20 September 2005

i love rumi

Look at Love...

Look at Love...

how it tangles
with the one fallen in love

look at spirit
how it fuses with earth
giving it new life

why are you so busy
with this or that or good or bad
pay attention to how things blend

why talk about all
the known and the unknown
see how unknown merges into the known

why think separately
of this life and the next
when one is born from the last

look at your heart and tongue
one feels but deaf and dumb
the other speaks in words and signs

look at water and fire
earth and wind
enemies and friends all at once

the wolf and the lamb
the lion and the deer
far away yet together

look at the unity of this
spring and winter
manifested in the equinox

you too must mingle my friends
since the earth and the sky
are mingled just for you and me

be like sugarcane
sweet yet silent
don't get mixed up with bitter words

my beloved grows
right out of my own heart
how much more union can there be

(translated by Nader Khalili)

15 September 2005

Meme

Since Gina called me out, here we go...

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY
1. Tessa
2. Theresa
3. Tessa

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD AND THE RATIONALE BEHIND THEM
1. Lapetitefleur – I am a cute little flower and french is cool.
2. Tessa – the reason for this one is not confusing
3. Theresa – it’s a legal thing

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF
1. I’m smart
2. I’m cute
3. My eyes are pretty

THREE THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF
1. My belly is way larger than I would like it to be
2. I have a short attentions span, though this doesn’t always bother me
3. I am make judgments too quickly

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE
1. German
2. Danish
3. English

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU
1. Knives
2. Never accomplishing anything
3. Horror movies

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS
1. Cell Phone
2. Wallet
3. Keys

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW
1. Diamonds
2. Lace
3. Contacts
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE MUSICAL ARTISTS(This question is ridiculously hard. Ask me tomorrow and the answers will all be different.)
1. Dar Williams
2. Indigo Girls

3. Tori Amos

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS
1. “After All” Dar
2. “The Wood Song” Indigo Girls

3. "Crucify" Tori

NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS
1. Apply to grad school
2. go on vacation outside the US
3. get published

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP
1. Trust
2. Love
3. Laughter

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE (in no particular order)
1. I hated Prague
2. My grandma taught me to cook
3. I love Italian food

THREE THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU
1. Muscles
2. They can focus on one thing, which can be pretty sexy
3. I’m with gina – I love the deep voices

THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO
1. the splits
2. Smoke
3. eat ramen

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES
1. cooking
2. reading
3. sleeping

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW
1. eat something
2. fly kites
3. play on my new laptop

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING
1. Writer
2. English teacher
3. Youth minister

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION TO
1. Italy
2. Ireland
3. New Zealand

THREE CHILDREN'S NAMES YOU'VE CONSIDERED FOR YOUR KIDS
1. Kathleen Marie
2. Christopher Michael
3. Liam or Ian

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE
1. Learn to speak Russian
2. Learn to surf
3. Live in Italy

THREE WAYS I AM STEREOTYPICALLY A GIRL
1. I cook
2. I love skirts
3. I love Romance novels

THREE WAYS I AM STEREOTYPICALLY A BOY

1. I love cars
2. I shop on a need basis
3. I like sex a lot

THREE PEOPLE YOU WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS QUIZ
1. Mark
2. Mandy
3. Jim

13 September 2005

Dream Obits

When you ate chocolate cake.
When you taught me the dogma of tea.
When we were un-identical Doublemint Twins.
When you ate air.
When all the things you were were best.
When memory I don’t remember.
When dizzy surrounded you.
When I drank dizziness.
When we wore nothing but a Canadian flag.
When I learned gin. And tonic.
When we spoke French like we were.
When you believed in The City and I believed in everything.
When you were too much perfection.
When poetry in pieces filled holes and time.
When the sound of typing filled the room full, pushing everything else out windows and doors.
When you drove all night and we woke up in Virginia, 5 hours from class, right in the middle of life.
When we were the theatre – play, actors, audience.
When you were full of theory and Stanislavski, props and sets, lights and sound and fury.
When you were a Tennessee Williams belle.
When I though of you as whole, no shards distorted, no pieces broken.
When He came, and we stopped.
When a call broke the mirror, the world.
When the hospitals anesthetized emotion.
When numb. And dumb.
When screaming – lights, flesh, heart.
When silent sings, always.
When you were Langston Hughes’ genius child.
When you run wild.