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Feb 25 '10
From Cosmo, December 2009.  

This is legit.  I have the hard copy on my desk at work.  Next time you think about engaging in any one of these “high-risk habits”, please think to use a substitute listed above.  I think these suggestions are something we can all get on board with.

From Cosmo, December 2009.

This is legit. I have the hard copy on my desk at work. Next time you think about engaging in any one of these “high-risk habits”, please think to use a substitute listed above. I think these suggestions are something we can all get on board with.

Feb 1 '10

today’s lesson

well, as it turns out, something can make me smile today. maybe it’s a sign?

sigh. i’ll live with it, whatever that means.

Jan 31 '10
we would often be sorry if our wishes came true.
— Aesop

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Dec 4 '09
I wish that many times I had heard that ‘just who you are at this moment, with the way that you’re feeling, is fine. You don’t have to be anything more than who you are right now.’ I’d like to think it’s also something that’s happened to me through the years, that I’m more able to accept myself as I happen to be, rather than as somebody thought I should be.
— Mr. Rogers

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Nov 18 '09
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

The original is great, but this version makes me feel something completely different. If I was to take all of my perfect moments, memories, and feelings and roll them into a song, the outcome might be something like this.

What a hauntingly beautiful cover.

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Nov 11 '09

Retro posters for the movie ‘Up’. I really like these posters. I’d love more things to be advertised this way. This is the world I want to live in. But then again, I really love retro-futurism. It must have started with the Carousel of Progress at Disney World. No wonder I really love shopping for candy at Cracker Barrel. Ah…simpler times.

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Nov 11 '09

life would be so much easier if i knew exactly which bridges to burn, which bridges to cross, and which bridges had a troll living below them.

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Oct 22 '09
i love this picture!

i love this picture!

Oct 21 '09

wake

the box is pale blue
smooth
and inside
a plastic looking man
who i swear i’ve never met

the room is filled with strangers
all who seem to remember
the day i was born
or who tell me
“you’ve got your father’s eyes”

the lights are too bright
and my head is pounding
across the room
my mother is nodding
maybe she understands something i don’t

and that’s all i can see
through the water in my eyes


circa 2003

Oct 21 '09

drawing love

when I was six
I drew love
like it was easy

two stick people
smiling up from their home
on a piece of construction paper

little lines meant
for little arms connected
to show they were holding hands

a crooked red heart
carefully shaded above their heads
because love was always red

when I was four
I drew love
like it really was

just the crooked heart
heavy red marks
bursting out of the lines

12/08/04