what have i yet to learn? everything i don't know, i'm sure, and while everything i do (think) i know twists and cavorts itself up into silly, feminine heaps, i lie disgusted by my own stuff to no end... i wish, stories would come to me naked, begging to be clothed and fed and written, [...]
Month: June 2009
d. 2009
this is where i hesitate to say much because so much has been, is being, and will be said about a man..an icon, a star, a musical genius, humanitarian, and upholder of a lone, misunderstood vision... i am not easily moved to emotion for the loss of people i didn't know personally, of people who [...]
food is love
i've been having an affair. i'm an overeater. i love food. i'm skinny fat. greedy. food gives me pleasure. makes me nicer. makes me laugh. makes me kind and gregarious. there's a huge woman trapped in my body. sometimes i look pregnant. my boyfriend refers to 'it' as my euro-belly. i've been obsessively and quietly [...]
fuck. your life…
image by miwa yanagi
there is a distinct danger in unchecked self-absorption... sometimes, we should focus entirely on the needs of others.
pragmatic approach to drinking
i'm a vacillator. i go from one extreme to the other. and since i left grad school, or maybe since i became a mother, i've become way too....safe. and yet, even that safety, that cautious way of living is punctuated by random acts of recklessness. drinking too much, getting kind of loose in the night, [...]
on coveting
marching to a different beat....people shouldn't covet. you never really know what's on the other side of the fence, and yet people pine and want and lust and desire things and people and places and ideas and spouses that do not belong to them--never knowing that what one covets is rarely better than what one [...]
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