"Always Be My Baby" - Mariah Carey Here I go again with my brilliant idea thinking that cleaning would be a way of cleansing away the past. After two loads of laundry, a ton of paperwork, and a blast from my college days, the last half of a decade came spilling out all over my carpet floor and I just couldn't stop it. I sat there in a circle of tears trying to turn the damn shredder on to get rid of it all; to say goodbye dammit, but low and behold it's still busted. I was hoping that it'd miraculously work again if I gave it a rest, but it just spat at me with no such luck as if to say, "Clean up your own mess." So I had no choice, but to sort through it all. All the knick-knacks, photos, dedications, trinkets, old concert tickets, movie tickets, sigh...old everything. I flipped through my planners of 2006, '07, '08, and '09 with little reminders, post-its and special dates of what the year held for me and mine. Come to think of it, I didn...
A song pops up in my head in bed, carrying with it a memory that may not always be described in words. So the music in it of itself allows me to tell my stories. This is my writer's pen. This is my '3' and my 'M'. This is my passion in life; my blog; my light and though it may occasionally lose its shine, it will never completely leave me in the dark.