Peace out, U.S. and A.

I’m moving to Mexico tomorrow. I’ll probably move back to Vermont next Sunday though… we’ll see. Maybe I’ll catch the swine flu, maybe I won’t. I hear you get a free round trip if you do catch it in Mexico, though, so I see a silver lining there!
I want to relax in a change of [...]

Patience.

Healing comes slowly. One day at a time. Patience really is my everlasting test.

I miss.

…laughing until my face hurts. Knowing y’all are laughing just as hard.
…dance parties exclusively for me. Leading to laughing until my face hurts.
…stealing…err… borrowing… pogo sticks from the alley way and nearly breaking limbs.
…complete intoxication from each other and the fun we had every single night.
…recapping every night the next day.
…complete dedication to our crew [...]

The Beach.

Nah, not the movie. Nothing to do with Leo DiCaprio to be found here. Only an old college paper, as I sift through saved and cherished pages of my own history. I have a selection of papers that I kept over the years and glancing through them, I seek to understand why I kept them. [...]

Cross-pollenating Projects.

Six years ago, I lived in Paris for just over four months. It changed my life forever. It was the beginning of the war on terror (our first day bombing Iraq was the day my family flew to visit me, and I was petrified, mesmerized and disgusted) and there I was living in another country– [...]

It’s hard…

…to be strong and stick to your guns. I’ll wager that is why we (or many of us) generally don’t. But I remind myself why I am here and why I must stay here. Things haven’t changed, so neither will my position. Einnnnn… kinda makes me want to throw a tantrum.

Finding Happiness.

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.”

Gandhi supposedly said this. After the past year of my life, reading this last month hit a chord with me. A “Eureka, that’s it!” kind of chord. It seems so simple. Yet so true.

Why?

You pushed me until I broke. It wasn’t enough to push it to the brink time after time, from which I somehow recalibrated each time.
The thought of dealing any more is literally unbearable to me and it’s so unfair to be in this place. It makes me sad to reach my limit. It also hurts to [...]