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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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Monday, December 11, 2006

And When I See You, I Really See You Upside Down

I know you've seen these pictures before. What you see really only depends on whether you're focusing on the positive space or the negative space, right? And if you kind of let your eyes relax, and just let yourself look at the picture, then it's almost like it just shifts from one to the other or to something that's just a drawing, and a drawing is what it definitely is. But, if you focus too much on one or the other- the positive space or the negative, then that will be the only one that you're ever going to see, and it might even seem crazy for you to hear that other people see something entirely different living in these lines. Which is strange, because the person who CAN see two different pictures might think it's entirely crazy for you to even say that you don't see them both. Or see them all. Or at least see the ones that they see.

Maybe we're all just looking for someone who's on the same page, and that's harder than it sounds because the pages never stop turning, not even for a second, except maybe for that brief moment when you just know that they have, when the laugh lines on someone's face wrinkle in just the right way, or when the air outside is just exactly the wrong temperature so that you have to laugh, or when you cry for so long that you let go of your crying, or when you look at me in just that way.

Any way, it really is all about perspective, and some times you can choose to see things a certain way. and sometimes you can't.

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