i don't think we're in kansas anymore...
female. dreamer. (w i n g s of ink-veined crumpled paper& tin-foil shine).
sister. daughter. laugher. sobber. writer.
getting older. and trying to deny it.
wishes for: a bit of pixie dust & dorothy's magic slippers. (& for fairy tales to come true.)
d r e a m s.of-a/little/piece/of/stardust&bittersweet/bladed/kisses&truth/singeing/her/mind/with/fiery/fingers&rainbow/ladders/leading/to/heaven&
meeting/her/thirty-third/cousin/in/the/place/where/paths/meet&knowing/who/she/really/is&her/dreams/actually/coming/true(f a t. c h a n c e!)
age: old enough to have acne & young enough not to know her own mind.
address: down the rabbit hole and a hard right at the edge of the world, twenty three miles past neverland and sixty-six centimeters through wonderland, the first forest-green treehouse you see (no one else has it anymore--they're all going after hot pink now, but i like it. it's soothing and blends in, but with an acidic sarcastic edge that's pure.me). it's splattered with sunset-colored splotches--we had a rather unfortunate encounter that involved autumn leaves and a vat of hot water--and has a large hole where the door should be, with singe marks around the edges (you know how puff gets when he's upset).
birthday: on the 66th day of the 666month in the year of 6666666666666666666666666666666666666 (my parents called me a marvel and the superstitious cads at our door whispered of non-existent prophesies).
favorite color: the hue of dawn.
inspirations- dawn&rainbows&anger&rain&sadness&truth.
believes in=all.men(women.children).created.equal&magic&G-d&evolution&gravity&inertia&heaven&love.
hero(ine)s-albert.einstein--mark.twain--elizabeth.c.stanton--susan.b.anthony--nelson.mandela--thomas.jefferson--charles.dickens--alexandre.dumas--sydney.carton--martin.luther.king.jr--george.washington--eleanore.roosevelt--barack obama--hilary.clinton&everyone.who's.left.a.mark.
loves:chocolate&assassins&sarcasm&blunt.honesty&tough.love&laughter&dancing.in.the.rain&fantasy&Yiddish&systematic.chaos&klutzes&family&true.friends&whispers
&enigmas&mysteries&puzzles&questions&thai.food&autumn.days.with.flakes.of.sunset.in.your.hair&sisterly.love&brotherly.love&young.love&old.love&any.love.at.all
&dirty.jokes&the.beatles&metaphors&similes&figures.of.speech&synonyms&writing&ballpoint.pens&paper&old.books.that.smell.like.baby.powder&new.books.that.smell.like.ink&words.
hates•heartbreak&overly.perky.people&stereotypes&prejudices&words.that.slice.through.you.like.knives&backstabbers&long.lectures&claustrophobia.inducing.attention
&stage.fright&awkward.silences&homophobes&hiding.who.you.are&hate&blood&war.
fears...apathy&permanence&forgetting&death&being.left.behind&time&war&fire&the.end.of.everything(&.anything)&just.living.
quotes-
"if a equals success, the formula is a=x+y+z. x is work, y is play, and z is keeping your mouth shut." -albert einstein
"i find television very educating. every time someone turns on a set, i go into the next room and read a book." -groucho marx
"it is better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." -mark twain
"these are my principals. if you don't like them, i have others."-groucho marx
"i know not with what weapons world war III will be fought, but world war IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -albert einstein
"no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -eleanore roosevelt
"either this man is dead or my watch has stopped." -groucho marx
"when you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." -thomas jefferson
"common sense is the collection of prejudices amassed by age 18." -albert einstein
"always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. that will teach you to keep your mouth shut." -ernest hemingway
"a journey of a thousand miles began with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire." -anonymous
"communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work." -will rogers
"whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -who knows?
"i have a higher and grander standard fo principal than george washington. he could not lie; i can, but i won't." -mark twain
"i have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -mark twain
"always do right. this will gratify some and astonish others." -mark twain
"only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and i'm not so sure about the former." -albert einstein
"never confuse motion with action." -ernest hemingway
"a child of five would understand this. send someone to fetch a child of five." -groucho marx
"well-behaved women seldom make history." -laura thatcher ulrich
"one and one and one is three." -the beatles, come together
"living is easy with eyes closed/misunderstanding all you see." -the beatles, strawberry fields forever
"NO BLOOD OVER OILYMPICS." -on the side of a highway
books-
pride and prejudice by jane austen
a tale of two cities by charles dickens
the count of monte cristo by alexandre dumas (except for the ending. i hated the ending. 874 pages of pure genius and then- and what then? then they sail off into the sunset like a frigging fairy tale.)
the secret life of bees by sue monk kidd
the chosen by chaim potok
the blue sword, the hero and the crown, beauty, spindle's end, and virtually anything else by robin mckinley
the foretelling by alice hoffman
the redwall saga by brian jacques, especially high rhulaine, redwall, and raggety tam. flakes of my childhood in personified mice.
six parts love by roni rabin
twilight, new moon, eclipse, breaking dawn, and the host by stephanie meyer
the harry potter series by j.k. rowling (the original twenty first century classic. if you haven't read it, you should.)
little women by louisa may alcott
rosa sat so martin could walk
so that obama could run
so that our children could fly
to my mind (if, of course, it's out there)-if you could please report to me, i would be most pleased to know that you ever existed.
o.O.o
Homophobia and You: They're people too! Stop the hate and spread the love!
I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.
I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a woman.
I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.
We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.
I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.
I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.
I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.
I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.
We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.
I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.
I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.
I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.
I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.
I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was.
I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I did not have to always deal with society hating me.
I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.
I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.
I am the person who is afraid of telling his loving Christian parents he loves another male.
Re-post this if you believe homophobia is wrong. Please do your part to end it. They never did anything to you
o.O.o
You know you live in 2008 when...
1.) You accidentally enter your password on a microwave.
2.) You haven't played solitaire with real cards for years
3.) The reason for not staying in touch with your friends is they don't have a screenname or my space
4.) You'd rather look all over the house for the remote instead of just pushing the buttons on the TV
6.) Your boss doesn't even have the ability to do your job.
7.) As you read this list you keep nodding and smiling.
8.) As you read this list you think about sending it to all your friends.
9.) And you were too busy to notice number 5.
10.) You scrolled back up to see if there was a number 5.
11.) Now you are laughing at yourself stupidly.
12.) Put this in your profile if you fell for that, and you know you did.
o.O.o
if you've ever danced between the raindrops with an umbrella dangling at your side, this is for you.
if you've ever laughed so hard tears leaked out of your eyes, this is for you.
if you've ever laughed at a funeral or cried at a wedding, this is for you.
if you've ever made a mistake and learned from it, this is for you.
if you've ever made the hard choice, this is for you.
if you've ever gone upstairs with your younger sister because she's scared of the dark, this is for you.
if you've ever read under the covers with a flashlight, trying not to wake the sibling asleep underneath you, until the words blur together into a meaningless mush, this is for you.
if you've ever had that kind of churning-stomach, heart-racing, throat-constricting nervousness, this is for you.
if you've ever shot that verbal arrow through the air and not regretted it, this is for you.
if you've ever lived your life as if it were a contest, this is for you.
if you've ever watched someone's heart break, this is for you.
if you've ever felt the difference between forever and for ever, this is for you.
if you've ever gotten so angry that you t h r e w somthing across the room, this is for you.
if you've ever looked in the mirror and liked what you saw, this is for you.
if you've ever wondered about the meaning of it all, this is for you.
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