"You were born with potential

You were born with goodness and trust

Your were born with ideals and dreams

You were born with greatness

You were born with wings

You are not meant for crawling, so don't

You have wings

Learn to use them and fly......................."

- Rumi

We will fold and freeze together
Far away from here
There is sun and spring and green forever
But now we move to feel
For ourselves inside some stranger's stomach
Place your body here
Let your skin begin to blend itself with mine

lately, my writing has manifested itself in the form of carefully worded letters to people that i know, people i would like to meet, people that are dead, people that i'm not currently in contact with, et al. some of them i have sent, some of them i will send, and most of them i will keep to myself. the thoughts expressed in these correspondences ( Read more... )

I had tender feelings that you made hard ( Read more... )

In 2007, ( Read more... )

i am currently eating one of the fancy apples given to my boss by annie leibovitz ( Read more... )

my thoughts take me downtown ( Read more... )

love makes me smile, little hints of it, on the internet, in person, in theory....pictures and notes and smiles all currently fill my heart with something rarely experienced: joy. to all of you out there in love today - - with a person, with an ideal, with a pet, with an object, my heart beats in tandem, in that universal rhythm, with yours.

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"Isaac Brock came up with the name 'Modest Mouse' when he read the Virginia Woolf story The Mark On the Wall in which the author described the working middle class as 'modest, mouse-coloured people.'"
-wikipedia.org

p.s. they were amazing last night.