Archive for ‘May, 2009’
There is always another way out. Your same imagination that has you in its trap can have you anywhere else. Have you ever known someone who came to the brink, believed in the trap, then found a way free?
In quiet rooms with no one else our secrets are the loudest. Do you have secret plans for anyone you know?
I want to live in a world where pearls cannot be sold or traded, only given; cannot be formed or manufactured, only discovered. I want us to forswear jewelry stores and aquaculture, to dive for treasure without wetsuits or scuba tanks. I have been training to hold my breath. The pearl I am saving was [...]
Seven seconds is an eternity in eye contact—a heart-pausing eternity. Do you remember amazing moments of eye contact with strangers? Have you ever wanted to talk to a stranger with whom you have just made eye contact?
What is an impossible thing to do, that would not even be very useful, but you wish you could anyway?
Have you ever wondered if someone was really listening? Or why they pretended to listen in the first place? Or why you do?
There is an inside joke here. I always wanted to draw a bracelet but I could not think of any way to distinguish it from other circles, besides putting it on a wrist.
Is Lawrence an optimist, a romantic, or simply delusional? Underneath it all, is he setting himself up for disappointment every single time? Or was his illusion so attractive, for a while, that you played along with it?


