Airports

Airports are a sanctity in many ways. An energy...a wide eyed liberation...a beating heart breaking through, a breath inhaled in new fresh air. A soft kiss from a lover you've been missing for weeks, months, years. A grandmother with her eyes welling reaching out for that gratifying grasp. It's peace and rest and boredom. It's an answer to the end of the security line. Uncomfortable black seats, free wi fi, pilots draggin their suitcases behind them on their next journey--so prestige and ironed. It's achy bones and tired eyes. But one thing that I love most about airports is that it's that first moment where you enter a new realm, a new find waiting to be discovered. I notice something different about my hometown everytime I get off a plane and step onto it's announcing cold frigid concrete biting back at my temporary disapearance.

The airport is the only place that I can waste time and not feel guilty. I can get that book finished and I can people watch better than I can even at the downtown mall. I love people so much. I feed off of strangers energy, off of their emotion. I see the weary mom dragging her child behind her trying to find an impossible healthy food choice for her boy. I see a woman dressed to the "t" with beautiful blonde hair down to her back and searching eyes hoping someone will give her a second glance as a reward for her hours of preparedness of the day. I see screaming teenagers exhilerated to run into an old friend traveling to the same destination. I notice the way I feel in an airport, both escape and return. Always there is a lingering anxiety. A livening anxiety at most. But everytime I enter an airport I hope I run into someone I know. Someone that I will recognize. Sometimes my vision expectantly plays tricks on me and everyone looks distincty familiar. That little girl reminds me of my cousin, that beautiful twenty something year old man reminds me of an ex lover. That older woman reminds me of my best friends mom. It always brings me back to the reality that although we are all individuals and rare in every sense of the word we are all somehow someway connected to humanity. <3

Add this to the list

...of things to make me cry pre-wedding..hahaha..gosh I'm pathetic...

The scene with Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire when he was photographing her in her wedding dress...



That scene is completely timeless. Audrey Hepburn is an iconic beauty that lived a life of grace and selflessness. She was so incredibly talented and I'm obsessed. lol

ahh I could go on and on about her...I would love to be as beautiful and graceful as her.

Some other favorite brides:

















lol...very random but I like them all :)

Marry me

First song to bawl like a baby when listening to regaurding my big next move in life :)

I love Alex so much and I'm so excited. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ess2qlVHl6E


Lyrics to Marry Me by Train

Forever can never be long enough for me
Feel like I've had long enough with you
Forget the world now, we won't let them see
But there's one thing left to do

Now that the weight has lifted
Love has surely shifted my way

Marry me today and every day
Marry me if I ever get the nerve to say hello in this cafe
Say you will, say you will

Together can never be close enough for me
Feel like I am close enough to you
You wear white and I'll wear out the words I love you
And you're beautiful

Now that the wait is over
And love and has finally shown her my way

Marry me today and every day
Marry me if I ever get the nerve to say hello in this cafe
Say you will, say you will

Promise me you'll always be happy by my side
I promise to sing to you when all the music dies

And marry me today and everyday
Marry me if I ever get the nerve to say hello in this cafe
Say you will, say you will marry me