February 2012
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A Boy Named Wes
I was sitting in the waiting room of my psychiatrists office passing time reading before my appointment. A young man rushed in through the door, hair in every direction, his pants baggy and ripped. He sat down next to me. You could tell something wasn’t quite right about him - his eyes went in different directions and his speech was slurred and forced. Still, he opened his mouth to start a...
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“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
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I think the girls in my dorm believe me to be crazy because it seems I only take walks on the coldest nights of winter. There is something wonderful about the frigid air - something beautiful about the thousands of stars that can be seen on clear nights, something mysterious about the moon when it peaks out through the clouds. I can’t express how much I love walking at night; those rare times when...
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I come back after classes and tumblr is all weird TUMBLR Y U DO THIS TO ME?!
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Thoughts
I sit by the window in this pale green room which smells of fresh paint. Outside I see the lights of nearby buildings – little figures moving around inside them, blocking out the light for a split second before returning to where they once were. I envy their freedom. This is how I feel each day, like there are invisible fingers wrapping around my wrist and cutting off the blood flow to my hand. I...
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On that night I swore the moon was a streetlamp and I swore he loved me and I swore the carpet was green and not red.
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There's Something About Holy Music
Something that digs down deep in my bones and refuses to leave until I have sculpted new works with my hands. I think of all those people living in Medieval times who were born and then died not too long afterwards, all the children born in winter who never saw the spring. My heart aches. The music written for God and for Jesus and the saints I feel was really written for the babies who died too...
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