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Katie

A Step of the Dance and the Dance of a Step

About Me

I am not who I am nor who I was nor who I will ever be again. I am this. You have never heard my voice unless you have heard me lose myself in a piano.

My Interests

The Piano, A Lack of Direction, Wheat Fields, Sunsets, Road Trips, Poetry, Music, Afternoon Naps In The Sun, Affection, Limes, A Sense of Acomplishment, Warmth, Being Content, Pillows, and Outlines.

I'd like to meet:

A Breath of Fresh Air

Music:

Chopin, Handel, Hawk Nelson, Dashboard Confessional, Bright Eyes, Creed, Plain White T's, Coldplay, Blue October,Debussy, Damien Rice, The Shins, Emery, Flogging Molly, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Incubus, Blink-182, Bad Religion, Gary Jules, Iron and Wine, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snow Patrol, Bach, Ella Fitzgerald, Motion City Soundtrack, Taking Back Sunday, Dispatch, AFI, Evanesence, Rise Against, Rocky Votolato, Regina Spektor, Crear, Guster, Nirvana, System of a Down(Adam), Angels and Airwaves, Maurice Ravel.

Movies:

V for Vendetta. The Constant Gardner. Fight Club. The Count of Monte Cristo. Dead Poet's Society. Donnie Darko. The Last Samurai.

Books:

for prodigal read generous -for youth read age- read for sheer wonder mere suprise (then turn the page)contentment read for ecstasy -for poem prose- caution for curiosity (and close your eyes)-e.e.cummingsToo many to name here, I absolutely love Catcher in the Rye East of Eden The Awakening Ethan Frome The Chronicles of Narnia The Scarlet Letter The Iliad (better than the Odyssey in my opinion) Oedipus Rex BRAVE NEW WORLD Plato's Republic The Stranger The old man and the sea 1984 Plato's Symposium The Myth of Sisyphus The House Of Seven Gables The Aenied Ecclesiastes Nicomachean Ethics

Heroes:

I have two, but they are my own secret to relish.

My Blog

First poem in a very, very long time

To become what I thought I could be       I remember it well To swim in a clear pool      Tugging on my hair To taste the meaning of a touch   &n...
Posted by Katie on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 04:26:00 PST

Justice

 And in truth justice is, it seems, something of this sort. However, it isn't concerned with someone's doing his own externally, but with what is inside him, with what is truly himself and his ow...
Posted by Katie on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 04:17:00 PST

Can you see?

Sea and Rain
Posted by Katie on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 03:54:00 PST

That explains it

You Are An INFP The IdealistYou are creative with a great imagination, living in your own inner world.Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships.It takes a l...
Posted by Katie on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:50:00 PST

To remain unacknowledged....

One month to go..... I feel transient. Like I'm waiting for my life to start and at the same time fighting so so hard to go back, to stay, to become undone so maybe someday I'll be whole. I'm leaving...
Posted by Katie on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:57:00 PST

The Backyard Evening Performance

The shadows glide and slip towards me.       tripping over themselves in their self-oblivity Casting warped, oblong shapes onto the faded fence       ...
Posted by Katie on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:13:00 PST

The Curse Of Becoming

Memories. As Perfect, glass vases filled with flowers blooming into every shade of desire. I poured myself into them. To give them breath. To lose myself in their depth. If I fold myself up tightly en...
Posted by Katie on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:07:00 PST

Julia's "About Me" (Sorry hun, I had to steal it. It's just so good!)

If there was no such word as love, our vocabulary would be richer and wed have to struggle harder to find the right words. Everyone would be so long-winded and Shakespearian in their range of emotiona...
Posted by Katie on Sat, 17 Jun 2006 08:14:00 PST

My Senior Letter

Dear Family and Friends, The time has come in my life to begin folding away the memories of my childhood and boxing the keepsakes I have amassed over the years in preparation for a new beginning. A ...
Posted by Katie on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 02:41:00 PST

6-8-06

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Posted by Katie on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:24:00 PST