Category Archives: Big City
New York City. She’s a rare thing.
The morning you move to New York City will be as distinct as the day when birds first learned it was in their blood to sing. Oh, can you imagine what happened in the trees that day? You’ll delight in … Continue reading
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And then a ballerina emerges from the crowd. Tattered shoes. Blistered feet. The Big City lifts her from the waist and she’s up, up, up. Kissing the Sky.
I have high hopes of one day being a car wreck of a romantic. Of one day lending my heart out, as if it were a well-read library book, to someone who would have no choice but to rip the return … Continue reading
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Show me a girl with pencil shavings on her forehead and an imaginary cousin by her side and I’ll show you a fireworks display more smashing than July 4th.
Picture a girl in elementary school, legs as thin and long like two yard sticks holding up a torso, anxiously rubbing pencil shavings onto her forehead in the girls’ bathroom before running out the door to meet her imaginary Italian … Continue reading
Filed under Big City, Big Dreams, Humanity, Passion, Thank You
And for a short fix of time, he and I were just two children sleeping in your arms, cradled by your transit line.
The lurch of the subway that followed closely after the full stop sent the sleeping child straight into my lap. He did not move. He did not stir. I looked around for a parent to step forward and scoop the … Continue reading
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Let’s Turn Our Lives into A Christmas Carol that the World Just Itches to Hear A Single Note of.
So I have been on Facebook for the past half hour and it is official. Facebook Official, if you will call it that. There is no way to defriend your own self on Facebook. Come on Mark Zuckerberg, how did … Continue reading
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Becoming a “New Yorker”: Glass slippers don’t make for an easy morning commute.
The first time I attempted to be a real New Yorker I was nearly hit by a car. For the longest time, looking like I belonged in New York City came with a belief in the practicality of impractical shoes … Continue reading
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Keep painting the world, dipping all your brushes into the same big bucket called “A Better Place.”
I learned at sleep-away bible camp in the 5th grade that God had messed up in making me. One) It is beyond me why a bunch of camp counselors would make a bunk full of homesick, Bible-toting adolescents draw pictures … Continue reading
Filed under Big City, Big Dreams, Disconnect, For a Better World, Love Is..., Reality
The City is a Living Lullaby: Before & After. Me to We.
I have not needed a lullaby in seventeen years… Last night the strident sounds of an insomniac city pulled at my eyelids and slid me into safe slumber. Those same sounds– the rhythm of a basketball dribbling in the distance … Continue reading
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