From One Nerd to Another

Monday, February 10, 2014

Day 39 and 40

The penguin cares not,

that he can't fly, he figures

swimming is the same

Sometimes I think I'd

like to be a goldfish and

forget everything.

Day 37 and 38

The chameleon

really knows how to live, a

new day, a new skin

The elephant is

disappointed, but he can't

seem to recall why.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Day 34, 35 and 36…sorry I was asleep on the job...

Somedays I am weak

and I just need a neck to
wrap my arms around

In a perfect world
everyone would have a pair
of arms to hold them

At some point we must
throw in the towel and admit
that we need some help

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Day 33

If you too end up
to be another mistake
you'd be the best one

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Day 31 and 32

before and after I took some headshots

I like to think that
we're all meant to be happy
we just fuck it up

Hippopotamus
most dangerous animal
really needs a friend

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Day 30

There's nothing quite like

the silent companionship

of a loyal dog

Day 28 and 29

I will bite through my
lip with my very own teeth
and show you no tears

The clock ticks along
to the pulse of my own heart
years are passing by

Monday, January 27, 2014

Day 26 and 27

Your voice to me is
a lighthouse while out at sea
I come and I'm home

It is enough to
look in the mirror and like
what looks back at me

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Day 25

Some days the walls of
our fish tank are barriers
and others, windows.

Friday, January 24, 2014

Day 24

We are all just a

lot of water with some blood

and fucked up feelings

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Day 23

Just because someone

let it happen does not make

that action ok

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Day 22

I've been loosing sleep.
I toss and turn, the bed feels
too big without you.

it's only Wednesday…?

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Day 21

I have cried today
and that's ok, we all need
to release what hurts.

Hell yeah that's bread.

Monday, January 20, 2014

Read between the lines

If books have taught me anything

(and they’ve taught me a lot)

it's that you are a beautiful person

by no other definition

than the fact that

I find you beautiful

in your own way

in the way you see me

in the way you see the world

The Second thing

I have learned from books

(if I've learned anything)

is that

for the love of God

do not let that

beautiful person

Day 20

I'm in the middle

not quite miserable, yet not

quite happy either.

My grandfather's flannel

Sunday, January 19, 2014

My first book review of the year!
And I'm starting off with
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka.

In Otsuka's Pen/Failkner Award Winning novel for fiction we follow the lives of Japanese picture brides in the early 1900's. We follow the many stories of these women as they travel by boat from their home lands to this new foreign country. We are with them as they meet their husbands, work, and bare children throughout their new lives in America. Through Otsuka's beautiful writing style we become one with these women and their lives, we feel their journey as if it were our own.

I give this book 9 out of 10 stars

I LOVED this book. The title and the cover caught my attention at first, I had never heard of it and I just picked it up and decided to give it a try. Man am I glad I did. It's a super quick read it's only about 130 pages roughly. I love Otsuka's writing style, she doesn't write in the conventional sense of perspective. Instead of writing from one woman's point of view or even a third person omniscient perspective but from the perspective of the group of women collectively. It's so interesting and I've never read anything written quite like it. Overall this book is a wonderful look at a culture and time period radically different from our own. It's a great mix of history with a fictional voice, I highly recommend it. This is the second of Otsuka's novels and you can be sure I'm going to read her first. So if you like this one, stay tuned for When the Emperor was Divine.