http://www.flickr.com/photos/yevkusa/Writing on subway poster for Coalition for the Homeless Why are the homeless such a touchy subject in New York?New Yorkers have adapted to ignoring those asking for help on the sidewalk or in a subway car. It becomes a routine disengagement when you pass by the same people everyday. Avert your gaze. Don’t read […]
…whenever someone compares me to someone else (especially celebrities). It’s because I’ve been compared more to personalities than faces. I suppose people think they are giving you a compliment. On that wonderful note… “It’s Doppelgänger week on Facebook; change your profile picture to someone famous (actor, musician, athlete, etc.) you have been told you look like.” Sure, […]
“We are all human, and share many things, but many times we come together only in tragedy and not in celebration.” That’s what I heard one speaker say as I passed a crowd gathered in support of Haiti. Crowds are like a giant magnet for me. (I once read a quote saying that if curiosity […]
I watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind today. I’m still grasping for the right words to describe it. Though I sometimes avoid romance movies, it was definitely more than that. This movie really struck a nerve. I know that Clementine and Joel will live forever falling in and out of love with each other. […]
I wander thro’ each charter’d street,Near where the charter’d Thames does flow,And mark in every face I meetMarks of weakness, marks of woe. I’m sitting in a dorm room and I just saw a boy chuck a coffee cup off his balcony, right into traffic. This traffic which moves on the opposite (left) side of […]
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Decided to give CNN a chance today. I put on a special report about Muslim youth in Palestine. I was overwhelmed by the range of emotions I felt while watching this program. The story followed a man who spoke about Hamas boot camps, which trained children to use guns and to hate. At first I […]
Unpleasant dreams, by definition, are nightmares. It takes too long to forget a smile. It feels like there have been so many smiles. So many wrinkled eyes in a laugh. Sight isn’t even the strongest link to memory, how about that one? Good, good morning.
Cold water splashes, pulsing against my body. The sun heats my shoulders. I take one step in and the ocean pulls me in for another.It beckons. I want to float. I want to feel the waves under me, they push above.One slams from my left and the undertow pulls me out. Farther away, my feet […]
Although it is beautiful now, November is always an annoying month for me. It’s always too indecive between fall and winter. I hate when it gets real cold and I have to put on more than a jacket. Too many layers to worry about; too many hats to keep track of. November also means that […]