I see the gray sky, dark wings and bodies cutting through it with an easy grace that alludes me. I feel the cool air touch me, lightly lift my hair around my face, lifting the gravity of my mind with it. I hear the slight sound of the wind tickling the tree tops into motion, and I think one thing: I wish that I could be this moment.

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Love is a state of being; it knows no beginning and has no end.

Time is nothing... It is the dictator of the universe, but it will never rule the hearts of those who know love.

Love After Love

The time will come

when, with elation,

you will greet yourself arriving

at your own door, in your own mirror,

and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here, Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was yourself.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart

to itself, to the stranger who was loved you

all your life, whom you ignored

for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,

peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.

-Derek Walcott

I'm so glad it's raining! I love the quote from V for Vendetta: "God is in the rain". It makes me feel so clean.

Okay, favorite book I have read this year is The Time Traveler's Wife. There wasn't even a close second. Hehe. Great book! You should definitely read it if you get the chance. It's super original and epic, in a very sedate kind of way. ^_^ Note: If you have seen the movie, know that the book is a completely different story(literally) and you should give reading it a shot, whether you liked the movie or thought it was a hell-bound atrocity. Just sayin'.

The climbing gym has been my salvation... It's SO damn hot here that I can barely stand to look outside at the searing parking lots, blurred by the startlingly well-defined heat waves exuding from them. So I have retreated indoors, for the most part, to "keep the muscle, lose the fat"(inside joke: this is the name of one of my highly idolized crack climbing routes; it's waaay too freakin' hard for me right now, but maybe someday!). The climbing gym is a fantastic place to hang... Sweet climbing, rad people, and about the best work out you could get from any indoor activity, as well as far more exciting than the traditional gym(seriously, tired of repetitious weight lifting and boring treadmills? TRY THE FREAKIN' CLIMBING GYM).

Kay, done y'all. Peace to all rad people. ^_^