Dear Gwynn's Island,

In all of your serenity, you never fail to kiss me goodnight with anything less than an aesthetically pleasing midnight sky. As you hang the moon over the bay... you're beautiful.

Sincerely,
me

home

Goodbye Wisconsin,
Thank you for sharing your plethora of corn and cows. You were a great escape from southern humidity.


Hello Richmond,
It's great to be back in your embrace. I've missed you.

i need a bigger city.

I want to see the Grand Canyon and ride across the country camping out every night under the desert stars.
Richmond is too intimate. My spirit needs to roam free.

Let's get real...

I love the rain. I'd rather watch movies at home than in a theater.I'm not a huge fan of going out to eat. I'd rather just chill than go on some romantic escapade. I don't like it when people buy me things. I love The Rolling Stones. I'm stubborn and I'll most likely choose to learn from my own mistakes than to listen to others' advice. I love being outside. I've grown up a lot. I love football! I'm indecisive. I live for simplicity and memories. I love my friends and family more than they'll ever know. I'm a dreamer. I can be rebellious and spontaneous, yet shy and reserved. I'm in no rush to settle down. I love learning useless information. I want to go to Africa and bike across the U.S.A. I can be way too sarcastic. I'm easy to please and I'm content with my life most of the time. I suck at lying. I come to my own blog to listen to Mmm Bop. You'll never fully understand me. maybe I'll never be 'that' girl...but I think I'm ok with that...

immortal

I like to look at things as simple and complex as the white clouds laying against the blue sky and take in the splendour and beauty as much as I possibly can as if I won't live to see tomorrow while living like I'll never grow old, never die.

Em-Butt

My sister is sailing to Connecticut, here are some pics/updates: "We all have blistered hands and tired bodies but everyone just kind of works through it because we are all still having fun. No one has gotten sea sick yet (knock on wood) so the Schooner Virginia is in high spirits sailing her way to New London."
Emily Stevenson - [12:01 July 1, 2008]

Check out their blog for daily updates: http://www.schoonervirginia.org/blog
Miss ya sis, can't wait til you get home!

sunglasses&chapstick

I've got my hair down and classic rock turned up

gripping curves of country roads

with the a/c off and windows open

southern heat is rushing against my fingers

steadily carrying strands across my face.

cornfields are beside me

cloudless skys are above me

I'm dipped in summer,

immersed in life.

this is for myself

for days when I feel like I'm invisible and vulnerable:
"I think i should share something with you! and im trying to not be weird or gushy or strange at all..but i always am and i can never get out of that but i thought i should tell you that i think you're maybe the strongest girl i've ever met in my entire life!and i admire you. i dont exactly get the pleasure to talk to you everyday..but i hear things..and i read things..and i remember things...and you've come a long way. the road to getting where you want to be isnt always the easiest. and there can be setbacks. but you seem so determined and motivated to get there... maybe its been a while since you've had dreams or goals..or maybe it hasnt..but you want them..and you kno what is takes to achieve them. thats what i see. and you actually motivate me.. and i thought i was already motivated! trust me...i've been through it..maybe not as much..but i've had my moments..and im doin everything i can to enjoy my life..because i honestly dont kno how long i can last myself. and its interesting to see someone go through the same thing..but in your case i think you've had it rougher. im pretty sure the majority of girls havent gone through the things you have. im sure they havent had the same thoughts or any of that. but you're still here. and you're still "truckin." I cant help but be motivated. And i couldnt help but express my feelings on how strong I think you are."
-T.P.

there's no beauty in my breakdown

I hate breaking.I hate breakdowns. I hate how I always back down from what I want to make sure others are happy. I hate how I called you today and got interrupted before I got to your voicemail just in hopes of maybe hearing your live voice. I hate knowing you won't call back. I hate how I have so few female friends. I hate how I miss your voice, your smile, your OCD, and your failure to obey traffic laws. I hate how you always use the wrong form of "your/you're," and I never despised you for it. I hate thinking about the sleepovers that never happened. I hate how there's so much I want to say to you, but won't have the chance. I hate the picture I painted for you that you've never seen. I hate holding onto this sense of hope. I hate how I try to trick myself into thinking I'm fine. I hate how I'll never be good enough. I hate how pain relieves pain. I hate how much I care and and never told you. I hate brokeness. I hate breaking. I hate breakdowns. I wish for a chance to fix things because I miss you. I wish to stop wishing.

Peace&Love

the calm before the storm

I like passionate people, people with passions that I don't have so that I can learn about new things. I have this unquenchable thirst for random knowledge and listening to others speak.

I love the way the air gets just before a thunderstorm...the way it smells, the way the wind whips my hair around and presses my skirt against my legs, the clouds and the coolness and the way the trees suddenly start to dance. It's the simple things like these that make me feel so full of life.

I'm strong yet a trainwreck. I'm free yet in bonds...

Peace&Love

sweatsandwich

running in 100+ degree weather,

but when determination overcomes reason & logic who cares

An Enlightening Evening

"I think you're a brutally honest, and loyal friend. Someone who doesn't like bullshit and doesn't want to take it, you don't like to waste time on what you don't need to. You take good care of your body and yourself, and you're fearless. you're smart too. I think you've changed a bit after one year...for the better i think. you just seem, i dunno, happier. its a good thing.
please, don't lose your sarcastic side it's the best."

Insatiable

I need to get out of VA. Soon.
I want to see ravishing places and meet new faces. I'm so insatiable...

swing with me and i'll love you forever.

I signed out for lunch but instead walked about a mile to a playground just to swing.

And I did just that for an hour & finished by jumping out of my swing as far as I could, just like when I was little. I didn't want to leave, such a kid.

I got this message from Sarah and it made me miss her:

"if dinosaurs ever come back, what would you do? It won't be like the Flintstones, these dinos would eat you, not work all day in the quarries lifting rock all day. that is weird, the flintstones was so not true at all."

VB:at least your clothes are cute

ew:
Why? You used to be naturally pretty. Nice implants. You look like a starving alien. Congrats, you ruined yourself.

UGM

even my bad days aren't that bad...
on the sofa with my dog.

My cousin got here

Fight club just came on:

"You can swallow a pint of blood before you get sick."

I liked this ad for scrabble:

"It's a bitch girl...

...and it's gone too far 'Cause you know it don't matter anyway Say money but it won't get you too far..."

since feeling is first

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom

lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
—the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis

-ee cummings