warm in the shadows

what kind of heart would break as easy as my own, look at all the marrow of my frozen bones




disco, disco.

making it happen

i just met the most adorable 4th grader ever. i asked him if he liked school, he said, "yes", but then confided that he felt bad because he forgot things at school . . . like the books that he needed to do his homework.

i suggested a post-it note, he said that he never thought of that.

i think i changed his life.

H A U N T E D

perhaps in a good way

a likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

i decorated my room with violet streamers at 4 am last night

i've been listening to grizzly bear so much lately .. beach house, warpaint, cat power, 60's everything. i guess it's winter.

she dissolves like sugar

"Mrs. Lewis hands me a kleenex from her purse to wipe the lipstick off my mouth that I just learned to put on properly in Charm School. The Kleenex smells of lilac, Chanel, cigarettes."

finally doing laundry

my pillow cases are stained with blk eyeliner tears.

greenhouse glasshouse

“The physics of the greenhouse effect is so basic that instead of asking whether it would happen, it makes more sense to ask what on earth could make it not happen” -- Spencer Weart, physicist and historian.