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  • 16th
  • February
  • 2010
Things that occasionally make a person disappear:1.Let’s say a woman comes home after a weekend away to discover an unfamiliar pastel-colored toothbrush sitting expectantly by the sink. No questions are necessary. The woman does not unpack. This is not personal enough, is it? Not quite enough of the truth, but enough of it to not be a lie.2. Let’s say there is the uncomfortable realization that your lungs have grown larger than any of your other organs and are now selfishly taking up far too much space in your chest. Breathing is now the only thing your body wants to do.3. You say you want nothing on your birthday but that is false. You want what everyone else wants. You go out to dinner and it’s nice enough, but then you’re sitting on a couch next to the person you love and they’re someplace else again and they won’t even touch you, as if they’ve forgotten how, and it’s not that you wanted it all wrapped up in pretty ribbons, but because it seemed like today was the sort of day to feel something important from somebody else.

Things that occasionally make a person disappear:

1.
Let’s say a woman comes home after a weekend away to discover an unfamiliar pastel-colored toothbrush sitting expectantly by the sink. No questions are necessary. The woman does not unpack.

This is not personal enough, is it? Not quite enough of the truth, but enough of it to not be a lie.

2.
Let’s say there is the uncomfortable realization that your lungs have grown larger than any of your other organs and are now selfishly taking up far too much space in your chest. Breathing is now the only thing your body wants to do.

3.
You say you want nothing on your birthday but that is false. You want what everyone else wants. You go out to dinner and it’s nice enough, but then you’re sitting on a couch next to the person you love and they’re someplace else again and they won’t even touch you, as if they’ve forgotten how, and it’s not that you wanted it all wrapped up in pretty ribbons, but because it seemed like today was the sort of day to feel something important from somebody else.

  • 27th
  • January
  • 2010
How am I supposed to keep up?We are never in the same placeat the same time.

How am I supposed to keep up?
We are never in the same place
at the same time.

  • 21st
  • January
  • 2010

help support Doctors Without Borders

Hey everyone. I know we’ve been making a whole lot of announcements recently but this one is actually a big deal.

From now on 20% of EVERY purchase made from http://justoneplace.etsy.com will be donated to Doctors without Borders. This, of course, is inspired by the recent tragedies in Haiti but will continue even after that is no longer “recent news.”

As a reminder: you are not limited to pictures limited on the etsy shop; you may request any picture from http://appleshavewings.com

We hope that you are doing what you can to help the people in need, whether it be donating money or time or even just praying if that is something you do.

Thank you for your readership and support of Just One Place.

  • 20th
  • January
  • 2010

Happy Happy!

There will be no JOP post today (as you may have noticed) as it is a special day for C. and she deserves the day off.

We’ll update again soon. Until then, Happy Happy!

  • 13th
  • January
  • 2010
I don’t believe in writers, or love, but perhaps this comes with age. Everyone I know is having a hard time lately. How wide the space seems when there’s no one to help occupy it. Tell me again, about the green of the mountains and how eventually things work out in exactly the way they’re supposed to.

I don’t believe in writers,
or love, but perhaps this comes
with age. Everyone I know

is having a hard time lately.

How wide the space seems
when there’s no one to help occupy it.
Tell me again,
about the green of the mountains
and how eventually
things work out
in exactly the way
they’re supposed to.