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~Melissa~

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About Me

"I know nothing
with any certainty
but the sight of the stars
makes me dream."
-Vincent Van Gogh

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My Blog

Clapton

"The thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweet yet painful hopes" -Eric Clapton
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:36:00 GMT

memoir

Just For A Time-Maya Angelou   Oh how you used to walk With that insouciant smile I liked to hear you talk And your style Pleased me for a while   You were my early love New as a day in Spri...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:11:00 GMT

The Crippling

I used to watch in on the ledge: a crippled bird. How did it survive? Surely it would die soon. Then I saw a man at one of the windows fed it, a few seeds, a crust from lunch. Often he forgot and it w...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:34:00 GMT

snow is hard

the end.
Posted by on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:56:00 GMT

Changing

It occurs to me now, I never see you smiling anymore.  Friends praise your humor rich, your phrases turning on a thin dime.  For me your whit is honed to killing sharpness. But I never catch...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:37:00 GMT

Words

Be careful of words, even the miraculous ones. For the miraculous we do our best, sometimes they swarm like insects and leave not a sting but a kiss. They can be as good as fingers. They can be a...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:40:00 GMT

Superhero Birthday Bash

thanks to everyone that came...I had so much fun!  Here are a few pics of the good times.
Posted by on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:59:00 GMT

Song-Cecilia Meireles

I placed my dream in a boatand the boat into the sea;Then I ripped the sea with my handsso that my dream would sink.My hands are still wetwith the blue of splashed waves,and the color that runs from m...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 10:45:00 GMT

So this is not what I meant when I said I needed to get rid of my car.

So I almost died last night.  I was driving home from work in Evergreen, and was going around a bend, skidded on gravel on the road, and lost control of my car.  I think I may have over corr...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:02:00 GMT

Hemingway

"'It's a very strange thing,' he said. 'This drink tastes exactly like remorse. It has the true taste of it and yet it takes it away.'"
Posted by on Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:19:00 GMT