Love the quick profit, the annual raise,

vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something
they will call you. ( Read more... )

ride home from jess' house, thunderstorm, mud, sunscreen/eyes, spokes eat wet earbuds slipped from ears. subsides, looking up: the biggest rainbow I've ever seen.

suds. shiny shwinn. squeaky.

coming weekend: camping in galena, three favorite people. pumped.

babysitting: bubbles, bugs, birds, blond boys with big blue eyes, backyard. beautiful.

next week ( Read more... )

suburbanites wake up to their big empty houses
stocked fridges
nobody to share their breakfasts with
apathetic, lonely
despairing

black-eyed babies wake up to their hard dirt floors
swollen bellies
no breakfasts to fill their bodies with
wanting, crowded
despairing

___________

What is your response to the current hunger crisis?

(before you read on, don't forget about the solstice party tonight!)

These film snapshots just came back from the little co-op pharmacy down the road.
They correspond to my post titled Hurrah!


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I'm back from DC, safe and sound and a little wiser.

The trip didn't start well. After checking in for my flight I realized that accidentally left my camera, it's charger and the charger for my laptop and phone, which I primarily use for travel, on my bedroom floor.  (This was following the night I left my bike helmet at the library and water bottle ( Read more... )

This girl is trying to set up a tripod that is broken and won't hold still.
She is also about to get a gnarly sunburn.

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It’s about time for a party at my house ( Read more... )

The past day and a half has been lovely. My favorite, sixty year old, post-hippie, still foodie, recovering alcoholic aunt came for a visit because we both had the day off of work. She is my dad’s oldest sister and because she never married, she really doesn’t have any family besides her siblings and me and mine ( Read more... )

first (small) paycheck ( Read more... )

It’s a sleepy Saturday night. I have worked three long days in a row because I took some hours for a co-worker and I am partied out from Julia’s 21st which came in the middle of the week. (I don’t know if I’ll ever really get into the bar scene, but the 80s cover band sure was fun!)

Rew is upstairs playing World of Warcraft, to which he is ( Read more... )