this feels all too much like last winter, I don't know if I can do that again...

I went to an Inter-Faith service for Ramadan and I feel like something changed like I am a better me. I feel oddly glowing and fulfilled so I also have some new life goals:

o Find God
o Change a life
o Fall in love
o Help people
o Love my life
o Eat indigenous junk food on every continent

Starting Over

my list of goals for the 09-10 school year

• Make a new friend
• Get a pair of lab goggles
• Get my license
• Study Arabic
• Read the Koran
• Get my nose pierced
• Read the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
• more Arabic Calligraphy
• laugh
• Get a good SAT score
• Begin volunteering at Swedish or Bouche House
• Forgive myself
• Forgive someone
• Work with WGHA
• El Matador
• Watch a sunrise
• Read Rumi
• Jump in the lake in full dress uniform
• Have a moment of insight
• Learn to love someone new
• Swim under the stars
• Enjoy the moment
• Feel infinite
• Read a book for fun
• Paint a piece of pottery
• Fast for a day
• Sew something
• Do something when I’m not sure I want to
• Take a risk
• Do well in school
• Make a pair of special jeans
• Read the newspaper
• Write in a journal at least once a week
• Enjoy learning
• Celebrate Rumi’s Birthday

if I go crazy now, will you still call me superman?

how did we get to this place?
where everything seems different,
older more serious

we're too young,
to feel this young

I just want to feel young
and irresponsible, again


is that too much to ask?

FAIL!

I have been a miserable failure at updating this summer but I keep a journal so expect me to put up some entries later on interesting topics such as boys (or boy as the case may be), CPR and the obese man, The Leech, Infinity and Tales of the Metro Bus

se quiero mi amigas

my new favorite quote

"Travel is fatal to prejudice" - Mark Twain

Last Train

You haven't changed.
Stand in the light,
I need to see you,
uncover my eyes.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The tears coming down,
making lines on your face.
One for each year, now
that you've been away.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We were only kids,
we ran like water.
Your dad said,
stay away from my daughter.
The sun was coming down when I said,
can't you just believe?