Shop Hesby

Every great living room in the history of eveeeer has had a great rug. I haven’t done my fact checking on this one, but I’m almost certain that it has to be true.

I can attest because without a rug the awkward empty space between my couch and coffee table felt like an abyss. My feet were cold and I didn’t have any desire to hangout and read a book on the couch. Clear signs of an unfinished room.

I scoured the internet for a month and a half before I finally found this Shop Hesby rug and fell in love. I knew that it was just what we needed to bring color, life, and warmth into the space.

I was totally right and I couldn’t be happier with the way this little space is turning out! It’s not perfect yet, but these things take longer than a minute if you want to do them right. Or so I’m told.

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You're born and in a snap you're paying rent and buying toilet paper and all of your utensils belong to you

Your heart is covered in tape and hot glue and pushpins and strings

And you are no longer a child

And all the words you have ever spoken exist in between two parentheses on your face

You're born and all of these things really do happen in a snap

But five minutes can feel like a lifetime when you're waiting for the final beep on the microwave 

Maybe we aren't always meant to purge the weight of the people who have sunk their feet into the soft places of our heart.  

I am heavy with the weight of one thing sure

Next time the earth makes its orbit around the sun

I want to be standing next to you

on love and cigarettes

Sitting on sidewalks underneath golden glowy streetlights

Smoking cigarettes and telling secrets to the night sky

Every piece of you, stitched so tightly together, comes undon

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In between us, illusions of intimacy

The weight of your soul pressed up against mine, making love in midair

You keep apologizing, but I ask you to stop

I want to tell you that I'm not afraid of everything that you are

unravel

     unravel

          unravel

                unravel

Maybe someday we will move in freedom

Lips and all

A Text Message from Mom

"Pick a place to raise a family and raise a family. Never move. Put down new roots. Start new traditions. Pass on the traditions and words and sayings that mean something to you, and just let someone love you simply. Complicated love is so hard. The grass is never greener - same thing different challenges and different fun. Every relationship (from the one you have with your special pet, girlfriends, in laws, and spouse) requires both parties to put in one hundred percent. It’s not 50/50. You are loyal, and that will translate beautifully for you in your relationships to come."