The second one gets especially awesome at 4:22.

there is a huge storm raging outside the window. it's like someone pouring water through a colander-big raindrops, more like rivelets of water, loud and plunky, hurtling themselves to the ground. thunder crashing, streams in the road, leaves being torn from the trees. it is delightful. it smells so fresh.

Oh my goodness, tomorrow I am going to London. Until May!!

i find it entertaning and diverse that some nights i can be found doing silly things down by the pond and up in dogwood and sitting with the sutton porch crowd until the wee hours of the morning, and how on other nights i really just want to take a warm shower and take full advantage of the cd player in our bathroom, so that i can rock out in wetness to dead can dance, and become the third indigo girl, if only for a song. and it's ever-amazing to me how life shifts, how the same person who once made my heart flutter with the briefest of phone conversations has rocketed back down to a mere human, not even one of the more important or interesting ones in my life. he is several states away, both physically and emotionally. and i am completely fine with that.

i've got some empowerment thing goin on down here, and it's pretty great.

i've been doing lots of thinking lately, about all kinds of things.
today me and my m-dawg went to see 'the notebook.' that ryan gosling sure does have some purdy eyes.

the world is so big-hell, the country is so big...and that is EXCITING. i cannot wait. each day is, or has potential to be, amazing. i feel like bounding out there to experience. and i will, oh, i will.

wow, what an emotional weekend. and week. and summer, for what it's worth. but hey, what would summer be for me if it wasn't emotional? bland and stagnant. actually, that goes for all the seasons of my life (sounds like a soap opera title.) i'm just an emotional person who gets lots of nutty situations chucked her way. and honestly, i'd rather have it this way. although it complicates everything.

today is the last day of spring. tomorrow is solstice...i'm scheming some rock out plans.

went up to new york on a whim at the beginning of the week and returned about 2 hours ago. it was beautiful. upstate new york can't compare to the blue ridge for me, but it has undeniable charm of its own. and my family! a week spent 'sitting around and drinking beverages', as my aunt is fond of saying. it's true. that's what happens when my family gets together. story telling and discussions about everything. brushing up against the profound and unintentionally waxing poetry.
and i'm a part of it. it's undeniable. there are pictures to prove it.
on the way home we listened to cajun music as i dodged trucks and babbled about booze. the sun was very close to being completely set, the land seemed very flat, and highway 71 looked uncharacteristically attractive, and almost surreal.
and it was beautiful.