The Eye

"Her sentences were icebergs, with the just the tip of her thought coming out her mouth, and the rest kept up in her head, which I was starting to think was more and more beautiful the longer I looked at her."

-Gregory Galloway 

Bite Down, Hard.

Everyday on my way home from campus, I would drive past a billboard for some kind of vitamin for children. The picture is of a mother buttoning her son's blazer from the back, presumably helping the child to get ready for school.
Beside it is a caption: "Which mother doesn't love her child?"
And without fail, I would roll my eyes and sarcastically reply: YOURS.

Lightly, lightly...

"It is dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly, child; lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so perposterously serious in those days... lightly, lightly- it's the best advice ever given to me. So throw away your baggage and go forward. there is quicksand all about you, sucking at your feet trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling."

-Aldous Huxley, Island

The Uses of Sorrow

Someone I once loved gave me

a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand

that this, too, was a gift.

Shit Happens.