me, i'm lonely," and you did, cause we know it's not weird. it's cell phone concerts and road trips, text messages and tshirts, hott emo boys and football games. it' ( Read more... )