things I learned
your mind will be full of a swirl of emotions and ideas
daring you to pick one out
for years
scenes from early life vol. 1
My father drove, my mother sat in the passenger seat and looked out the window, the muscles in her face
firenze
Traveling alone in florence days before my friends wedding, alone and under slept
After nights awake on cocaine and flights
lessons of our past
my mother was put up for adoption by young parents in a time when a child out of a wedlock
transformers
imagine a species
on a planet made of water
rotating a ball of fire
speeding through space
and on that
repetition
waking up shaking out the cobwebs
to the feeling of nervousness
as if you woke up in a meeting
coffee
what we don't see
life is hard when you think it should be perfect
or hope that it will be
how did we ever
when we blame our parents for who we've become
sometimes when we are feeling broken
(especially for those of us who grew up with "broken" families)
we
the unbearable weight of regret
I remember reading a quote once
: "i'm a man with a lot of regrets but I don&