on the way

I feel the most free when I'm between places. I can always breathe more easily when I travel.

I traveled a little bit over Christmas break.

beginning sunsets

Allie and Anikki came to visit me on New Year's Day. It was a fantastic way to start 2012.

My dearest Rye,

I love you so much. The days you've gifted me have been among the most loved and filled with jeweled memory pieces that I have been given.

I wish I could hold your heart so that nobody else could break it.

tell you what you already know

Angie spent two days with me right before Christmas. They were just what I needed; she has similar views and beliefs to me, and in two hours at Waffle House, a hike to a mountain top, and prowling through fields, we had a heart-to-heart that I had been waiting for weeks to have.

those I haunt

I recently read the surrealist novel Nadja by Andre Breton, and he discusses that our identities could be defined by who we haunt.

I do not haunt people, but I leave fragments of myself behind in words and photographs.