Well, I must admit that I'm hugely jealous of your glasses. I've always wanted them - and even faked an eye test once to get them, but that was as a kid. Even now, though, I often think I'd be more attractive in a bookish kind of way with glasses. But alas, my eyesight is in flawless condition, much to my own chagrin. On top of it all, my friends ( Read more... )

What causes someone to leave the country and flee to another land - a heartbreak ( Read more... )

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and then the sound of quiet crying, as if I hear, near a clearing, a spirit of mourning bathing itself, and singing.

(s. o.)

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If I could say one bleary-eyed thing right now, it would be that I like to look at the glimmering Seattle lights, little pinpoints peeking between the lamp-lit orange and yellow leaf-covered trees.

It's been so long since I've heard pipes this good. Lizz Wright sounds like slightly melted butter being spread smoothly over a slice of hot, crispy toast. Her phrases move like the knife spreading back and forth over the toast, from left to right, easeful and sure. It's effortless. The butter of her tone melts and soaks slowly into the toast of my ( Read more... )

I've pushed it down. I've trained myself not to think about it - this hope. For so long I've stuffed it to the bottom of my giant worry-pile like a childhood toy once treasured; now forgotten in the most far-reaching, darkest corner of the garage. But it reappears ever so subtly. Little did I know that by simply being there at the bottom, it's been ( Read more... )

This has been a spontaneous, eventful, and refreshing summer. The list of happenings to date is as follows ( Read more... )

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WHAT: A multi-purpose trip to visit my aunt and two cousins while accompanying them on a road trip.
WHERE: Raleigh, North Carolina; Atlanta, Savannah, and Charlottetown, Georgia; and Jacksonville, Orlando, and the coast of Florida.
WHEN: Friday, August 4th - Tuesday, August 15th ( Read more... )