Oppressive yet comforting Sleepy-eyed and awake A tender breeze gone too quickly Giggling echoes reverberate in the air The answers will come Be patient and wait for more Laughing while crying The candles go on the cake Life goes on too briskly Life is one big dare The […]
EARLY TO RISE Happiness. I am in my all-time favorite place taking a well-deserved break. Hawaii! If it weren’t for the fact that toilet paper is so expensive here (an indicator of a high cost of living) I would leave my near-impossible-to-accomplish job and expensive San Francisco house […]
Roadside attraction creepiness: South Dakota One of the best aspects of cross-country road trips are the signs, billboards and random artifacts you come across. In the United States you can come across a lot of kitsch. There is even a book and now website about roadside America. Thus, […]
No sleep for me I want to be awake and dream I want to be awake and live out my desires No sleep for me I want to act out my dreams Not wait till sleep Dreams need not be perfect Just realized No sleep for me No […]
Have you ever heard of the band “Thirty seconds to Mars”? Jared Leto has stated that the name is a reference to the fact that we’re so close to something that’s not a tangible idea. While I cannot profess to understand Jared Leto -certainly his Oscar wardrobe left […]
How firm is your foundation? So many times we are so focused on going forward and looking up that we forget to look from where we came. Every once in a while it makes sense to look down and back to see where we stand and where we […]
Swirling thoughts like a storm-ridden sky. Other have grandiose ten-year plans, but not her. In ten years she would still be finding herself. What was so wrong with that? Shouldn’t we, as humans, allow ourselves to repeatedly evolve? Or are we supposed to set a roadmap to our […]
Imsomnia? Don’t watch an Adam Sandler movie at night and 6 other things not to do! Ever since I moved back out to California, I have been having a hard time falling asleep. I don’t even think about falling asleep early. And it is not like I am […]
She never had much; just what she could carry in a large suitcase or two. A long time ago she had received a large box with her few remaining childhood-items. That box has long since disappeared. Then one day she had knick-knacks; tons of pretty colored-glasses. They stand empty […]
A touch of teal in an auburn-filled potpourri bowl My doorbell rang and there was the delivery man with two boxes. How odd a sight. In New York, they just left my boxes on my doorstep. I twitched my nose wondering why the deliveryman rings the doorbell here […]