February 2010
January 2010
salinger is dead.
these notebooks i pour my heart out in and these letters i write for me and me only, i have no problem to share. but the public uses and abuses, rips apart and analyzes and turns it into required reading for fifteen year olds. compliment or insult? you could take it either way. maybe it’s a dream to reach a backboard shelf, or to become a beyond bestseller. who knows? i’ve never been...
marigolds and the economy
once upon a time there was a marigold. the marigold never did anything but breathe, breathe in that CO-2 like there was no tomorrow and replenishing the oxygen so many of us gasp, gasp, gasp for. the marigold was beautiful, in the simplest ways of existing and in every way of its own originality. it was an explosion of the sun that feeds everything on this earthy round, a warm fire of color and a...
this lullaby
if you’re there
i want to tell you
don’t be scared
you’re not alone
even if it seems so
and as you drift across the country
know i think of you
every time this lullaby
will play
tonight
if you’re lonely
remember those groggy nights
and smoky mornings
and you’ll know i won’t
forget them
even if you do
because as you fly across the country
know i...
“her emotions unchanged, she seems so deranged”
– unknown
“bravery is not defined by hardship”
– a boy in my english class
skies
i’m obsessed with the sky lately. everyday i see it as so beautiful, its shades of blue and all the clouds…alissa and i were driving to school in the afternoon and i was looking out the window at a stoplight and i just wished i had my camera. thats how much i loved the sky today; i wanted to paint it.
i’m very…wishy washy lately. maybe i just can’t settle....
“nena, if this goes on my see’s candy permanent record, i will kill you.”
– alissa barendse
this day
today was crazy. ridiculous. rough. hilarious. raw. perfect.
everything happened, from making videos to getting hit on in mcdonalds to filling out scary paperwork in see’s candy. you have to fill out paperwork to return/exchange candy. its super intimidating. anyways.
my musical exposure was lovely today. i’m listening to a new vampire weekend song and its awesome. and i listened to...
“and if you don’t believe me come back in a billion years and deny it. for...”
– jack kerouac, the dharma bums
this horizon
this is my third blog, and my third type of host. yes, i like blogging.
this blog is going to be about everything important to me—being a writer, a ‘learning buddhist’, and just an all-out lunatic about literature and philosophy.
i’m also going to be keeping track of my school’s philosophy club here. i pitched the idea today, and thus the community has been born....