Just another day….
The other day I puckishly jumped into a discussion going on right beside me between two women and a guy regarding places to eat. After stating my opinion and engaging them in a quick conversation about various subjects, the fourth member of their party made an appearance and they prepared to leave. As they were heading out the door the oldest woman stops in front of me and says boisterously, “I wish you were a little older!” I pause, bemusedly, “Yes?” She nods, “Yes, my son needs an older woman!” My eyes widen, “Okaayyy….?” She then said something I cannot remember (due to my rattled state) before flinging out, “What are you, 12 or 13?” I decide to milk this for all it’s worth and smile demurely at the ground then look up through my eyelashes, “I am 21.” She pauses, gaping, clearly taken aback by this revelation, “…..” I hold out my hand, “Well, it was nice meeting you!” She dazedly grasps my palm before wandering after her companions. I then proceed to alternate between amusement, embarrassment, and general ticked off-ness… then decide that perhaps I’ve discovered my own secret weapon. Maybe. The whole thing was ridiculous.
Written ~ The Ersatz One
The product of his warped imaginings
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— her existence
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Life.
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No.
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In such a word she could never be found.
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The throbbing pulse of blood,
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the rush of breath,
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the shards of a broken heart.
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These had never touched her transparent being.
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Though she was intimately connected with the pain of every dark spirit.
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Revenge clawed at the crystal thorn that was her soul,
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But she rejected his forceful persuasions.
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Fighting against the prince of hate - his silky promises forever echoing through her hollow bones.
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© 2011 Julia Glenn
Be yourself, don’t take anyone’s crap, and never let them take you alive.
— Gerard Way
![My sister <3 After 3 days of hard work, intense socialization, and lots of walking =]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzmwjMXYW1r3ovwqo1_250.jpg)
Japanese Radio
Not sure why I never thought to look for this before…. while I was at a resort with my friends, we were looking up apps for our iPads and she found a Japanese Radio one. It’s good for her because she has 3G, but so-so for me…. so I checked online…. and VOILA!!!! Super cool music! (of course there’s some I dislike… but still… cool!) Haaaaa.
Right now a realllyyy annoying song is playing… sounds like and oriental pirate song for a kid’s birthday party….
Haiku ~ In this ancient envelope
Bold pen expressing
The words of a pounding heart
You must understand
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Gathering courage
This moment will forever
Be stained with ink
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Blackness captures time
This second voice now pleading
When I can no longer
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A warm spark within
Will surely expose my soul
To no one but you
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© Julia Glenn
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
— Galileo Galilei
![So… I was just thinking that I don’t appreciate the sky as it deserves. So I am going to try and take multiple pictures a week of the sky…. then post a collage in my room =]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyh22kzzxC1r3ovwqo1_250.jpg)
My Reading List
To read/finish:
- Emotional Intelligence
- Unsinkable
- Unlimited
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- Democratizing Innovation
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- What Color is your Parachute
- Time to Get Tough
- Reimagining Church
- Pagan Christianity
- Celebration of Discipline
To read again:
- Restoration
- What Every Body is Saying
- Blink
- Freakonomics
- The Elegant Universe
- The Dawkins Letters
- What the Dog Saw
Starting over…
Sometimes…. while I am watching the leaves fall (it’s Florida, so they continue to do so through winter)…. I am decidedly glad that my existence is not that of a leaf. Not to say that I don’t appreciate leaves…. if fact, without them, I wouldn’t have tea (different leaves…. I know). Regardless, I retain control (however limited or illusional) over my life. A leaf does not.
I can do great things with my life. A leaf’s possible accomplishments are rather sparse (comparatively speaking). And it cannot feel the satisfaction of a job completed (well or not).
By the same token (on the other side of said token) I find that you would be hard-pressed to find someone who feels strongly that a leaf has failed in its job. You wouldn’t fire a leaf (except by burning). But myself…. I can be judged with reckless abandon.
So… the point…. (besides the therapeutic qualities of rambling)…. I suppose that it might be simply that those who have potential should not treat it lightly. Ability can be counted among the resources that have been afforded to each person at birth. Some are less fortunate than others. Just because you are delivered into a world of affluence… or find yourself apprenticing under a master… or have opportunities flinging themselves at you… success is not guaranteed. I feel my greatest fault is my lack of self-discipline. Discipline shows gratefulness (which is one of the most life-altering perspectives).
the end.
