Jan
27
2008
I awoke submerged
as we all did back then.
In a water balloon
contained in walls of flesh.
Flowing with thoughts, surrounded
by blood and hope
20 digits functional
and no sheets to tie.
We all dreamed of escape.
Or did we?
No, we did…
we most certainly did.
Fed by oxygen
that didn’t belong me; parasitic.
Fueled by seconds
and inevitability.
Yes, it’s dark sometimes…
but it can be warm as well.
Will these doors open someday?
Light pouring in…
while I’m pouring out?
Breathing, beating, living, screaming,
on terms that are my own?
Only time will tell.
Jan
21
2008
Not as late as the “No Country…” review, but not on time either, and easily as enjoyable… for completely different reasons.
Yet another great film that snuck in at the end of a great year for cinema!
Click here to see what I thought of it!
Jan
16
2008
Better late than never!
Saw this weeks ago and haven’t been able to shake it.
Click here to see what I thought of the Coen brothers latest.
Jan
03
2008
Funny how New Years is about on par with Thanksgiving for me. T-Day is definitely less commercial and more about family (even though the true history behind the holiday is anything but) but New Years is about as boisterous and commercial as JC’s birthday. So why all the love?
Well, I guess it’s really the allure of new beginnings.
I definitely don’t subscribe to that “clean slate” mentality that many like to get behind at this time of year, but I do like the idea of another chapter closing in my life. That turning of the last page of a chapter that you feel that you got beyond.
The next chapter?
It could be more of the same (and most likely will be) or, maybe, just maybe, it could be completely different than the last.
For better or worse.
It’s that unpredictability, that big “unknown”, that I can’t help but get excited about. All of these possibilities… they leave me in a state I’m not often in; a state of optimism. It’s that sappy hope that we all embrace after every year that passes. That hope that everything really IS okay and that if it’s not, it can only get better.
Naive? Maybe. But how awesome is it to feel that way?
Even if it is only one time a year, those hopes, our wonderful hopes, are ours and ours alone.
Happy New Year everybody.
—————-
Now playing: Death Cab For Cutie - The New Year
via FoxyTunes
