michelle.k.: Let's fall in love, he said & she said OK & he blinked. I didn't think it'd be that easy, he said & she patted his hand. Love is not the hard part, she said. The hard part is trying not to freak out about what you've just done.
michelle.k.: feeding time
michelle.k.: forgotten dream
michelle.k.: If I was a spider princess, she said, I would spin webs the color of sky & catch drops of sunlight to give to children who watch too much TV & then everyone would remember to come outside to play. If I was a spider princess, she said, things would be diff
michelle.k.: Go into the light little hippo
michelle.k.: I just want to be loved, she said & I said That's easy. She stood there for a moment & then she sat down right next to me. Well, she said, there are a few other things on my list, too.
michelle.k.: You have to not care either way about it, she told me, & when you wake up in the middle of the night with anxiety attacks, it's best to lie & say it's because you thought you heard something downstairs
michelle.k.: outtake
michelle.k.: silence
michelle.k.: View LARGE seriously.
michelle.k.: things have been going so well that (s)he's taking an anxiety break to keep centered
michelle.k.: Summer is not over..
michelle.k.: preparing for a battle mainly because they know they probably shouldn't have done it in the first place
michelle.k.: I'd like to leave you with something valuable, she said. You probably already have, I said, but we take most of our lives to remember that, even in the best of times
michelle.k.: convinced she can do everything she's ever dreamed of with just a little more space
michelle.k.: Breakfast
michelle.k.: It's lucky I only have one of these, (s)he said. I can see where you'd never think about anything else.
michelle.k.: this could be reaching or it could be drowning, depending on whether you've got a tendency to worry
michelle.k.: in training
michelle.k.: I'm a good jumper, she said, but I'm not so good at landing. Maybe you should stay closer to the ground then, I said & she shook her head & said the ground was the whole problem in the first place.
michelle.k.: off on another adventure of a lifetime & hoping she won't forget halfway through this time
michelle.k.: bathroom cliche
michelle.k.: like a cloud but not
michelle.k.: To be fair