it's journal update time once again. i know i know i'm horrible about these things. 
even when i used to write all the time and owned a journal i hated writing in it. i guess nothing i have to say seems that interesting to me so i doubt it does to anyone else. heh. oh well here goes.
i really enjoyed staying with my sister in AL for a week. it was ideal for me b/c i had my best friend from MI with me and of course my sister. if only everyone i was close to could live in the same place. the night we got there my sister had taken her roomate to the ER because she was really sick. she couldn't keep any food down. she spent the night in the hospital. we seemed fine for a day or two then my friend who i'm sleeping right next to wakes up with
followed by a whole lot of for a day or so. that sucked. i felt so sorry for him. i felt a bit nauseous for a few days but i never really got sick, somehow. anyway besides the there was a lot of and we had fun. we never actually went to FL b/c neither of us really felt up to it and the water was too cold to swim anyway. i'm sure we'll make it down there this summer. i love the beach. it always brings me and absolute calmness, especially very late at night. it makes me feel at peace.
i've been thinking about a poem by rainer marie rilke. a lot of his work inspires me, but one line made me think and feel more than almost anything ever has. it's a poem about a statue and about how the statue seems so much more alive than the speaker and the message at the end is one line, so clearly stated, not even poetic really, but so powerful it really got to me. YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR LIFE. and i must. and this time i mean it. when i figure out exactly what these changes entail i'll let you know..
even when i used to write all the time and owned a journal i hated writing in it. i guess nothing i have to say seems that interesting to me so i doubt it does to anyone else. heh. oh well here goes.
i really enjoyed staying with my sister in AL for a week. it was ideal for me b/c i had my best friend from MI with me and of course my sister. if only everyone i was close to could live in the same place. the night we got there my sister had taken her roomate to the ER because she was really sick. she couldn't keep any food down. she spent the night in the hospital. we seemed fine for a day or two then my friend who i'm sleeping right next to wakes up with
followed by a whole lot of for a day or so. that sucked. i felt so sorry for him. i felt a bit nauseous for a few days but i never really got sick, somehow. anyway besides the there was a lot of and we had fun. we never actually went to FL b/c neither of us really felt up to it and the water was too cold to swim anyway. i'm sure we'll make it down there this summer. i love the beach. it always brings me and absolute calmness, especially very late at night. it makes me feel at peace.
i've been thinking about a poem by rainer marie rilke. a lot of his work inspires me, but one line made me think and feel more than almost anything ever has. it's a poem about a statue and about how the statue seems so much more alive than the speaker and the message at the end is one line, so clearly stated, not even poetic really, but so powerful it really got to me. YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR LIFE. and i must. and this time i mean it. when i figure out exactly what these changes entail i'll let you know..
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Pablo Neruda is my personal favourite poet- I love the way he uses imagery- I think generally non-English speaking poets tend to have a different way of looking at things... Mmmm.
My boy CAN be the sweetest- like he's so sort of UNcool and eccentric and has all these little foibles that would just make most people think he was a few sandwiches short of a picnic- but he's such a sweetheart and such a great artist- on top of which he's the best cook,who makes all kinds of spicy concoctions the likes of which I had never so much as imagined, let alone tasted- let's face it, i grew up on a farm in the sticks- uh, my diet wasn't exactly... mouthwatering. Nothing like having your parents serve you up a steak when you can hear cows mooing outrside- the poor little moo-cows
So i've never been to Amsterdam save for changing flights there when I was coming to Scotland- I think I'd like to go though sometime, maybe you could recommend it? Know any good places to go there?
You're right though, Europe is the kind of place you want to come back to- and hey, if you ever decide to do the backpacking thing and need someone to show you around this part of the world- I'd be only too happy to