I wrote this in my head, in the car ( Read more... )

cherished friends, i'm sorry for being so absent
a lot is up.

i find it takes a great deal of effort and energy to do this, but i hope to be able to return to you all soon.

x,
m.m

Things are a big goolash of good and bad right now.

I really want to tell you all the good, and it is coming. I seem to be really occupied at present, but I thought i would pass on the message that sometimes-all is well.

what is it about honesty, exactly, that makes it so difficult? what is about being completely honest to that one person that makes my mouth go dry, the feeling that reminds me of all those days spent home from elementary school watching court tv and sitting there, head resting on the hard arm of the couch-vomit bucket at my feet and covered in a ( Read more... )

In the past three or four weeks I have learned more about friendship from itself than I have learned in my 17 years of being alive ( Read more... )

Don't you find static things boring, static? We need to focus on the things that aren't boring, that aren't static. We need to focus on things that happen gradually, that have stages-things that grow along the way or have a natural ebb and flow ( Read more... )

( tori amos quote )

for good friends,

when you're having that neon-lit "crisis moment"
remember that you are in the middle of it,
and ask yourself,
"what is it like in the middle of a hurricane?"

i sit adjacent to the man who prefers to let the piles of paper gather, until the wind takes them to their final destination: the floor.
i clean up after myself, but that's a character trait.
some people just don't have it.
and, some things are just meant to be.

nostalgia puts me back some steps.
this whole night, i thought it was 2006.
it may as well be.
nothing has changed.