July 2010
1 post
Hahaha Life you're a little trickster you think...
I’m trying to hold the greatness of this summer but the broken glass jar full of marbles are out of reach falling waterfall like iridescent tumbling, rolling away. The fishes feet tap dance in a pickle cafe where when you touch the trees they’re temporarily illuminated. (last sentence discovered while babysitting)
Little children need lathered with lotion or their skin burns.
They...
June 2010
2 posts
June 7, 2010
Part I
Saturday on our way to get coffee we ran into the arts festival in Iowa City. Ecuador Manta was playing. There was an Argentinian family that sat behind us in the performance tent. They had two young boys with beautiful blue eyes like Gael Garcia Bernal. Their grandfather sat delighted at the sounds beating the rhythm on his knee. His grandchildren draped across his lap like capes of...
June 1, 2010
I said good-bye to my older sister. I hugged her good-bye. Yes I will see her again. But this moment is the moment we jump off the precipice. I never thought I’d need to be tremendously courageous. I’ve often sat on the sidelines cheering on others and now I am making decisions in my own life. I am no longer sitting on the sidelines.
She was by my side making mud pies.
She was by my...
May 2010
1 post
Going to Florence
May 25, 2010
I REALLY NEED TO GET MY THOUGHTS TOGETHER
Today I told my boss that I will be going to Florence this fall. My plane ticket is a round trip ticket for Sat, Aug 28 - Mon, Dec 13. I helped my sister pack up to move to Creighton where she will enroll in pharmacy school. I’m going to miss her tremendously. At first she applied last year to the University of Iowa and wasn’t...
April 2010
4 posts
So SHY
So I realized right now going to midnight breakfast that i am extremely afraid.
i know these people.
But i can’t speak.
i can’t look them in the eye.
i’m terribly afraid.
i can never be in a huge room full of my peers.
i don’t know what it is but my heart beats vociferously
i feel terribly claustrophobic.
there’s so many interesting people and my brain...
August 2009
15 posts
July 2009
20 posts
June 2009
40 posts
