Posts Tagged ‘ postaday2012 ’
I lean in my doorway, staring out into the inky blackness of the night. I can feel the doorframe pulsing against my shoulder, as though the beats of my heart were somehow shaking the very foundations of the earth. The thoughts running through my mind incoherent, a texture of slight madness. A confusion of my [ READ MORE ]
…and the crowded room receded back, the music and laughter; stilted conversations droning down into a low babble. She looked down and said, “I know I said I don’t feel things like normal people do, but I really like you and I’m afraid I’m going to break your heart, or that you will break mine.” [ READ MORE ]
Where is my rage? Where is the lust for life that has carried me so far, so swiftly, through the life I’ve built? What is happening to me lately? Routine, you are my eternal enemy. I cannot fathom allowing myself to sit back to watch life flow by me, uninterrupted, bereft of my ideas and [ READ MORE ]
I can feel something stirring, deep inside of me. Something I no longer thought I was capable of. Something that I had, in my infinite naïveté, believed was dead. I cannot explain it, I suppose that these things just happen. I think it has been buried in my subconscious for months now. Waiting like a [ READ MORE ]
In the world of the gladiator, a man’s fame and glory construct their own truth. I’m still wrapping my mind around that one. I get it, it’s actually quite easily divested of meaning. It’s the logic behind the statement that I’m examining. The idea that rumor and gossip become the truth of a man, simply [ READ MORE ]
Never lower your gaze from the heavens, aim for those stars that populate the sky; cast your own brilliance back at them. Shine, with a brightness built of purpose and find the greatness that rests inside each and every one of us. Keep your head up, unbroken and unbowed. <[ READ MORE ]
I cannot quite describe how I am feeling at this exact moment. I do know this, someone needs to change my iTunes password. Seriously. Impulse buys are filling my purchased playlist. I’m on my favorite top-step perch, it seems to be where I do most of my ruminating these days. And of course as I [ READ MORE ]
Life isn’t perfect. We aren’t perfect, but the perfect thing about life is that you get to choose who is perfect for you. We get to choose who we let into our our weird, private little lives. We can choose who gets to see the barest possible soul inside the layers of armor and pretense [ READ MORE ]
Sometimes, for brief moments, everything makes sense. Then, as soon as the feeling registers, it is gone and I am hollow. I find that enlightenment comes in fits and starts; pieces like Lego blocks fitting together then falling down before the full picture can be fully glimpsed. I wonder at the universe and our place [ READ MORE ]
I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you. <[ READ MORE ]
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