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: Name: Lindsey Jayne; Location: Sheffield / Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Bangladesh

I have some sort of disease where you hallucinate and start to not believe in love, but after a year or two, or even sometimes ten or twenty, it cures itself and all that's left are a few little red spots that twinge and ache whenever you get too near someone else that has the disease and it's all you can do to stop from reaching out and holding them close. I haven't started to make sense of the world yet but I think it's beautiful all the same.

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I only do this until I get dizzy & then I lay down on my back & watch the clouds, she said. It sounds simple but you won't believe how many people forget the second part.

You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do & this is what I have to say to you: today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together.

Liking each other because it's a beautiful day & it seems like a waste of time to disagree about stuff the other one is refusing to change out of sheer stubbornness

This is a giant block of whatever is most difficult for you to carry & trust me on this, you'll carry it more times than you can count until you decide that's exactly what you want to do most & then it won't weigh a thing anymore.

We had gone far enough together to listen easily in the quiet spaces.

They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but the good & true things they would do someday.

I'm not so good at taking my own advice, she said, but that doesn't mean I don't know what's right.

I was waiting for such a long time, she said. I thought you forgot. It's hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone.

Everything changed the day they figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in their lives.

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Saturday, May 13, 2006

With These Revisions, and Gaps in History--

The responses I received for my last blog were some kind of wonderful.

I appreciate it a lot.

I'm really not as emo as you think though; I think might come off as depressed and angsty sometimes, but there are a lot of good things going on in my life too. But to quote a Rilo Kiley song, "no one wants to pay to see your happiness." I feel the need to keep you kids updated on my spurts of Conoresqe (that's right, I just invented a word...) emotion.

Bowl of Oranges is really it though, and I know it!

Everyone else seems to be giving the "one chapter of my life over..." post, but I don't think I will at the moment, seeing as I am excessively tired.

I will, however, recap the last few months at a later time. Right now I'm just too damn tired.

1 Comments:

Genevieve said...

i didn't read the posts till now. but i love you and miss you so much already. maybe i can hop the ride with my parents and see you and beau/bo one last time before mcdowell takes you away.

and hey, anytime you feel yourself slipping away, go read that post i wrote about you and remember we all love you- me probly the most.

wheee!

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