November 2010
4 posts
I wanna hold your...
No matter how many times a boy grabs my hand, I can never get used to the touch and how I feel when he decides to join his palm with mine.
There’s this boy at home who I have sort of a thing with. He went to high school with me, but we never talked until second semester of senior year, around April. We only knew each others’ names. I knew he played tennis. He knew I sang. But somehow...
Sound good?
When someone tells me that they think that sex is the best thing in the world, or chocolate, or love, I assume they’ve never been to a really good concert.
I love music. I am only ever at complete peace when listening to it. I have tried yoga, meditation, writing, but never am I able to connect to myself through those mediums as well as I can when I suffocate my ears with music.
I love...
Eating with purpose
My roommate is from South Africa and it’s been very interesting to see how differently she does certain things. The one difference I noticed between the two of us right away was the way she tasted food. Mbali doesn’t eat. She tastes. She chews very slowly, considers each piece of food she puts in her mouth. I can almost see her mind working as she picks up a fork, and surveys her...
Olfaction
I smell alot of questions.
I smell a change in me
soon
maybe
we’ll see.
But.
I don’t smell food. I mean I do smell food. But smell means almost nothing to me.
Scents are different. I smell scents.
lavender
coconut
the haze in the air that lingers after a match has gone out
I smell scents but I don’t smell what makes me tick.
what makes me tick I hear and I see.
I...
October 2010
1 post
Seeing
My father once told me this story about his eyes -
When he was in middle school he sat next to a boy who wore glasses. My father was always straining to see the board and could never understand why it was so hard to make out what the teacher was writing up there. Then, one day, the boy lent the spectacles to him. My father had never worn a pair and he thought the glasses were magic. Suddenly the...