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a part

in this very small apartment (two rooms, a kitchen, a bath) there are so many places to be on a far end of the bed in the shower for an hour at the window, looking out behind your own eyes in the bathroom, staring into your reflection behind a wall of unsaid words behind a screen in this very small apartment there are so many ways to be far apart

confirmed

1.  It is possible to make up miracles.  I did it, once.  In the height of my middle school faith zeal, I made up a miracle at my eighth grade confirmation.  What I remember about the actual sacrament I mostly "recall" through pictures. I sang in a group of other awkward middle schoolers and I wore a beige blouse/floor length skirt get-ups that I surely got form one one of those mom stores in the mall.  My acne ridden face was framed by single tightly curled spirals- one on each side- and when I opened my mouth my smile was blinding.  I'm pretty sure that my braces required twice as much metal as any other braces I've ever seen on anyone.  Seriously, enough to set off detectors. That is all I remember about the ceremony. But I have really clear memory of a post-sacrament conversation with my mom.  It was a time of raging faith for both of us, and I just really soaked in the way she seemed to admire my rich connection with the Lord. I remembe...

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F is for False.

comps is for competent

Remember when I was writing my comps essay & all of a sudden I started using words like "bygone" and "stymied"?  Who was  that person?

mantra

question more make a religion of asking sacred curiosity unfettered mind untethered movements to go to stay to choose deliberately is freedom lay down that burden and replace it with more questions. what is? what can be?