July 2012
3 posts
5 tags
A letter to Bon Iver
I wrote this several weeks ago, but after much searching I’ve been unable to find a way to get this to the members of Bon Iver. So, I’ll post it here. Maybe they’ll see it someday.
“Bon Iver,
I want to thank you for your performance of ‘Holocene’ on SNL. I have to tell you now, today, while it’s still fresh in my mind, that your music has a lasting...
May 2012
23 posts
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes...”
– Henry Rollins (via kari-shma)
1 tag
Rage
This has been really difficult to write, but I had to get it out.
I work part-time at an afterschool care facility just a few blocks from my house. It’s a quiet town with lovely people. Terrible things sort of don’t exist here, or at least we don’t hear about them. So I was completely unprepared.
Friday at work, two big men started fighting outside of the door. One ran into...
April 2012
9 posts
It’s been a long time in the making, so I didn’t notice just how bad it was until this very moment. I can now say with certainty, though, that I’m going through a depression.
For all of my life, even through the worst years, even on my darkest nights, I’ve remained the one that is staggeringly optimistic. I can’t count the times people I know have stared at me in...
March 2012
22 posts
Don't ever hesitate. Reblog this. This should be...
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I don’t like anxiety.
Boyfriend has been gone a week. All I can think about is that day when we never have to say goodbye to each other. I haven’t felt this alone is ages. Long-distance relationships are so hard.
(Duh, Miranda. What did you expect.)
