asphalt

i don't believe we live in a black+white world. it makes me sad when people paint it that way. there are no easy answers, if there were we'd be living in those easy solutions. but the earth is a mixed up and complicated place, full of many shades of gray and grace. how can you see it so bleakly? how can you look at one situation or another and believe it to be completely 1-dimensional? i don't know what to say, because i'm not going to argue. there's no way of making other people see what they can't.

the sun set while i was in the grocery store tonight. it feels weird. it's like i don't even remember the darkness from previous years. it makes early evening feel like bedtime. oh well, it will start to get lighter again in a little over a month.

i really do like variety. even if my need for change is not daily, i do need subtle variety from the regular. it's good, it keeps things clicking and spicy.

ferrence and i were reading about lettuce on wikipedia today. we discovered that eating lettuce in iraq is considered a taboo. the world is a funny place. i'm quite grateful for the humour of it all.

walking through a paper town
counting all the reasons to burn the others down.