tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3596377069737631622024-02-08T05:56:42.470-08:00Heart Thoughts and Emotions of the MindAn attempt to discover what the heart is thinking and what the mind is feeling and understand both through the lenses of ordinary human eyes.Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-40172097054456545322015-02-06T11:59:00.000-08:002015-02-06T11:59:04.822-08:00Flash Fiction FridayThe air changed and moved in an unnatural way, but it no longer scared her. She was prepared for this. She had been waiting for this for her entire life, to see the world through her coven's eyes, to be a full fledged member. The air began to swirl faster and faster around her and she joined the chanting of her sisters around her "double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble". The chanting got the louder and louder and she became less and less aware of her body and more aware of the elements around her.<br />
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And finally, when she didn't think she would last or take it any longer, she saw it and she understood why they did it. Such power and knowledge was undeniable.<br />
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She had seen the future, and it was great and dreadful, just as she.<br />
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This week's post was inspired in part by the witches from Shakespear's Macbeth and by this week's prompt:<br />
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Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-31176269109730544922015-01-23T10:24:00.002-08:002015-01-23T10:24:32.297-08:00Flash Fiction FridayHere's this week's prompt:<br />
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And here's my response:<br />
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A man, covered in blood, just walked up to the gate. Different lies were forming in his head. <i>What should I tell her? What would she believe?</i> He knew he could have cleaned up first, and save needing to explain himself. <i>But I need her to know I did it for her. All of it for her. </i><br />
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She buzzed him through the gate, and was waiting for him in the open door as he made his way up the driveway. Her smile faltered as she took in his appearance.<br />
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"What happened to you? All you ok?"<br />
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He grinned. "More than ok."<br />
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Her heart dropped at his reaction. "What do you mean <i>ok?</i> How did you get covered in blood?"<br />
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"I took care of your little problem. Well I guess, our little problem now. You don't have to worry anymore." His eyes softened with affection, but were still gleeful with his happy news. However he could tell from her face that this wasn't going the direction he had hoped.<br />
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"Adam, <i>no" </i>she groaned. "Why would you do that? I have to turn you in." She moved inside the house, determined.<br />
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He sighed and quickly moved after her, locking the door behind him. He didn't want it to turn out this way. But hey, a little more blood wouldn't hurt.<br />
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I know, not the most clever. But hey, what can I say about waiting till the last moment while I'm in an airport wating to get back to New Zealand. Creativity and procrastination generally don't mesh.<br />
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Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-7978432518352527582015-01-16T13:00:00.000-08:002015-01-16T13:00:11.699-08:00Flash Fiction FridayThe prompt this week was a stanza from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "A Dream". Here's my response. It begins with the stanza from the poem.<br />
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<span style="background: white;">To him whose eyes are cast</span><br />
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She pushed her textbook away. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The past. The past? Can it be considered the past if it’s still sitting
right next to you?</i> A chill passed through her hand as her dead boyfriend’s
ghost reached for the textbook, brushing her hand. “What’s up? Is the reading
assignment not your cup of tea?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Um, no, it’s fine,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What’s
not my cup of tea is the fact my last reading assignment accidentally led to
the partial resurrection of my dead boyfriend.</i> She looked at him across the
table. His ghost had this dark shadow that was deepening behind his features.
He was becoming more and more restless in this limbo he found himself in. The
‘ray of the past’ that lifted her heart the first time his ghost found her was
all but gone. Her heart was broken when he died in that car accident a year
ago, but was this any better? Could it even be worse?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-6650083293399645182014-12-26T00:58:00.001-08:002014-12-26T00:58:25.530-08:00Flash Fiction FridayHey there! I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas. I actually have a somewhat season-related flash fiction response this time to this prompt:<br />
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She never spoke, never made a sound, but the look in her
eyes told me what was about to happen. She was going to bring up politics at
the dinner table. Conversation had lulled and we had already avoided that
general topic three times over between Uncle Larry’s racist joke and Grandpa’s
nickname for the new brother-in-law. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You could intervene</i>,
my little shoulder angel seemed to whisper, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">she
hasn’t been home in a while and doesn’t know what she’s getting herself into.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Naw! </i>My little
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<br />Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-64749250401522005202014-12-18T20:41:00.000-08:002014-12-18T20:41:11.083-08:00Flash Fiction Friday 2
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And here's my 100 word response:</div>
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It was an impulse buy and my heart was thumping vigorously
for the recklessness of my actions. I was desperate to hide it. Once home, I
headed straight for the basement, hiding my folly in a loose wall panel. I
turned to find my secret deed scrutinized by my black cat Pluto. His sagacious one-eyed
gaze bored into me. But surely my cat would never reveal me? I ran upstairs to
greet the sounds of my beloved returned home, only to be stopped cold by the
screeching meow of Pluto, leading only to exactly where I hid it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I drew heavily on Edgar Allan Poe's short story <a href="http://poestories.com/read/blackcat">The Black Cat</a> which I highly recommend reading.</div>
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Sorry this isn't more festive for the holiday season. Hopefully you'll be able to find some Christmas cheer in the other Flash Fiction posts found here:</div>
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Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-85000486173266688602014-12-12T01:49:00.000-08:002014-12-12T01:49:10.353-08:00Flash Fiction FridaySo... I know it has been over a year since my last post....BUT I recently joined a group of lovely and talented writers that should get me posting at least once a week (yaay!). It's called Flash Fiction Friday. What happens is each week we get a new prompt and every Friday we each post our 100 word response to that prompt. And don't worry, you won't have to get bored with only my ideas each week because I will link all the other responses with my posts so you can see what everyone came up with.<br />
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Here is this week's prompt:<br />
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that shone with anything but humanity. Voices carried to the top branches, the
creature tensed with excitement. It seemed the jogger it had been stalking must
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The other responses for this week can be found at these AWESOME blogs:</div>
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<a href="http://quinlynsblog.blogspot.com/">quinlynsblog.blogspot.com</a></div>
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<a href="http://ladyvioletsblog.blogspot.com/">ladyvioletsblog.blogspot.com</a></div>
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<a href="http://romneyrants.blogspot.com/">romneyrants.blogspot.com</a></div>
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Thanks for reading! You can find more out about the ancient legend of the Wendigo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo">here.</a></div>
Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-67602942605097386512013-11-04T01:28:00.000-08:002013-11-04T01:28:09.029-08:00Silly Little Thought on Romantic ComediesTonight I was listening to music,doing my best pretending to be productive, and a song from one of my favorite chick flicks from my teenage/hopeless romantic phase (which I'm not completely sure I ever got over) came on. I was suddenly flooded not only with nostalgia for all those girls nights with popcorn and chocolate, but with emotions of love, excitement, longing, and completion. I was feeling everything that song sang about and that movie brought to the screen. Only, it was better than anything that song or movie could convey...because it was real. I am in love. I feel complete and happy, and love someone with an intensity that cannot be contained in any movie or song, no matter how great. It hit me that my reality is better than any fantasy I drooled over as a teenage girl waiting for my prince charming to come. He's better than any prince charming and my life is better than a fairytale. I am in love and it is real and I no longer have to daydream about what all the love songs are talking about....because I'm living it.Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-42302213619149983102013-09-11T19:16:00.002-07:002013-09-11T19:16:49.151-07:00The Empty Night Sky of 9/11I was nine years old. And my memories are scattered and imprecise. But I will try to gather them and convey the way that day changed my heart and my mind. I remember my raspberry tea getting cold because I was too busy trying to make sense of all the yelling and smoke on the TV as my mother made phone call after phone call, randomly holding me when she would pause and stare at the TV herself. I remember not understanding why everyone was driving with their headlights on as we drove an hour to my Uncle's for a birthday party, hearing only 4th of July songs on the radio. I don't remember singing happy birthday to my cousin or what we got him for his 5th birthday. But I do remember sitting in the stairwell, eavesdropping on the adults whispering, realizing they were trying to understand what was happening as much as I was. I remember getting home that night and my dad sitting my sister and me on our swing outside, pointing to the night sky and saying "tonight will be the only night you will ever look at the stars and not see a single airplane". And even though I always hated there were always airplanes competing with shooting stars when I was trying to make a wish, the thought of no airplanes make me sad as my tired little mind tried to go to sleep that night.<br />
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I still carry that image of the empty night sky in my mind and it my heart. It reminds me of that 9 year old girl having to grow up a little bit faster than I would have liked, but learning lessons that defined how I still see the world. I learned that scary things can happen and people are capable of doing terrible and awful things that you are rarely prepared for. But I also learned how many good people are out there. And not just the good people you read about in the news that you hope to meet someday, but your neighbors and friends who stand next to you and and gladly hold you up when life just gets too hard. I learned more about the strength and the goodness of the American people from 9/11 than I did about evil that can exist in the world. And I remember that night sky to remind myself of that strength and unity. And every time I see a blinking airplane making its way across the beautiful night sky, I take a moment and say a little prayer of gratitude for my blessings and ask to try to see a little bit more of the good in the world, because that is where the strength of any people truly lies.<br />
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So even if you currently aren't getting along with all of your neighbors because you can't agree on Obama, the debt problem, or the Syrian conflict, next time you see an airplane, be grateful for your safety, happiness, and all of the goodness around you. And I promise you, if you can't see it....you just aren't looking in the right places.<br />
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God bless America.Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-2328493386580091912013-08-20T14:02:00.000-07:002013-08-20T14:02:44.586-07:00My Home and My suitcaseI'm visiting home right now. But I'm home only in the sense that "home" is place where I grew up or where my parents are. However, having moved around for the last three years and having grown to love and feel at home in places even after only a few days, I've decided there must be an explanation for this phenomenon: I have started carrying home in my suitcase. Somewhere among the underwear, the toiletries, and too many pairs of shoes, I packed the feeling of my own bed, my mother's warmth, my father's humor, and the tendency to be just a little more accepting and comfortable within the four walls of my own home where I'm not distracted <i>trying</i> to fit in or feel at home. This explains why I love Istanbul as much as Laie and how I slept just as soundly in Jerusalem as I do Oracle. And you know, I'm going to tell that to the next airline person that weighs my bag. "Of course it's over 50 pounds! Have you ever tried to take home with you from Hawaii to Arizona to Utah to Israel and back again? Of course it's heavy!" I just hope I remember to restock on some things while I actually am "home home". I can't forget mom band-aids that make any ow-ie better whether it's a scraped knee or wounded pride, or my dad's advice that always takes up a lot of room but tends to hold to answers to all of my problems, or the faith and strength found in the creaky floor boards of our trailer that are a testament of the life and love constantly happening in our home. And even though sometimes I'm not sure if I can fit it all in, I'm learning that packing "home" will always be worth the extra weight. Because then, even when I'm far away, home will never be farther than a zip and open away.<br />
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Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-36209821450063059882013-01-20T02:33:00.000-08:002013-01-20T04:05:59.659-08:00Feminine ClichesYou and I are both cliches<br />
You with your girlish wit and obsession with everything masculine<br />
And me<br />
With my wounded feminist heart<br />
distrusting every man no matter his professed honor and respect of the feminine<br />
I can't help but get mad at you<br />
and you can't help but feel sorry for me<br />
You think I'm deprived<br />
And I know your depraved<br />
I just hope you finally learn your lesson<br />
when your heart has been shattered<br />
and your "girlish wit" taken advantage of<br />
But really I don't<br />
That would be too tragic and unfair<br />
I just want you to stop talking<br />
and spreading your false reality to all too eager ears<br />
And interrupting this class I liked until you walked in<br />
At least you're better than the men in here<br />
hanging on your every wordBrianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-91638915174781218442013-01-20T02:26:00.000-08:002013-01-20T02:26:36.920-08:00I'm Caught Between Two WorldsI'm caught between two worlds where I don't know if I'm supposed to scribble in my journal or type furiously away at my blog when I can't sleep at night. I'm caught between two worlds where my parents would disapprove of the life I'm living, but I have never been happier or more sure of my choices. I'm caught between two worlds where the people who taught me how to be compassionate no longer understand my thoughts and desires to lessen the struggles of others because they don't follow the orthodox pattern. I am caught between two worlds where I catch myself hating what my body looks like but loving to no longer obsess over what I eat and how many sit ups I do. I'm caught between two worlds where I love a man and I trust him with all that I am yet I still worry I want to marry him more than he wants to marry me. I'm caught between two worlds where I feel my "wrong" actions and thoughts and desires are an extension and improvement of my old self yet everyone says they're just young and silly and I'm sure to change once I decide to grow up and get married and finally have a child and responsibilities to tailor myself to. And I will change. I hope to. That's why I don't understand why it's bad that I'm changing now. Aren't we supposed to grow and evolve and be different rather than a copy of expectations? I guess this feeling "caught" is really just me growing up. That these feelings will just disappear the moment I turn 25 and all my neurons are in place (like my mother says) and I'll see everyone else had it right all along. Or, maybe, I'll realize that everyone has this moment where they realize their life will not be like any before it and all this dissonance and "caughtness" will disappear. Or maybe it's just late and I can't sleep. Either way, I'm caught between two worlds. And I still feel guilty for not writing this in pen in my journal. Maybe I'm just experiencing writer's guilt for cheating on my journals with my blog. That's it. I should go scribble something in my poetry journal and maybe I'll realize my world has been around me this whole time and everyone still loves me even though I've changed. Everything feels better when it's written on paper, don't you think?Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-55380161046202889522012-12-10T01:13:00.003-08:002012-12-10T01:13:39.581-08:00A poem by Keed Kersey: They Ask Me if I Still Love You<br />
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They ask me if I still love you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I blush, grin and say;<o:p></o:p></div>
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of course.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Why?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Because your eyes are of the most utter ocean blue,<o:p></o:p></div>
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but other days they're the currents of the stormy grey sea.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I see a current of salty water, deep, once blue, but now a
faded grey.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I see a bundle of darkened grey clouds in the distance, <o:p></o:p></div>
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and the thunder rumbles from your irises,<o:p></o:p></div>
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and I hear it pound in the back of my mind.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I wonder if you knew.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I see a spark of lightening flash, only once in a while,<o:p></o:p></div>
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while you look at her.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My throat corrodes with bile.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She says she sees green demons lurking in the depth of my
own ocean currents,<o:p></o:p></div>
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and I shrug. <o:p></o:p></div>
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What am I supposed to say?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know you think about her.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Night and day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The hardest part, <o:p></o:p></div>
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is a generic, old saying.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you love them, <o:p></o:p></div>
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you let them go.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If they love you enough to stay, <o:p></o:p></div>
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or to come back, <o:p></o:p></div>
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you never let go.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But you haven't come back.<o:p></o:p></div>
Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-55547779568982916052012-08-16T01:15:00.001-07:002012-08-16T01:15:29.226-07:00The Nicest Place on the Internet. If you want to be happy and smile and feel better....click on the link below:<br />
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What I love about this, is that everyone looks beautiful.<br />
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Moral of the story: giving love enhances your beauty.<br />
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Have you given someone a hug today?Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-38541783117649506552012-08-13T21:08:00.003-07:002013-01-20T04:11:01.522-08:00What to do with old letters?Lately I have realized that I have a lot of letters from ex-boyfriends that I don't know what to do with. Granted, not all of the memories associated with them are bad....but they (the letters) don't make me particularly happy so....is it alright to just throw them away? I think I found a poem that helps me answer this question......<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I swallowed them whole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">at night I wake to entertain the ghosts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">lounging in my bedroom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">with impromptu recitations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">of your letters, of your thoughts,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">too far and stirs the den.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-58124142004028910272012-07-03T16:44:00.000-07:002012-07-03T16:44:12.400-07:00An Original Poem<i>Rag Doll</i> by Brianne Ramsay<br />
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I want you to know:<br />
You don't matter.<br />
I just loved you.<br />
But like a little girl<br />
Loves her rag doll<br />
Foolishly dragging it<br />
Everywhere<br />
Thinking it loves her back<br />
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You comforted me<br />
Played your role in my life.<br />
But only when I held you there<br />
Like my rag doll<br />
Squeezing too tight<br />
Never wanting to grow up<br />
Or let go.<br />
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You became a crutch<br />
Dragging along<br />
Becoming worn.<br />
Holes from misplaced love<br />
And dependency.<br />
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I've out grown you.<br />
Put you away in a box.<br />
That doesn't mean<br />
I didn't love you.<br />
You were my world,<br />
My everything.<br />
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But that love<br />
Was the love of a little girl.<br />
Innocent and naive<br />
Nothing special or real.<br />
Just enough for a useless rag doll.<br />
To outgrow<br />
And forget.Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-90346581254898146972012-06-27T03:42:00.000-07:002012-06-27T03:42:55.548-07:00SoundtrackI live in the upper corner of a very crowded college dorm and I am privy to the many sounds associated with ...people, just people in general. From garbage trucks to weekwackers to giggling friends to longing lovers' long goodbyes to young lovers' foolish fights. Sometimes the noise can be unbearable and annoying, but luckily not a whole lot of things can ever bug me enough to reach the point of unhappiness. My favorite noise I hear every night is probably one thought of as annoying to most residents. The Polynesian who lives two doors down from me starts playing music from her laptop when she gets home from work around eleven pm and it goes straight on until the morning. They're all American songs, but I think I like them so much because it's the kind of music I remember listening to on my mother's and father's radio. Nothing modern or loud or abrasive and attention grabbing which most contemporary music aspires to be. It's just a simple songs that are becoming her soundtrack for her college life yet gently lull me into state of security and sleep as if the soundtrack of my childhood is a lullaby I had forgotten I needed. So I guess this whole post is meant to acknowledge I don't mind the music. In fact, I welcome it. It makes me think about people, about my life, about their lives. It's nice. A good way to fall asleep. It'll be a good soundtrack to remember.Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-76594032406383553652012-06-24T03:23:00.002-07:002012-06-24T03:23:52.963-07:00She is a Book by Craig Froman<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 14pt;">another intimate piece of her…</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 18pt;">A</span></b><span style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 14pt;">nd I read with such abandon</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 14pt;">across her pages</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 14pt;">my fingers trailing</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 18pt;">I</span></b><span style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 14pt;">n her sighs</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 14pt;">she speaks of</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 14pt;">stories and sonnets</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 14pt;">history and fantasy</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 18pt;">I</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 14pt;">hear her voice</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 14pt;">in the pages</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 14pt;">wanting to know her</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 14pt;">every line</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 14pt;">every word</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Harrington; font-size: 14pt;">share my book with her</span></span></div>
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<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-28881923245284702932012-06-23T23:45:00.002-07:002012-06-23T23:45:39.509-07:00The Avoidance of ThinkingWhy do I think it's important to write? Why do I think it matters at all to post on this blog that has gone untouched for almost a year? Because I'm tired of not thinking. And when you write, you're forced to think. It's unavoidable. It's necessary for progress. It's how we come to understand ourselves. Yet we avoid it by filling our time with menial tasks and time wasters always excusing us from having to pen a single word or own up to a single thought. I have found myself retreating into the labyrinth of television and useless books, always saying "I'll get to it later, when I'm not so tired or busy or lazy". It's sickening to think of all the time I've wasted staring mindlessly at a screen giving no validity or time to the thoughts I think or the feelings I feel. I'm running away from reality and the difficulty of dealing with it. Loss, loneliness, love and longing are all easier to deal with when you don't have to think about them. When you just come home on auto pilot and end your night plugged into the world, never taking a moment for a solitary thought or even a smidgen of introspection, life just gets simpler...and less meaningful. Well I'm done. I'm tired of falsity and shallow, solitary nights. I say that now, but I'll probably end tonight just like the night before. On my computer or my phone surprised when the sun comes up and I didn't do anything I promised myself I would. But I can try. This blog post (going into cyberspace unacknowledged) is a good start at least....Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-10078407914343665772011-11-24T20:50:00.001-08:002011-11-24T21:11:12.459-08:00GratitudeSometimes I just have to shake my head at myself when I realize how hard I make life on myself. It's so silly that it takes a label on one day of the year like "Thanksgiving" to get me to realize how incredibly blessed I am. How much of a happier person would I be and how much of a happier outlook on life would I have if instead of starting everyday with "what do I <i>have</i> to do" I got out of bed and asked myself "what do I <i>get</i> to do today"? What I realized today, as I was missing loved ones far away and growing closer to the ones I have here and eating delicious food and taking my turn listing all of the things I'm thankful for, is that life is more than our endless "to do" lists. My life is more than the tests I have to take and the papers I have to write and hoops I have to jump through to "get somewhere" in life. I already am somewhere in life. I'm happy and healthy with goals and dreams and the ability to laugh and cry and wonder at the little mystery and miracle that my life is. I feel as though if people didn't wait until Thanksgiving to appreciate their lives then we would have a lot more happy people in the world rather than haggard, busy and depressed people. So take this Thanksgiving Day and make it a habit in your life. All of those bright and wonderful things in your life are more than capable of out shining the darkness as long as you know they are there. So to be trite, carry an attitude of gratitude within your heart, it will amaze how light and happy it feels.Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-49979944747550889842011-11-08T01:07:00.000-08:002011-11-08T01:07:32.346-08:00PurposesSometimes I feel as though I'm surrounded by thousands of people unaware of the bigger and beautiful thing around them going on called life. People are so consumed with their meaningless conversations and agendas that they let the chatter and noise fill up their souls and they become separated from what the purpose of their existence is. It's not about what your friends are doing this weekend, or the next test you have in class, or that date you so desperately want on Friday. Our purpose is to move with the rhythm of our every day tasks without forgetting our own beat, and the beauty of noticing another's unique beat. It's taking a moment to notice the peace and quiet that is present in the world, but we're just too busy listening to our i-pods or playing our games to notice it. We say we're busy but we always find time to do such purposeless things. I miss the days that when a song came on or someone picked up a guitar we stopped and listened to the transcending power of communication music possesses rather than using it as an excuse to talk louder and longer about the pointless details of our busy lives that we purposely make busy to feel complete. We don't have to be busy and consumed with tasks and to-do lists to find our purpose. We simply need quiet and peace and a mind to contemplate ourselves and our potential and than, our purpose just lines up in our hearts and minds, right alongside our inner peace. Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-40743478654723638082011-09-14T22:08:00.000-07:002011-09-14T22:08:27.787-07:00Underlying Emotions and AdulthoodAs teenagers in Junior High and High School we live in a world where the vulnerable emotions of others must be assumed and where nothing is a "given". We all play the guessing game of "who likes who" and tip toe around each other's emotions because there is no way to tell where other's feelings lie. We function like this because we are not yet "adult" enough to present and calmly discuss our emotions no matter how vulnerable those emotions may make us. When we reach adulthood it is assumed that everyone's emotions are taken care of because we are mature enough to take care of them ourselves; leaving no excuse for drama or conflict because you are expected to "speak up" if you had a problem in the first place. So based on this adult-like assumption we must go through our adulthood thinking that no one has any emotion except for the ones they convey through their adult words because that is the adult thing to do. But I feel, in my life and the people in my life, that being "adult" has become an excuse to leave things unspoken and let the more "adult-like" people be vulnerable and grown up and just leave our emotions where they are; on our heart and on our mind where no one else is privy to them because adults shouldn't have to deal with such juvenile things. But for me, I'd rather have the people in my life come clean about their emotions and not judge me for assuming their emotions existed because it was true. Emotions exist at all points in our lives, adult or not. We must learn to acknowledge those emotions and realize people are going to assume and omit and lie and be hurt, even if we're not teenagers. It's called being human. We feel. So go tell someone how you feel.Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-70447277139998805772011-08-27T01:20:00.000-07:002011-08-27T01:20:54.361-07:00If You Forget Me by Pablo NerudaI chanced upon this poem tonight. I love the feeling while you are reading a piece of poetry and each word strums across your heart strings, bringing you into better harmony with yourself, making you grateful those words were written and expressing what you didn't know you were feeling. That's what I felt when I read this poem. Thank you Pablo Neruda, for writing poetry, and bringing people to acknowledge what is in their heart.<br />
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border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">at the crystal moon, at the red branch</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">of the slow autumn at my window,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">if I touch</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">near the fire</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">the impalpable ash</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">or the wrinkled body of the log,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">everything carries me to you,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">as if everything that exists,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">aromas, light, metals,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">were little boats</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">that sail</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">toward those isles of yours that wait for me.</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;"><br />
</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">Well, now,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">if little by little you stop loving me</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">I shall stop loving you little by little.</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;"><br />
</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">If suddenly</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">you forget me</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">do not look for me,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">for I shall already have forgotten you.</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;"><br />
</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">If you think it long and mad,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">the wind of banners</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">that passes through my life,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">and you decide</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">to leave me at the shore</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">of the heart where I have roots,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">remember</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">that on that day,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">at that hour,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">I shall lift my arms</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">and my roots will set off</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">to seek another land.</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;"><br />
</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">But</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">if each day,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">each hour,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">you feel that you are destined for me</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">with implacable sweetness,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">if each day a flower</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">climbs up to your lips to seek me,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">ah my love, ah my own,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">in me all that fire is repeated,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">my love feeds on your love, beloved,</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">and as long as you live it will be in your arms</span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 34px;">without leaving mine </span></span></h3><h3 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</h3>Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-68313301559907308392011-08-16T23:52:00.000-07:002011-08-16T23:52:59.582-07:00Words<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #97b4ba; color: #233136; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">“Words, so innocent and powerless…when standing in a dictionary, how potent for good or evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”<br />
<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nathaniel Hawthorne </strong>(1804-1864) American Novelist</span><br />
Words hold incredible sway over the human soul and heart. Some say actions speak louder than words, but there are words that make the heart soar, or break it into a million unidentifiable pieces. They can help us convey the ideas and thoughts of our minds, or lead us to experience great humiliation from misuse. A few precious and simple words whispered at the right moment can be the foundation of some our most deep and defining relationships, while they can also push away and trap those who use to mean so much to us. The absence of words can also have an incredible impact. When you just know the world will be ok once again if you simply hear those few words, but if they are omitted or simply forgotten, you become filled with a disappointment that reaches your core and you begin to lose hope of ever hearing those words again. Sometimes it doesn't even matter what the words say, as long as they exist. You can spend weeks fretting and being anxious, but the moment you hold a piece of paper with his words scribbled all over it, your heart suddenly feels ok again. It's kind of silly when you think about it. They're just words. So much of our happiness shouldn't be contingent on whether they are present or absent. But realizing this, I hope I can say the words that need to be heard, and keep back the ones that should remain unspoken, and thank those precious few in my life that know the power of words and how to speak to my heart to keep it pumping and loving and producing angsty but meaningful (to me) blog posts.Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-38900413388969918132011-07-23T00:44:00.000-07:002011-07-23T00:44:10.658-07:00What if...What if I don't make it? What if I sound stupid? What if he's lying? What if he marries me? What if I can't pay for school? What if she doesn't like me? What if what if what if? That phrase gets me all the time. It feeds my fears and insecurities and my tendency to be slightly irrational. It makes me falsely hopeful and unnecessarily heartbroken. It ruins my present because I am too worried about making sure I'm spending time worrying about the future. I make sure I hash out all the "what ifs" before I even let myself become comfortable in any situation. That phrase seems to control my life and cloud my judgement when it comes to using my agency. I need to stop. So I decided to take the advice of an old friend of mine, Albus Dumbledore. He said "It does not due to dwell on dreams and forget to live". It's not that I'm going to stop planning for my future, but I'm also going to remember to live my life as it is happening. Life is right now. Stop missing out. What if I miss out on life? Go live, and you'll have nothing to fret about.Brianne Ramsay Doschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11640401673374217720noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359637706973763162.post-80105584378133159412011-07-09T13:52:00.000-07:002011-07-09T13:52:32.615-07:00Having A Coke With You by Frank O'haraI read this poem years ago as a freshman in high school, but it has recently come into my life again and I find myself enjoying it with a new passion that I never posessed before. Maybe it's because I have a year under my belt as an English major and therefore a greater understanding of what good poetry is. Or maybe before I was too young and inexperienced to understand the love O'hara so aptly describes with nickle words and concise similes. Or what the true explanation of why I appreciate this poem now more than I did before, is because now I understand and know all of the allusions and references within the poem and it's meaning is clear and more beautiful than I ever fathomed. Therefore, in order to share my passion and the understanding of this poem, I am going to post the poem and then pictures of the places and information on the people he uses to establish the meaning of the poem. I hope someday you experience the feeling of reading a poem so perfectly in tune with your life that it is as if your own soul penned the words on the page in front of you.<br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">it is hard to believe when I'm with you that there can be anything as still</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">in the warm New York 4 o'clock light we are drifting back and forth</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">except possibly for the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Polish Rider</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">occasionally and anyway it's in the Frick</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">which thank heavens you haven't gone to yet so we can go together the first time</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of Futurism</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">just as at home I never think of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Nude Descending a Staircase</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">or</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">at a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michelangelo that used to wow me</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">and what good does all the research of the Impressionists do them</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;">or for that matter Marino Marini when he didn't pick the rider as carefully</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Leonardo and </span></span></i></b><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Michelangelo:</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"> <b><i>Referring to the art work of the two famous artists Leonardo DaVinci and Michelangelo </i></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni.</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"><b><i>Impressionists: </i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes; open compostion; emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time); common, ordinary subject matter; the inclusion of movement</span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> as a crucial element of human perception and experience; and unusual visual angles.</span></i></b></span><br />
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