Urges de Cate

[catelin]

It may be the season...the waiting for spring...but I find myself full of desires lately. I am longing to:

--grow violets on my windowsill
--take long baths in the middle of the day
--write a novella
--rollerskate on my lunch break
--kiss someone until the sun comes up on our swollen lips
--have a secret to keep
--wear dangerous lipstick
--start a lifelong correspondence with someone so that when we are gone our letters will be left for others to gasp and wonder over
--cut my hair
--dance in the moonlight
--catch some rainwater
--languish on a divan
--buy some reeeeeally high heels
--drink mead and tell stories
--meet a tall dark stranger

For now I'll have to be satisfied with buying a new pair of glasses...fucking compromises.

Comments

[strike-anywhere.livejournal.com]

I love mead.

[catelin.livejournal.com]

I used to actually make it before I had children and all my free time went *poof*. I love the stuff!!!

Re:

[strike-anywhere.livejournal.com]

'and all my free time went *poof*'

those are not the words a soon-to-be-father-living-in-denial-about-impending-lifestyle-changes wants to hear.

:)

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! Wake up and smell the baby wipes, dude! It's not bad, though...I wouldn't change a thing. : )

Re:

[strike-anywhere.livejournal.com]

Like most life changing events, I suspect it will be NOTHING like I imagine it to be.

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Oh, it'll probably be something like you imagine...only with a lot less sleep.

[tamperevident.livejournal.com]

i have a friend that makes mead...the kind of mead that you can toss into a bonfire and it ignites. he also makes beer, different kinds of wine...at one point he found an old distiller on the side of the road, cleaned it up, and made decent moonshine. he is a wonderful, wonderful man. of course, he's gay.

[catelin.livejournal.com]

I found a Polish honey wine called Wawel that's even better than most of the mead I've had (and it's pretty cheap too!). Oh, yes...the consumate unfairness of sexual preference...I have several wonderful male friends whom I probably would have married had it not been for the fact that they were gay...and that I was not a man.

[raindog.livejournal.com]

From Greg Brown's song Spring Wind:

I've lived a while without you
Darn near half my life
I no longer see my unborn children
run to you my unwed wife
Oh but yesterday I had a vision
Beneath the tree where we once talked
Of an old couple burning their love letters
So their children won't be shocked
Love calls like the wild bird
It's another day
The spring wind blew my list of things to do
away

So here's what I want to say tonight. Last night I read the comments posted on your site, Cath, and they gave me the sense of peace we are given when we see our children or family protected, loved and safe.

[catelin.livejournal.com]

See? It's a great place, this (to coin a term that Patrick is fond of) digital cocktail party. : )