August 2010
108 posts
Tonight
I drove out alone to Los Angeles to meet my friends at an outdoor Sigur Ros screening. I don’t know why, but I couldn’t find the place no matter how many times I went up and down the street, no matter which direction I looked. Hollywood and Highland is so bright and so packed with people and cars and noise. The combination of all these things is too much for me. I get incredibly...
July 2010
39 posts
highway conversation
You: Look at the colors of the sky over there.. and the way the city lights look beneath them.
Me: I love how you do that.
You: What?
Me: You see beauty where everyone else misses it. You help me notice things.
There are stars on my ceiling and butterflies flying around my room & all of this is true.
I am in a little tent in my backyard;
I am so happy to be home!! The weather is incredible and I feel like myself again. I turned 19 on Sunday! I asked for butterflies and hummingbird feeders for my birthday :) The caterpillars are now in their cocoons & the feeders have been filled & hung. I’m here with Ruby (my guitar) on a blanket of stars drenched in this lavender/chamomile oil that makes me float away. Did I mention...
we're puzzles made of water
the desert sun has climbed its way down to my skin;
i am breathing in
the wind
held onto all my thoughts in fragile arms
and carried them
from darkness into light
metaphors and images
compose my soul
my heart, my skin
i speak in colors
see in
sounds
you keep
me here
you make
me calm
the canvas you were handed to be painted
by emotion
emerges slowly, without fear
and i have...
I love this!
givesmehope:
To the woman who rolled her window all the way down in traffic just to tell me to sing louder and that it sounded beautiful, thank you. Your kindness GMH.
July 8, 2010
We are drawn towards the idea of wholeness, of salvation and fulfillment. We create ideas like soulmate and other-half and spend our whole lives searching. We convince ourselves we are empty. The perfect relationship becomes our hope and dream. I am beginning to see that this is a bunch of nonsense created to hold us back from reaching our full potentials. The perfect relationship must be with...
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I just had the cutest guy in the world and his snoring puppy snuggling in bed with me :) :)
“People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
