these texts are an archive of my life in the San Francisco Bay Area from march 2007 - march 2015. it stands as a record of close to a decade of my life, charting the struggles i faced as an artist, daughter, and lover. messy and chaotic at times, eloquent and poetic at others, these texts are an index i am proud of. it was here in this electric box that i learned how to be honest about my experiences and the person i needed to become. it was here that i first learned the truism that words make the world and how to trust such a beautiful, rife, hard fact.

thank you for meeting me here in such tall grass.


my artist website is here.

Nov 17, 2009

long slow breath out...

my optimism is here. it's alive but it's quiet. curled up. small. a child hiding under the bed. confusion feels like hatred sometimes. hatred for the world. its rhythm. its mode. that chaos spinning spinning spinning and make no bones about it- there will be no answer when you ask why. hardness. and last night i crawled in to bed an hour late and laid awake a long long time. my heart, sick. so sick in my heart, so sad, i felt like i might puke right there. i laid on my stomach and shoved a pillow under it. pressed my intestines inward and shut them up. shut them down. went to sleep finally. and got up at 5:40 this morning. made coffee. remembered i have a dentist appointment this morning. no jog til evening. i look for comfort in the small corners. i am finding some. a little. a little.

4 comments:

sMacThoughts said...

I have a knot in my stommy reading this. I feel for you. So sorry you are going through this, and this feeling.

angela simione said...

thank you, sweet woman. i will be praying a lot and leaning on good things. she is smiling and she feels good. she has notoriously high spirits in general. :) it is a great strength in her.

Heather Jerdee said...

I'm listening to you .... while I read Angela, I have a load of chaotic confusion in my own life as well. Just thinking about you <3

angela simione said...

thank you, heather. (((hug)))