“I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry . . . but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.”-Angelina Jolie -It was- It was daddy issues when I was a child. Hormones and adolescence as … Continue reading It was Daddy issues when I was a child
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Prompt #8: I want to know why you write.
I want to know why you write. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. ~Rainer Maria Rilke My last year of college was spent trying … Continue reading Prompt #8: I want to know why you write.
I’m the stranger you were never warned about
At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it. The Stranger What's the point? What are you trying to say? Why should … Continue reading I’m the stranger you were never warned about
La influencia en mi vida
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. Benjamin Britten I can still feel the beats of the soca music pound in my … Continue reading La influencia en mi vida