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kathleen

life is messy, clean it up

About Me

here still water runs deep

My Interests

change, consistency, and barn swallows

I'd like to meet:

i've already found and loved them. but maybe i should be more forgiving."Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity strength without insolence courage without ferocity and all the virtues of man without his vices This praise which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes is but a just tribute to the memory of Boatswain, a dog who was born at Newfoundland, may 1803, and died at Newstead Abbey, November 18, 1808."

Music:

pasadena silent film BLG miss bethany dinsick and bob dylan

Movies:

amores perros

Television:

not american idol

Books:

kerouac. gibran. vatsyayana. plath. tolstoy. whitman. eliot. chekov. london. dostoevsky. baldwin. nonfiction.

Heroes:

everyone ive loved, lost, or had the chance to truly see.

My Blog

sweet as straw/debralicious

mountains and deserts, what could be more inviting? this family is leaving the free state behind. it is a safe state, a passive, open, and suffocating state. a state of much being,...
Posted by kathleen on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 06:36:00 PST

lazarus

after much deliberation, i have found out that the old adage 'what one loves will destroy him' is completely true. perhaps the truest of any truth. and in the end, all i can ask of myself is that...
Posted by kathleen on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:41:00 PST

shake me, for i was startled

  i just wrote this because some of my friends died. some things are actually beautiful up close. if life was meant to be so black and white, so objectivethen whats the 'function' of a sunflower ...
Posted by kathleen on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 06:45:00 PST

a story

an alaskan trapper named lawrence carson tracked a wolf that had dragged one of his traps more than twenty miles and found him hung upside down by the dragline on a steep hillside. he disentangled the...
Posted by kathleen on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 05:20:00 PST

56% chance of death: ive killed him before.

    warning: over 56% of the heart of this story is missing. i wonder if ive enough heart to continue, i cannot swallow all that ive done. fragments of light make the darkness seem less...
Posted by kathleen on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 08:54:00 PST

if anything ever happens to me, at least people can't say i didn't love her

http://www.bloggingbaby.com/entry/1234000447069560   mr. terrell pough's senseless death is an outrage. it really shakes the faith. it really makes a mockery of 'justice'. but at least he saved h...
Posted by kathleen on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:21:00 PST

two headed boy (NMH)

'god is a place you will wait for the rest of your life' ...in the dark we will take off our clothes, and there will be lacing fingers through the notches in your spine...   i collect purple circ...
Posted by kathleen on Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:53:00 PST