Spoken Word and Rainbows

 “I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with. Tell me why you loved them, then tell me why they loved you. Tell me about a day in your life you didn’t think you’d live through. Tell me what the word “home” means to you and tell me in a way that I’ll know your mother’s name just by the way you describe your bed room when you were 8. See, I wanna know the first time you felt the weight of hate and if that day still trembles beneath your bones. Do you prefer to play in puddles of rain or bounce in the bellies of snow? And if you were to build a snowman, would you rip two branches from a tree to build your snowman arms? Or would you leave the snowman armless for the sake of being harmless to the tree? And if you would, would you notice how that tree weeps for you because your snowman has no arms to hug you every time you kiss him on the cheek? Do you kiss your friends on the cheek? Do you sleep beside them when they’re sad, even if it makes your lover mad? Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion or just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain? See, I wanna know what you think of your first name. And if you often lie awake at night and imagine your mother’s joy when she spoke it for the very first time. I want you tell me all the ways you’ve been unkind. Tell me all the ways you’ve been cruel. See, I wanna know more than what you do for a living. I wanna know how much of your life you spend just giving. And if you love yourself enough to also receive sometimes. I wanna know if you bleed sometimes through other people’s wounds.”

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Andrea Gibson On Friday nights, on the occasion where I feel like a homebody, which I would say may be 50 percent of the time, I spend my nights reading and listening to spoken word.  This piece stands out to me because of its content and the reality of how moving it is to truly know someone. Knowing every aspect of their being, and they know you are navigating through those spaces, and they knew what you appreciate about them.  This process has the ability to create such a solid ground for a relationship. At 22, I think I have a solid ground on which to build friendships, but I am still figuring out the whole intimate partnership relationship concept that is healthy and constructive for both parties. In over news, I saw a stunning rainbow today.

I couldn't capture the color with my camera, but each line of color was so clearly distinguished, and yet you could see where the other colors faded into one another.  Also, if you look closer, you can see that there was a second rainbow above the first.

And lil' ol' me after Kjell's soccer game.  Photo rights go to Siri.