January 2012
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After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul, and you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning and company doesn’t mean security, and you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises, and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open, with the grace of an adult, not the grief of a child, and you learn to...
Sleep Carefully
Resolutions
Get my drivers license
Get a job
Find out what I’d like to study
Read more
Move out
Save money
Be more creative
“The only people for me are the mad ones; the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time - the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles; exploding like spiders across the stars… ” ~ Jack Kerouac
So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.
One of my philosophy professors lectured wildly about love once, yelling: “When you’re in love with someone, that person is the lighthouse of your universe.” (I scrawled it inside Science and Poetry in pencil—lighthouse of your universe—as if I would ever forget that phrase.) He was a delightful caricature of his position. I could swear he literally tore his hair out while howling at us. He went...
