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Tuesday, December 30th 2008

6:19 PM (329 days, 20h, 59min ago)

I am Laurie

Photobucket I am Laurie,  and for a long time I really didn’t know what that meant. Laurie. . . hum, she was quite a mystery to me. I have found bits and pieces of her in many unexpected places. My memory, in the memories of relatives and friends. I have found pieces of her in photographs and school books, scrap books and diaries. Pieces have floated to me in my dreams and nightmares and even through the eyes of a loving dog.

 She, this Laurie is splattered all over, and I know now that is a GOOD thing- not a bad thing. It is all the collective memories that make up me, the assimilation of my spirit and essence into everything I have touched, seen, heard, felt, known and sought. I am a combination of everyone I have ever met, or seen or read about. The mailman, the store manger, the slow old lady in the car in front of me . My parents, and friends my brothers and cousins, the couple at the next table over, or the person sitting in the seat next to me.

 I am all of these, and they are all of me. What a wonderful feeling of belonging that brings.


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