• if you could plant one vegetable in a garden, which would it be? baby tomatoes are not worth the raccoons' attention and they are such a lovely yellow in june
• would you like to stay up late with me imagining who our children would be and picking out names for our unborn infants?
• where does your patience lie, in your ability to wait or in your ability to be waited upon?
• would you call it fucking or making love? is there a difference?
• how many people have you fallen in love with before? why did you stop loving them?
• will you tell me the moment you fall in love with me? or will you wait until you're really sure?
• how do you feel about cats, smoking pot, and girls who don't shave their legs? (obviously all right if you're seeing me)

• swimming (goal: 400m IMs). you are up to 2x 300m right now
• texting people back/being close to people
• laugh
• write about my day, think about the world in my writing
• work on schoolwork
• read (non-school related)
• do something creative: collage, sing, make dinner, imagine something
• play grounders
• play board games, cards, one night ultimate werewolf

1) sometimes you have to give someone your pain to get theirs let them hold the hurt in their palms, feel it trickle through the fingers like sand, like glass, like something fragile & dangerous. a pebble in the barrel of your best gun.

2) sometimes you have to release hurting to show you can handle another pain, to prove you can catch a tear on the back of your hand, inhale someone's sob as breath. delicately, carefully pry out the poison -- use your teeth if you must but don't by any means swallow.

3) sometimes you have to hold your own sorrow hold back your sorrys and slide, sinuously through pain, sometimes you cry at three am on your own, sometimes you cry every day at three am on your own. first, know your thirst for pain runs deep, deeper than bone, layered.

4) hearing other people's pain and holding their pain close to your own heart is n...