Braids

May 18th, 2006

If I can stop one heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
— Emily Dickinson, “If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking”

palimpsest \PAL-imp-sest\, noun:
1. A manuscript, usually of papyrus or parchment, on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible.
2. An object or place whose older layers or aspects are apparent beneath its surface.

Dreams: Snow and winter scene. Possible romance. Emma Thompson was there.

–03/06/06: At this I talk about my braided hair and volunteering, but MT refuses to work so I had to take this entry out. I have no idea why.–

It was good to be home for most of the day. I finished End of Poverty and it made me just a bit more optimistic. I hope I can be apart of that movement one day. Certain economists are just too awesome for words while most that I’ve met just are not at all. Birthday party tomorrow I think.

Still social.