new zealand!

I'm leaving the continent, folks! We'll be gone for the month of march, so we know to the date when spring comes for us this year! Yeeeeaaaaahhhhhh.
If anyone has any must-see/ must-go-to information, just drop me a line, eh?
I've been updating pieces of the website and myspace, so snoop around and see if you can find the new stuff...it's hiding...

creeps in disguise

I used to think it was really only the mean people who suck, but now I can definitively say that I prefer the mean ones to the ones that pretend to be full of light and joy and truth and faith only because they believe if they keep telling people they are these things, then one day they will be. This is not so.
I can weed out the assholes pretty quickly these days, but every once in a while, one gets in under my radar and, due to a sneaky disguise or a well turned phrase, gets close enough to hurt me.
Those are the ones I can really do without entirely.
Then I have to dust off my asshole suit and tell them to stay away from me in no uncertain terms, which makes me feel like the person on the other side of my songs like unwelcome or ties that bind.
Perhaps the world needs a handbook on the different varieties of creeps and jerks and how to identify and deflect them with minimal harm to self.
I'd read it...

aria marie

I watched the miracle of birth today.
I like to think I participated in some way, but really it just happened and I was really just there.
Michelle and Jadon have a beautiful, healthy baby girl named Aria Marie Rempel and I am so proud of them both. I cannot think of two people who will make batter parents than these two wise, kind hearts.
I will teach her how to make spitball shooters and encourage her to get muddy.
Serious business, this kid thing.
I think I may start thinking about getting one myself.
Some day.
In a few years.
Or more.
Eventually.

yellowknife!

I am here with Michelle and Beth and Michelle's unborn baby belly and I am calm and I can breathe in a new way. It is quieting to be so close to the kind of raw nature that can kill you if you don't take it seriously.
At this time of year, it is like one long day that never really ends.
Puts a new spin on time.
Makes me wonder why we rush around so much down south.
I can't wait to come here with you, my love.
Your eyes will light up as a child's at the enormity of all of this.

april 17, 2007

is a day that will be celebrated as an anniversary henceforth.
Lonely anymore I am not.
Sad anymore I am not.
This for all of you too I hope.

banana sandwiches in no name baggies

the smell of bananas and poverty
follow me relentlessly.
I am wondering if
the others can tell
I'm from small town nowhere
and I still don't belong here.
once apon a memory
I used to think you'd think of me
when eventually we'd part.
our ways have ways of telling us
what our hearts might repress or deny.
or better yet, to the benefit of others
we succumb.

what was I thinking?

I was an ass last night. At least, I was in my head at the end of it all.
But it's ok, because I got a little lost in the moment and didn't realize I was being an ass and we're all allowed to lose our way once in a while.
If I was an ass to you, I am truly sorry.
If I wasn't, just disregard, eh?
Oh, by the way, Jane Hawley is a beautiful little firecracker and Chris Vail rocks my world.
Have a good one...I will.
jas