I've equipped myself with a few items:
- Nachos and queso cheese
- Portable heater to keep my feet warm and snugly
- awesome grandpa pajama pants for lounging
- A book to read should I get too nervous watching the news
- My computer to surf the net
- Halloween Candy for munching
- and tissues should things not turn out the way i want it to.
Luckily I qualified for an absentee ballot so i got to avoid the long lines at the polls. I don't get a cool 'I voted' sticker though, which would have gotten me a free coffee and donut at various stores.
This is only my second election and I am freaking out. I don't talk about politics on this blog because I don't want to alienate anyone who may have a different view from my own. But I am really hoping that this historic election results in our nation getting a president that speaks of change. It's time for a change.
Back to flipping channels. I can't bear the tension of election day, I may have to watch the cartoon network for a while.
5 comments:
i happened upon your journal on accident. i did so because i am reading 'slaughterhouse-five' and needed to know how "everything was beautiful, ¬hing hurt" came into existance.
maybe vonnegut wrote it.
but i think you did.
only because the book talks about time travel. and things too make believe for anyone to really believe.
but, i believe, based on what i have read, that you are a writer.
and bukowski said that you shouldn't write, if it doesn't come exploding out of you.
and i say, "yes. you are a writer. and, yes. love is hidden in blood&ink&skin."
my favorite poet is james kavanaugh.
he said:
"to you,
who have lived long enough
to hear your own voice,
who will continue to search
even if you never find,
who will only settle for love."
i say, you are one of these.
so, please be a writer.
please discover.
please fall in love.
love,
-this boy.
I think that is by far the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.
I question writing all the time. I am learning that it is not something that comes easily to me. I am exerting everything to get my thoughts out there and hoping that they make enough sense to mean something.
Thank you for your kind words. They mean more to me than you'll ever know.
~Beckett
jeez. what kind of comment can i possibly leave that compares with *sleeprsleepr*?
i'll just slink off now.
after saying: w00t! for the election, and congrats to you for voting!
dearest frogboots,
basically, you have frogboots, not only as a alias, but also as a picture/avatar. so, never slink off. :) you're wonderful.
i've used emoticons, so now, i will go ahead and slink off.
i like to write, though i think i overuse commas.
dearest beckett amelia hughes,
thank you.
and i am learning that too. i suppose i don't know if i want to make a career of such things. but, i lovelovelove to write. and it seems to be the only means to remind me of where i have been. or, perhaps, even where i will be.
what kind of writing are you hoping to do? if i can prolong contact with a few more questions? :)
i think you should listen to "owen". perhaps, you will love them. i've been on a mixtape craze lately. and, found a few gems. they aren't brilliant, but brilliant enough for quiet nights, wishing for impossible things, under impossible stars.
i guess i will stop there.
take care. and yes, thank god for election turnout. i just may have enough faith to hold on a bit longer.
-matthew
p.s. sorry, i never capitalize anything. i feel self-conscious about such things. but i like lower-case. meh. night!
Right now, I'm interested in writing fiction. That would be ideal for my career. But fiction gives me a few problems. I get stunted in character development and settings and I can't seem to finish a cohesive story.
I write poetry with a lot more ease, but it's never been something I'm comfortable submitting. It's seems to intimate and personal. So those are writings I keep to myself.
Realistically, I want to do the sort of writing I do on this blog. More in the nonfiction genre, more on my observations on life and the times. I think stories about people and their perspectives are the most interesting works, so it's something that i am working on these days.
I think a collection of essays would be pretty cool to write and get published eventually, should i ever finish them.
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