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| I'm reading this book right now, Caramelo, by Sandra Cisneros. If you haven't read any of her work (The House on Mango Street, Loose Woman, etc.) you should definitely check her out. Her language is intoxicating. Here's a little from Caramelo...
"Everybody needs a lot. The whole world needs a lot. Everyone, the women frying lunch putting arm coins in your hand. The market sellers asking-What else? The taxi drivers racing to make the light. The baby pouring on a mother's fat shoulder. Welders, firemen, grandmothers, bank tellers, shoeshine boys, and diplomats. Everybody, every single one needs a lot. The planet swings on its axis, a drunk trying to do a pirouette. Me, me, me! Every fist with an empty glass in the air. The earth throbbing like a field ready to burst into a dandelion."
"I look up, and la Virgen looks down at me, and, honest to God, this sounds like a lie, but it's true. The universe a cloth, and all humanity interwoven. Each and every person connected to me, and me connected to them, like the strands of a rebozo. Pull one string and the whole thing comes undone. Each person who comes into my life affecting the pattern, and me affecting theirs."
Amen. Merry Christmas. I hope that you all have a lovely holiday and know that I love you dearly.
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| So, life's been nuts since we've gotten back to school. I'll write a real update later, but for now I'm just looking to put off studying for these midterms. Just to let you know, I'm doing a thousand times better than I was last semester/last year. I still have my moments, but overall I'm so much happier. I'm single. I've finally adjusted to it. Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't, but I do have a much better idea for what I want in a relationship someday, and I am pretty confident that what I want is not at Truman and not in Kirksville. And I'm okay with that. I'm willing to wait for it :). Update to come soon, I promise! | | |
| you know, there's nothing like driving with the windows down and your hands peeking through the sunroof late at night singing and dancing to Annie Lennox. Summer is here **smile** | | |
| oh goodness i'm just ready to go home.
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| You know, researching this paper has led me to realize how increasingly dissatisfied I am becoming with women's roles in the Catholic Church. Sometimes I wish that other faiths had the Eucharist... | | |
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