...and the worms ate into his brain.

A week ago I stumbled into an interesting discussion about our educational system, and the problems presented by the disparity in educational opportunities worldwide. My half formed ideas floundered and thrashed about for a bit, until I myself was unsure what I was talking about. Not my peak performance. As a ( Read more... )

...but I can't really speak them
To you

The massive weight of the silence grips me, and I can feel it squeezing everything from my being. I can feel myself screaming, sobbing, protesting, gasping; but none of it comes out, the brutality of the silence has swallowed it. The only thing that escapes now is a tear. That is acceptable. I can do anything ( Read more... )

It has been two days since your abduction, and I can only imagine that this must seem like an eternity to you. Know that I have not forgotten about you, and am working hard to secure your safe and speedy release. There is some hope of a prisoner exchange, and I am hopeful that this will take place in the near future.

Keep hope and be strong; you ( Read more... )

I saw a blinking out of the corner my eye, and then it was gone. I knew it was a trick -- don't look! Then it was there again, the faint blink out of the corner of my eye. That's when I eyed my phone suspiciously. Like a child accused of stealing candy from the cupboard, it sat there, quietly, innocently. A little too innocently, if you ask me. It ( Read more... )

... than those of which we cannot complain?

I like to know how things work; and no one thing is more fascinating than the human mind. I'd examine them working, throw in a wrench, and see what happens. Like any semi-trained monkey, the development some degree of proficiency was inevitable ( Read more... )

I'm complicated, yes, I know. I'm not just complicated compared to men, compared to women, compared to your favorite TV dinner; I'm complicated. Full stop.

I can be impetuous, stubborn, clingy, hypersensitive, calculating, and needy. Still, I could not have my positive aspects without these negative ones. (Don't worry, these are all qualities others ( Read more... )

Sometimes it takes me a while to catch up with reality. When I finally do, I don't manage to hit the breaks in time, and slam into it like a crash test dummy. As I survey the wreckage, wondering how my plastic arm suddenly became fused to my hip, I come to sudden, startling realizations. Usually these realizations frighten me -- more than they ( Read more... )

...and it scares me more than ever ( Read more... )

…only longer.

The future is a funny thing. We are all hurtling towards it at an unbelievable speed, careening and swerving, attempting to hit the targets we think will lead us to our ideal place. All the while lamenting that life seems to be standing still, and that no real progress has been made, never realizing that while we were looking in the ( Read more... )

....no, really. I know how these kids grew up ( Read more... )