stop signs

its all stop signs

its all lines that shouldn't be crossed

its all interpretations that have been lost in translation

even when the meaning is embossed on something that redefines stop signs

something that erases and redraws lines for all the times

curiosity gets the better of us

but until it gets the best

we test the lines

until it gets the best

its all stop signs

he loves to pull feathers from his pillow and watch them fall to the ground

eyes like recycle bin blue

you look at things as if you can make them new

and more than once

i caught you staring

gravity

maybe its gravity
thats getting us down

all at once i realized....

and you said to me
"you're a good girl
and i never told you that"


.... and all at once
i realized....

just begin - one...

I never look at the masses of my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time- just one one one. So you begin. I begin. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up one person I wouldn't have picked up 42,000... The same goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin- one...
-Mother Teresa

and i'll play at being brave

i am still sleeping

as we walk through the city

our hands turning red

and our breathe leaves a mark

the sky that is too bright
from all the skyscrapers

ps. tomorrow night, going to a-trak ! yip yip

here comes the light

i feel the pressure settle over me
the same old thoughts
my own little private hell
and yet like so many others

and i think
if i could stay in your love always
be in constant movement with you
and here comes the light

here it comes rushing in
in the face of a smile
of a beautiful melody
in the leaves falling to the ground

nobody's little weasel

"with wide eyes and a tiny grin, she sees the world in a magical light, discovering minor miracles every day"

- amelie

rise and shine

grandma told me
stop trying to calculate the difference between people
people don't need division
gotta stick together
gotta love one another
she said we will only find equality
in the number of our tears
and she was right
because i don't know what injustices you've suffered


justice isn't justice
it just is
and you can't change it and i can't change it
so we just gotta try and rearrange it
and i could offer you this miracle
a chance to see what i see
to see the way people see me
because if seeing is believing
and you see what i see
who would want to see anymore


grandma told me
young lady
you can't be concerned
with whatever it is they've got
the only reason they think they are beautiful
is the same reason they think you're not
and young lady
you have beauty beyond measure
you're a treasure
entrenched in this earth
you can't let strangers determine your worth
rise and shine



so i rose and i shone





ps - here is a photoshoot from the weekend in whistler, with two of my favourite people. check out anastasiachomlack.typepad.com for amazing photos

moving forward....

"because no matter how badly a thing is hurting us
sometimes letting it go hurts even worse"

choice

i say you can choose darkness
but it never once has chosen you

"spelled out your name and list the reasons

faint of heart don't call me back

i imagine you and i was distant not insistent

i followed suit and laid out on my back, imagine that

a million hours left to think of you and think of that"

- tegan and sara