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| User: | wishiwasaturtle (1111752)
catch my breath and call your name
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| Name: | white fire of a great mystery |
| Location: | Tallahassee, Florida, United States |
| Birthdate: | 1984-06-28 |
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| wishiwasaturtle | @ | livejournal.com (Jabber) |
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| AOL IM: |  iamnotamazing (Add Buddy, Send Message) |
| Bio: | the ponds
every year
the lilies
are so perfect
i can hardly believe
their lapped light crowding
the black,
mid-summer ponds.
nobody could count all of them--
the muskrats swimming
among the pads and the grasses
can reach out
their muscular arms and touch
only so many, they are that
rife and wild.
but what in this world
is perfect?
i bend closer and see
how this one is clearly lopsided--
and that one wears an orange blight--
and this one is a glossy cheek
half nibbled away--
and that one is a slumped purse
full of its own
unstoppable decay.
still, what i want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled--
to cast aside the weight of facts
and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.
i want to believe i am looking
into the white fire of a great mystery.
i want to believe that the imperfections are nothing--
that the light is everything-- that it is more than the sum
of each flawed blossom rising and fading. and i do.
mary oliver
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| Interests: | 53: adbusters, alix olson, american beauty, ani difranco, another roadside attraction, assisi, beatles, ben folds five, billy collins, bowl of oranges, bright eyes, canoes, climbing trees, dancing, daoism, djembes, east of eden, feminism, girl interrupted, girls with guitars, indigo girls, jeanette winterson, knitting, les murray, life, live oaks, mary of guadalupe, mary oliver, music, neurotic dogs, nose piercings, o'keeffe, oscar wilde, pablo neruda, pianos, radiohead, river hiking, scottie, shaved heads, skirts, snow cones, stability, steel drums, summer, tallahassee, the grapes of wrath, the self, tom robbins, truth, ultimate frisbee, venice, wisdom, women's studies |
| Schools: | None listed |
| Friends: |  | 39: | abitterbastard, andwedanced, apstylin, bethanethia, brownietime, cantholdstars, dayadhvam, doktorslekar, dreamyscottie, erockthesocks, flowerviolence, fruitthief, hazeliscool, hippow, ilikemusik, jasminia, jesuswhatamess, jfunkthemonk, kattacular, kim_jong_il__, lgjay4christ, mark_strand, marshgirl7, nappyjen, nevergrew, notnerbmi, nudelunachild, papasfreedoms, pinchegringo, preeho, schnamara, spunky1042, tallformyheight, tharmas, thimblebladder, time_to_kill, travelinco_1, wayawesome, xxtheswitchxx |
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| Friend of: | 36: abitterbastard, andwedanced, bethanethia, brownietime, cantholdstars, dayadhvam, doktorslekar, dreamyscottie, erockthesocks, flowerviolence, fruitthief, girlgeorge, hazeliscool, hippow, ilikemusik, jasminia, jesuswhatamess, jfunkthemonk, kattacular, mark_strand, nappyjen, nevergrew, notnerbmi, nudelunachild, papasfreedoms, pinchegringo, preeho, spunky1042, tallformyheight, thimblebladder, time_to_kill, travelinco_1, trippingdaisy, wayawesome, xgolightlyx, xxtheswitchxx |
| Member of: | 3: gainesville, gainesvilleswap, ufstudents |
| Account type: | Basic Account |
