December 2009
10 posts
new year's
so another year is over. another decade. it’s weird that i can remember the last decade ending and this one starting. backstreet boys millennium cd and all that other nine-going-on-ten awesomeness in my life. strange to say the least. all of the stuff that’s happened this past ten years (all my awkward tween/teen years and the unhappiness that has mostly just been interwoven with my...
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
in keeping with my interest in old shows i used to watch (like papa beaver’s story time, are you afraid of the dark, etc.), my mom brought up pete and pete. everyone remembers that show on nick back in the 90s. it was a quality program and it was shot in cranford which always made it that much cooler (at least for us). we were reminiscing about the last episode of the series. probably no...
This is the greatest. →
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The Thing Is by Ellen Bass
to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a...
“It sounds selfish, I know, but… I just like being on my own. Relationships...”
– Summer, (500) Days of Summer/Me, Real Life
it's not a new year's resolution
i used to photograph everything. there was never really a period of more than a few days where i wouldn’t pick up my camera or take pictures. for a while now, it’s been a very rare occurrence that i take more than a couple of pictures at a time, or even take my camera out with me. thanksgiving was the last time i took a larger amount of pictures and that’s already a month ago....
since feeling is first
here i go again, trying to commit to something. i am going to do it for real this time (hopefully). the title of this post is the name of my cousin’s blog which, like its author, is inspirational and lovely. this is me starting over for real. it’s step one toward a new positive attitude and true happiness. welcome to my journey, i’m glad you’ve decided to come along.