Ode to Waffles

Oh waffles you are oh so delicious

Yet with your whole grain goodness

Also quite nutritious

I love breakfast foods. I really enjoy (and happen to be in complete agreement) that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, it provides me with an excellent excuse to stuff my face with plenty of yummy treats. I'm not a breakfast snob either nor am I culturally indifferent to certain breakfast traditions. I will pretty much eat every breakfast food out there, and be delighted to do so probably in one sitting.

I'll eat breakfast at any time of day, though I am a bit partial to its original purpose of filling the morning meal slot, I do enjoy a trip to IHOP in the midnight hour. In conclusion breakfast really is just dandy. And like my favorite Nickelodeon commercial says, "don't forget about breakfast time".

Life is Simple.

Though the sentence is, life is not. Life is not perfect. There is no "right" way to live. We can't as hard, as we may try, predict what is coming next nor can we ever completely understand every twist and turn we encounter. Each event that takes place has a complex stream of decisions that helped it come to be. And each decision was ruled into existence by an emotion from a singular human being. And you know as well as I that emotions are not always rational. So how can life be simple, when it is based on so many factors that can, at any minute, completely change? That's the magic of it though, its not. Life is not simple. Just Beautiful. 

Like the Tang of a Lemon

Its a funny feeling

sinking reeling

wonderin' where your head's at.

Trotting down your own path

trying not to look back

wonderin' what's ahead of you.

Hoping there's and open door

that you'll find what you're looking for

wonderin' how you're supposed to know.

Taking every chance you get

doing things you wont forget

wonderin' if this is it.

Working hard to fill your mind

looking far for what you'll find

wonderin' what to believe in.

Staring out the window

making life go slow

wonderin' when things will make sense.

Wind is blowing hear its cries

sun leaks in your tight shut eyes

wonderin' when this ends.

If you don't got sumthin nice to say don't say nuthin at all

The rain is falling outside my window

But you don't know this window

This isn't the window that you threw rocks at to make me come outside

This isn't the window that you've looked out probably a million times

This isn't the window you pointed to and said I know that one is yours

This isn't the window you told me to look out while you waited in my drive way

This isn't the window we smiled through when you had to go

This isn't the window I looked out as we talked on the phone

This isn't the window that you know

Its not the same and those memories fade

The rain is falling outside my window

Is it falling outside of yours

Lazy, Jubilee, Mystery, Excitement, SUMMER.

Summer time is happy and easy. People smile for no reason. I miss the jubilee of summer time. I miss constantly smelling like chlorine and little sticky hands from popsicles. I miss the feel of sand beneath my calloused feet. I miss the breeze through my hair as I coast down the hill on my bike. I miss sundresses and sandals. I miss the smell of warm grass baking in sunshine.

Summer is the time when we're free, where we can just be. I miss the laziness of summer. I miss the whirl of my ceiling fan. I miss the gritty concrete of the pool deck on my back. I miss summer naps in the cool shade of the big tree in the park. I miss slow walks with wandering conversations. I miss all day in my swim suit. I miss the warmth of sunshine on my closed eyes.

Summer is full of fun. I miss the excitement of summer. I miss bright eyes watching fireworks. I miss the car ride to the beach full of anticipation. I miss the pounding of loud music in my stomach. I miss the roar of roller coasters. I miss the garish colors of the morning. I miss doing stupid things with the people I love. I miss the icy rush through my veins when I sink into an unheated pool.

Summer is Beautiful and wondrous. I miss the mystery of summer. I miss summer besos. I miss midnight swims. I miss the rush of adrenaline pushing through my body when I almost get caught playing fugitive. I miss the pure joy of accidently running into your best friend around town. I miss summer crushes. I miss the vast summer sky.

I miss you summer.

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wombat combat

I wonder sometimes and I wonder some things

like why are stars in the sky and why don't I have wings.

And if dinosaurs died how'd a mouse make it out

why when I'm mad do I have to shout.

How can something so perfect cause so much pain

why is lobster best from maine.

Is my soul really hanging in suspense

are you really that dense.

When will I find what makes me most happy

why do movies make me so sappy.

Do you really have to fall to be in love

is a pigeon really a type of dove.

Why do we signify death with burials

and why does Australia have so many marsupials.

Gelati

Once while in Italy I was walking around Piazza delle Erbe and a man offered to buy me a gelato. I accepted, but we soon learned that our conversation could go no further than greetings, as he knew very little english, and I very little Italian. And so we sat on the steps of an old cathedral and ate our gelati in silence. There was something very poetic about that moment, something that makes me feel real. I think about this moment whenever I am feeling small and insignificant. It grounds me. To think that even though we couldn't communicate in a conventional way we were still connected. I like this about people, once all of the hustle and bustle of modern day life is stripped away we're all the same. We're all just wanting some company. Someone to sit with and just be.

A Handful of Happiness

There are a few tiny things in life that can make my day infinitely more happy than when I woke up to the most depressing sound in my world, the high pitch beeping of my alarm. One Major component to a happy day is sunshine.

Another simple thing that can make my day just a little bit better is a smile from a stranger.

And of course good music like my favorite song right now, Stole My Heart, by Little and Ashley.