Today

Some people are lousy;

and some - hardly happy.

Me - I am just drowsy, dreaming.

Sept. 6th 2008

She has an oral fixation.

Smoking cigarettes, bitting the tips of her blotched nails -

Chewing, the string that hangs from a torn sweater.

To see is not enough, to taste can set you free.

She can taste the air on a dull summer night, clouds hanging low.

On her tongue -

Sweet juices melt.

Humidity dampens her hair, curls unfurl over grey eyes.

An image of a woman drowning.

Mr. Sandman, Bring Me A Dream...

I think I may be one of the few people who wake up in the morning and remember, quite vividly, Mr. Sandman's gift of DREAMS. I have decided to start recording my dreams - Wouldn't it be super cool if there were some new and profound technology that somehow could record dreams, capture the images, the sequence of random events that take place in our sleep? Just the other night I had a dream that I was an English princess aboard a giant ship and I was being held captive, but I managed to jump overboard, swim to shore, and build a new life. I also once had a dream that dinosaurs invaded Barrie (the city) and I hid in a sailboat while a T-rex ate an old lady and I then flew away...Not to mention my re-occurring dreams of vampires hunting me, and ONLY me. I swear, I never want to wake up because what my sub-conscious conjures up before my eyes in my sleep are stories, movies that I can't find anywhere else. They are embedded in intense symbolism and for some reason I ALWAYS remember them when I awake.

Reminiscent on a fine day's walk.

I have decided to bring my blog back to life, sadly it has been dead for 3 months and I wish to redeem my loss of words by bringing back to you my words via the wonderful world of the wide web. (Or not so wonderful? You choose..)

Today, I walked to the bank. A twig got caught in my flip flop and stabbed my toe, so that as I entered the bank I had blood dripping all over my feet and then my water bottle leaked in my purse. Bad day? I'd say a bad walk. But, I did see 2 butterflies; one white, one blue. That was nice.

I did wake up to snow yesterday, today I woke up to the sun. Such a contrast, in weather, in feeling, in dreaming, in being...I feel like I am something one minute and then a totally different person the next. Like the weather..from snow, to sun, to rain, to dryness, to dampness, to humidity. Is there still a balance - on Earth? In my mind..In my heart?

Calico Heavens

For my blog, I am going to post something a bit different today.

I am a writer, I love to write. My passion lies in poetry and I have been creating such pieces for a while now. I have never exposed my work outside of classes, so today is going to be the first time!

Here is a short poem I wrote about a year ago that is one of my favorites.

Calico Heavens

Beautiful, the weather is today.

A spectrum of colours, ceaseless light,

continuous harmony.

The Aurora Borealis seems deem in disguise

Peculiar happenings, feelings of devotion.

Mist lingers, gray and damp.

Darkness bathes behind your eye,

Clenching lukewarm hands around my throat.

Northern winds drift, southern warmth seeps in-

wind can not be silenced during departure.

Curiously, I coast towards you.

Yellow sun you bare my life,

Rid my conscience of strife.

Temporarily -

Until the mountains swallow your gold.

Alice in Burton-Land

From The Grimm Brothers, to Disney, to Tim Burton.

The modern preacher of fairy tales has transcended traditional portrayals of folklore.

Alice In Wonderland, originally created by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in 1862 has been adapted numerous times over the decades, currently being re-mastered by Tim Burton.

We all know Mr.Burton as the curious figure who brought us A Nightmare Before Christmas and now the well anticipated Alice In Wonderland is soon to be released.

Lewis Carroll took Dodgson's idea of a young girl falling into a rabit hole and made it into a classic piece of children's literature. I just finished reading the book and I am dying to see Burton's adaptation.

Many works of literature have been re-shaped by various artistic geniuses, for example Jane Yolen's version of Sleeping Beauty which follows a girl's journey in discovering her grandmother's past during the Holocaust.

The fairy tales that we all know have been around for a very long time and I look forward to seeing how our creative minds in this generation perceive such traditional folklore.

Santa to the Rescue!

So, I know all you girls out there who have a special guy are going CRAZY thinking about what to buy him for Christmas, well I'd like to share with you MY list of fun gifts for him!

Christmas presents to get your man!

1. yuk yuk tickets

2. hockey tickets

3.personalized boxers (you can even do it yourself)

4. A goldfish

5. An awesome piece of artwork to balance out the posters of sports cars on his wall :)