gray skies and poetry

Through Ash

The thing about us
that will make us unlike anyone else
is that we are built
on a foundation of sadness, and a foundation of struggle
on endurance.
Our love grew through the hardest times.
We are the new growth after the fire has cleared the forest
pushing through the ashes of the life that lived before us
and starting new.
We are the uncurling fern
wrapped tight upon ourselves
slowly showing the world and
the light above that is filtering through the clouds
our arms outstretched.
We are built on the singed remains
of silent secrets that we finally
finally set fire to.
We are the virgin stems
and unspoiled leaves
we are the green beating hearts inside new growth.
The sound of our heart’s beat
echoes across the charred
and empty wasteland of all that’s been
burned down.
The thing about us
is that we will never stop growing.
As we burst slowly into the blue skies
like explosions in slow motion
our fingers like vines
will wrap around each other
and twisted we will reach for the
light above. Together.
In this twist and in this shared
spiral upwards
we grow strong.
We will be the contrast,
the green against the black on gray
the new against the shining and crumbling
pieces of the old.
The burning of our wait and the
metamorphosis that shows
all others the colors we’ve been hiding,
the life that only the flames
and only the ashes
could produce.

-Tyler Knott Gregson-

Currently listening to: Love Song by Macklemore

xoxo
Caitlin
caitlinboyd72@gmail.com

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

xoxo
Caitlin
caitlinboyd72@gmail.com

Currently...

Reading- Poker Face: the Rise and Rise of Lady GaGa by Maureen Callahan...as well as Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Foer.
Also on my list to read is Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Torture and Democracy by Darius Rjali, and Paris Underground by Mark Ovenden

Listening to- Assorted Christmas music on the radio, both at home and at work. Nonstop. AND Tony's new talented CD.

Baking- Pretzels and No-bake Cookies with Lil' Momma

Wearing- My new husky sweatshirt! It was a late birthday present/early Christmas present from my aunt and uncle

Watching- all the documentaries and movies I haven't had time for this last quarter. The list includes: Restrepo, The Box, Green Zone, The Cove, The Lottery, Fair Game, and Taxi to the Dark Side

Enjoying- the smell of my new candle, a quiet house, and a day off of this 40 hour work schedule!

Looking forward to- starting my marathon training for June 2011...it begins with shoe shopping of course. Also, Canon Beach after Christmas with the Villellas and hopefully a New Year's celebration up in Seattle with Finn.


xoxo
Caitlin
caitlinboyd72@gmail.com

Fly Away

This is how I cope with things I don't like... whether it's that conversation I don't want to have or that feeling I want to avoid:

I run.
I go to France, I move to Seattle, I stop returning texts, I make travel plans, I change the subject, I busy myself with other things.
I'm good at running.

And it's because running is easier than facing myself or what I'm afraid of.

2011 Montpellier Application, here I come.

Currently listening to Coming Home by Diddy

xoxo
Caitlin
caitlinboyd72@gmail.com

finals.finally.

Francais.
l'imparfait, passe compose, plus que parfait, vocabulaire, superlatif, comparatif, j'taime.

International Conflict.
power transition, realism, militarism, democratic peace, nationalism, ideology, diversionary war, balance of power, russo-japanese war, international relations, just cause, ethics.

Human Rights.
universal declaration of human rights, human trafficking, constitutions, treaties, united nations, guantanamo bay, international criminal court, inalienable rights, liberia, jus cogens.

These three subjects consume me.
Only three days left until I am a free woman.

Currently listening to: I Go Away by MNDR

xoxo
Caitlin
caitlinboyd72@gmail.com