If anything
it should have been
a better thing
From underneath you
staring at the ceiling
There's another world
of chocolate bars and baseball cards
That hides inside of all
this tension that I'm feeling
But It's all inside of you
Yeah, it's all inside of you
Surprise surprise
I miss your hair, you miss my eyes
And all this solitude
is my confidence eroding... Read More
he came rolling my direction, skateboarding in the middle of the lane on the wrong side of the road. as he came closer, I tried to calculate his age. definitely a teenager.
I suddenly felt very old.
there was a time when I didn't get tired. there was a time when, balancing on the rails, I didn't notice sweat dripping off my lip.
I hope you are all doing well. I just got back from my first day at my field placement, and they threw me into court already. It was fun and kind of depressing at the same time. We determined that a 14-year-old needs to be placed in a detention center after ten counts of assault, twice with a... Read More
yeah...it's not the kind of thing you'd choose to deal with, is it? what does your brother do? is he working in a legal capacity? or does he work in a kind of social worker's role? i'm just curious. the world can be a very sad place sometimes
her martyrdom began in her childhood. at eight years old, she believed fiercely in the power of prayer.
she asked her god, a frail wooden man hanging on a sturdy wooden cross, to relieve the burden of suffering in the world, if only the tiniest amount, by experiencing it herself.
i've made similar prayers myself. admittedly, not for the benefit of the wider global population, but for those i love who are suffering. i've lost count of how many times i've found myself wishing that i could carry the burden of someone else's pain for them. sucks that life isn't that obliging.
Wow, your blog photo is phenomenal. Picking up all the feathers...it can take some time...but perhaps well worth the effort and lessons learned while doing so? Or perhaps, I am interpreting wrong?
Behold! Last night I quote one of my favorite verses from Song of Solomon. Today the Powers-That-Be give us an Ember set. Two fawns, twins of a gazelle indeed!
I thought you'd like that.
