my current jams

"Drop It Low" Ester Dean ft. Chris Brown
"This Body" Janet Jackson
"Break Up" Mario
"Imma Star" Jeremih

Batman

Octavio was Batman today. He wore a mask and a cape complete with a Batman t-shirt. He was in costume for the majority of the afternoon walking around the pavilion and basketball courts, visiting me at the sign-in table, lurking behind the pillars, stopping all adolescent crime. When I asked him who he was he responded "Bruce" in that deep scratchy baritone voice used in the most recent Batman movies. He was fully in character underneath that mask and black and yellow Batman seal. For those few hours he wasn't the kid that gets picked on because he doesn't speak English very well, or wears his khaki pants a little high on the hips, or doesn't have the dentist approved perfect smile. He was Bruce, the crime-fighting superhero whose strength and power is rarely challenged by others. I sat there watching him run about the courts with his cape in the wind wishing I could borrow his mask and fall into all my whims safely hidden behind a more powerful respected face.

hmms

Pumpkin patches are terribly judgmental. All one does is criticize the outer appearance, shape, color, size of a pumpkin to meet whatever standard of pumpkin excellence one's imagined. If I were a pumpkin, would you choose me out of all the others or would you pass me over for the better pumpkin to my right?

The holiday season and fall/winter weather makes for the best time to fall in love. There is something in the air that hangs on the cool breeze and fall leaves that enables one to feel butterflies in her stomach. Dream of that frigid cold night where the only thing to do is spoon under a blanket with your loved one staring into a dim-lit fire watching the embers float about like snow. The sharp pink tint on your cheeks as you pull his scarf close to your face in order to kiss his frosted nose.The hustle and bustle of holding hands through crowded streets of shoppers. The sharing of gifts and thanskgiving in celebration of his presence in your life and heart.

"I can be alone, yeah. I can watch a sunset on my own. I can be alone, yeah."
- Kate Nash "Merry Happy"