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The New York City skyline from across the water; sunsets at sea; the shadows of clouds shifting over treetops; my sisters wishing on a shooting star; the sunrise over the desert from a hot air balloon; the warmth and light of a campfire as the voices rise into the sky with the embers. And I have tallied up these beautiful things and kept tabs on them, memories like index cards in my mind, labeled, categorized, logical, the way I like my things to be: *landscape, cityscape, skyline, harmony, melody, warmth, friendship* and then somewhere in the back of the drawer is a folder, a category that is not a category and it is spilling into the other categories and it is disorder and the absence of order, the incapacity to categorize beautiful things overflowing, not logically and then, there's you
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May 26, 2013
May 26, 2013 at 4:44 PM UTC
I have seen
The New York City skyline from across the water; sunsets at sea; the shadows of clouds shifting over treetops; my sisters wishing on a shooting star; the sunrise over the desert from a hot air balloon; the warmth and light of a campfire as the voices rise into the sky with the embers. And I have tallied up these beautiful things and kept tabs on them, memories like index cards in my mind, labeled, categorized, logical, the way I like my things to be: *landscape, cityscape, skyline, harmony, melody, warmth, friendship* and then somewhere in the back of the drawer is a folder, a category that is not a category and it is spilling into the other categories and it is disorder and the absence of order, the incapacity to categorize beautiful things overflowing, not logically and then, there's you
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May 26, 2013
May 26, 2013 at 4:44 PM UTC
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