May 2010
3 posts
in a move to make my life cleaner:
www.sayacate.wordpress.com
sorry, though, to clutter up yours! this is the last shift, I promise. tumblr has been good to me, really—I’m not one for technology, but wordpress is just this fantastically good use of web space. my father and elisabeth both use it, too, so maybe I just subconsciously feel the family peer pressure (yes: we all blog).
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the next day
I believe in touch; Sarah Morris says that in order to feel loved you must be touched five times a day, and ever since she said that I find myself unconsciously counting—one, two, three—four—five—and it is true, that these small touches are significant. I know and recognize them, filing them into categories in my mind: my mother’s soft lotion touch, my sister’s backrub, the way Lily curls her baby...
there is great need for change in this world, and indeed, it is broken. even in this urban, sheltered world of chapel hill—where term papers, late nights studying for exams and the carolina heat are our easiest provokers—it is not easy to forget this. we are confronted by it when we read the senate bill 1070 and are gripped with the privileged life we lead or look at pictures of the...