I've had certain people in my life comment on how they were old souls and I was a young soul. And they try to tell me that that can be a good thing because young souls have enthusiasm and energy for life, but really I know that people have a connotation of old soul as wiser and young soul as --- well, not so wise ( Read more... )

oh in the dark dreaming raging screaming. what to do with this little heart. it wants to jump out of my chest and escape somewhere but it's reckless at a time like this and wants to listen to the heart of nothingness conceived by Kim - a place without lies and pain wrapped in pretty packages. There are times when I so intensely understand Kim... ( Read more... )

based on a book that I love: Jean de Florette. I imagined what Le Papet would say if he allowed himself to believe that Jean Cadoret was his son. Please let me know of any errors or anglicismes that I made ( Read more... )

i've been swimming in the vast cultural waters of Jean de Florette and ( Read more... )

Guilt What is yours? Explain yourself Culinary: Greek Salad
I call it that but I add blasphemous things like lettuce, carrots and maple syrup and leave out the tomato
Literary: The many classics and other books overcrowding my bookshelf They seem to add so much pretension to my home when really truly I intend to read them at some point ( Read more... )

Hunger for the strength ( Read more... )

and it would get sent along and you could just take it...


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Ever since I moved to a new place, my cat, Marmalade has been getting attacked by the neighborhood bully cats, Blackberry in particular. Excuse me madame, you have your blackberry in my marmalade. Poor Marm has another somewhat infected wound. I've taken to walking him around the neighborhood every night when I get home. He's just like a dog that ( Read more... )

-Last night I dreamt that I was riding a pickup truck while lying next to a cow and a dog. Most of the time, I couldn't tell them apart. They acted the same, super affectionate and lick-crazy. I remember thinking "Aw, and people eat cows? Can't they see they're the same as dogs?" ... This might have something to do with the fact that last night I ( Read more... )