Sleepless night internet searching led me to this painting. It’s called “Spring Beauty,” by Anne Michelsen, and the blog post the artist wrote to accompany it makes it even more beautiful. Life and loss. Death and regrowth. Vanitas; futility. Nothing matters…but…maybe that means -everything- matters.

I want it to.

It’s been a while s…[Read more]

Thursday, 5/14/15

My brother took me on a trip to New Orleans. Not really a fun or touristy trip. More like an escape, but running isn’t the same thing as escaping. It’s only escaping if you actually get away. I know now, 9 days after returning to Hathian, that I didn’t get away. I don’t know about him. I don’t know.

There were a million t…[Read more]

Wednesday, 4/22/15

Music video – “Stars” – Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

Could ashes really reach outer space? My brother told me once that all of life on Earth is made from stardust. If we return to dust, how can we rise? Where do we go?

It’s hard to look at the night sky and imagine they’re all up there, everyone who’s floated away, not g…[Read more]

Wednesday, 4/22/15

Could ashes really reach outer space? My brother told me once that all of life on Earth is made from stardust. If we return to dust, how can we rise? Where do we go?

It’s hard to look at the night sky and imagine they’re all up there, everyone who’s floated away, not gone but out of reach. It’s sad…but only sad for those…[Read more]

Sunday, 4/12/15

In honor of #ShakespeareSunday, this. It feels especially relevant with what’s happening where I live right now. A few months back my hometown was under martial law, and now, even hundreds of miles away, I’m in the midst of this upheaval again. Riots. A public execution. Now there’s an order from the police to stay indoo…[Read more]

Sunday, 4/5/15

This reminds me of the woods back home. 🙂 Just because a tree looks ragged and bare doesn’t mean it’s without life…and it doesn’t deserve to be called ugly or creepy, however old and twisted it might be.

Family is so important. It’s everything. It’s where we begin and, if we’re lucky or maybe blessed, fate will always guide…[Read more]

Saturday, 4/4/15 ((no image with this post))

My World
college classes, Louisiana USA, campus life, burgers at the Gein, coffee at the Daily Grind
city sounds
the beach under all different skies
nightfall
the silence
sometimes it’s deafening

4/4/15 ((no image with this post))

My World
college classes, Louisiana USA, campus life, burgers at the Gein, coffee at the Daily Grind
city sounds
the beach under all different skies
nightfall
the silence
sometimes it’s deafening

I had to make my username on here, “chimeramirrored,” after a bunch of variations of my usual one weren’t available. What is a chimera? There are a few different definitions, and I didn’t know this one til now.

a fire-breathing she-monster in Greek mythology having a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail

An impossible creature, a “…[Read more]