SheFallsSoftly

I suppose that I’ll tell you about my recent activities. A few weeks back Billy and I took off to South Padre Island island. I just returned home from a week in Las Vegas. The trip was nice, I spent a lot of time with Sara and Justin who I’ve missed terribly. I’m also now decorated with two new tattoos. My little sister graduated while I was there, so we’re all proud of her being the first amongst us to walk.

I’ve been having lots of fun parties at my apartment… I think every night since I’ve been home we’ve had some quantity of people over and played guitar hero and singstar (awesome karaoke game) and went swimming and got really very trashed. If you read this and you want to come, you’re probably invited.

I’ve been meeting with a photographer recently for a too-private-for-the-internets photo project I’m going to be starting. Once again, if you read this and you want to know what’s up, just ask.

A note to the future if my poetry gets famous: focus on the falling imagery, and the drowning imagery.

Instead of letting my mind wander recently, I’ve started using a mantra. "There is so much beauty in the world" is the beginning, and then I list off every beautiful thing I can think of "Rain, baby toe nails, lamps in the darkness, fireflies, the ocean, flower petals.." with now and then "There is so much beauty in the world" thrown in again. It feels like I’m drowning (flag the page here, future howard scholars hahaha) in the realization that I am so small and that I appreciate almost nothing of what is around me. We as a culture need to creat our danger, but we need to create our beauty as well. We have art shows and dance and hedged gardens because we equate order and symmetry with beauty, and really all of those things are beautiful as well but have you ever really looked at the inside of a plum and thought about how gorgeously wet and almost violently fleshy it looks? It’s hard to be upset about anything when I realize that, it’s hard to dwell on the unhappy things.

This moment is the first time I’ve been alone since I left Las Vegas. There is so much beauty in the world.

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