jolie laide

jolie laide

I started this when I lived in Brooklyn and struggled for grace in a city that grants moments of beauty and ugliness breathtakingly close to one another. Now I live in a place where things are a different kind of ugly and the beauty is pedestrian. I struggle with that.

5.29.2007

This is what the wall told me when I got up close enough to hear. It made me smile.

4 Comments:

Blogger slickaphonic said...

it's cuz you are.

that's the smartest wall i ever saw.

11:34 PM  
Blogger ttractor said...

you are making me blush, so full of puppies and sunshine you are these days.

what I like to think is this: anyone who would pay careful attention to this wall, anyone who would give it such regard, it tells this tiny secret to. And I think that's wonderful.

1:05 PM  
Blogger monk said...

and because of that last element you describe -- leaving the rest alone for now -- the wall is right.

and i think you're even more beautiful for being able to relate that.

8:36 PM  
Blogger ttractor said...

aw shucks, you all are making me toe the dirt and get all goosey. thank you.

3:15 PM  

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