absolutely sweetness! this wee child was a dream to work with. LL Bean will be beating down her door! She was the perfect model!
Monday, April 23, 2007
Saturday, April 21, 2007
swandive
cradling the softest, warmest part of you in my hand
feels like a little baby bird fallen from the nest
i think that your body is something i understand
i think that i'm happy, i think that i'm blessed
i've got a lack of inhibition
i've got a loss of perspective
i've had a little bit to drink
and it's making me think
that i can jump ship and swim
that the ocean will hold me
that there's got to be more
than this boat i'm in
Friday, April 20, 2007
Monday, April 16, 2007
sadness
Today was such a sad day for our country and our young people that I don't feel like posting but it's been so long... and maybe the words will make me feel better.
On a day like today you hear yourself ask the questions over and over again "why? how does this happen... how does life get so bad for an individual that they have no other option but to pull a gun on another human being?"
The utter sadness is enough to make me put my head under a pillow. But instead I will tell my son I love him, that I am proud of him and that he too should be proud of the person he is. I believe that barring mental illness, it begins with love. If we are not loved we don't learn to love ourselves, we do not learn how to love others. The pain and despair these people feel and lead them to these completely irrationally choices... could it have been avoided?
Yesterday, just yesterday I was saying to a friend that I believe the universe sometimes comes together to create something that is meant to be (like my son being born, like my birth). But today I have to again question why things like this happen. It simply isn't possible that there is a bigger picture in this situation. Is there? What good will come of this? Ask the parents of these students... the girlfriends, fiances, boyfriends, sisters and brothers... where is the light at the end of their tunnel?
I have not felt this way since Sept 11. The helplessness, the utter despair of what has happened. Blame will be passed back and forth... everyone but the shooter will be blamed. Blame the administration, gun control, the school... the staff... but the simple fact is that you don't SHOOT PEOPLE. We want to believe that we are all good inside, on a daily basis... you just don't see this happening. Do you?
The event will be covered 24 hours a day for the next 7 days or more... and we will inevitably be desensitized to what happened... like Columbine and everything that followed. Because the human brain can not take so much pain... we can not process what we see. We can only hold the sadness for so long.
So tomorrow turn off CNN and kiss your children and tell them you love them and that they are GOOD and beautiful. That they are worth the world, that they are special, that they are something...that they are everything. Do not belittle, do not expect more than they can give, do not tear them down. Love them and everything else will be ok.
On a day like today you hear yourself ask the questions over and over again "why? how does this happen... how does life get so bad for an individual that they have no other option but to pull a gun on another human being?"
The utter sadness is enough to make me put my head under a pillow. But instead I will tell my son I love him, that I am proud of him and that he too should be proud of the person he is. I believe that barring mental illness, it begins with love. If we are not loved we don't learn to love ourselves, we do not learn how to love others. The pain and despair these people feel and lead them to these completely irrationally choices... could it have been avoided?
Yesterday, just yesterday I was saying to a friend that I believe the universe sometimes comes together to create something that is meant to be (like my son being born, like my birth). But today I have to again question why things like this happen. It simply isn't possible that there is a bigger picture in this situation. Is there? What good will come of this? Ask the parents of these students... the girlfriends, fiances, boyfriends, sisters and brothers... where is the light at the end of their tunnel?
I have not felt this way since Sept 11. The helplessness, the utter despair of what has happened. Blame will be passed back and forth... everyone but the shooter will be blamed. Blame the administration, gun control, the school... the staff... but the simple fact is that you don't SHOOT PEOPLE. We want to believe that we are all good inside, on a daily basis... you just don't see this happening. Do you?
The event will be covered 24 hours a day for the next 7 days or more... and we will inevitably be desensitized to what happened... like Columbine and everything that followed. Because the human brain can not take so much pain... we can not process what we see. We can only hold the sadness for so long.
So tomorrow turn off CNN and kiss your children and tell them you love them and that they are GOOD and beautiful. That they are worth the world, that they are special, that they are something...that they are everything. Do not belittle, do not expect more than they can give, do not tear them down. Love them and everything else will be ok.
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