Unable are the Loved to die

Unable are the Loved to die
For Love is Immortality,
Nay, it is Deity—

Unable they that love—to die
For Love reforms Vitality
Into Divinity.

--Emily Dickinson

fall

for kevin

I wish I had talked to you more,

Asked about your family,
Your plans for the weekend.
Too late to see your sweet smile again.
The days are short
And grow shorter still.

vanishing point

do you ever feel like

your world has gotten so narrow,

if it gets any smaller,

you'll disappear completely?

how i deal with broken glass

i dropped a glass

and watched it shatter into a million tiny pieces.

instead of picking them up,

i left the fragments

to step on for weeks afterward,

and left a bloody trail

across the tile of the bathroom floor.

quote of the day

"Happiness begins where selfishness ends."

--John Wooden

iceland

i want to go back to iceland (after the volcano is done erupting). i miss it.

landing

i feel like i've led three lives in the past six months:

life before layoff
life after layoff
life now

i started a new job. it feels weird being an employed, functioning member of society again. at my outplacement center, they called this "landing." it's the perfect word. it's like the pieces of my life that were scattered are starting to come together. it feels right.

saturday song

sweet song from ra ra riot, love them.