Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Monday, July 30, 2012

Something Revolutionary is about to take place.


"I am unimpressed by recent movements
I need a new direction
Something to believe in to have faith in
An activity to turn to
Something revolutionary."

-From Robin Collyer's photographic piece Something Revolutionary

I've finally found my new direction, an activity to turn to, something revolutionary. Mostly because it is something I believe and have faith in. I encourage you to do whatever it is you want to do. You just have to get up and do it.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Turning Tables, Rudy Francisco.



You are a sentence with no punctuation. A kaleidoscope full of colors that I don’t remember learning in elementary school. Your voice, is the sound I’ve been looking for my entire life. 
Your smile. The only sunrise worth setting my alarm clock early enough to see. If I could, I would shape shift into the first thing you think about in the morning, just so I could be reminded of what it’s like to wake up next to you.
I love you in a language that I don’t fully understand. In words that I haven’t found enough courage to forklift out of my chest. I hear that karma is vengeful and also a light sleeper, so I’ve chosen to love you like this.
Quietly. So I’ll call your phone and hang up before it actually rings. I’ll write you letters that you’ll never read. And when I see you in public, I’ll stick my hand inside of a bagful of things that I haven’t done since you left me and pull out a smile. I’ll say something like, “Hello”. “It’s nice to see you”. 
And then I’ll keep walking. 

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Summer Holga!














NYC!

Going to NEW YORK with one of my best friends at the end of July to see The Strivers Row, a beautiful BEAUTIFUL group of performance artists. I'm so excited. Actually, excited doesn't even sum it up. Joshua Bennett, a spoken word artist, is my favorite of the group and inspires me beyond belief. 

This one gives me goosebumps every time I listen to it:




"Hoping that I could literally steal a glance 
download it on my retinas and replay the moment our eyes first played freeze tag 
and neither one of us wanted to stop being it 
so we just kept on touching 
hoping that Father Time would give us a hall pass 
and allow us to orbit one another forever 
and speaking of orbits
did you know that there are more stars in the sky
than grains of sand on the entire planet
and that I would give you either one if you merely asked
build the night from the sky’s skin
like the rind of an orange
or ask God if I could borrow the breeze for just a moment
and blow the shoreline of every beach
into a giant hour-glass made just for us and say
this is how long I will adore the things about you that no one else even notices”

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Yay!

Check out my photo of James in the Gleaner Community Press!