20 Apr 2010
“It’s odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don’t quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.” ~Lady Bird Johnson
- paint her toes
- send a text
- have a baby
- get accepted to a college
- spend a weekend alone
- get walked down the isle
- dance
- choose a haircut
- stay out late
- lie
- cook
- kiss a man
- embarrass me
- burn her mouth on pizza
- bring home a puppy
- steal something
- row a boat
- marry
- have detention
- choose fingernail polish
- pass a test
- yell “I hate you”
- buy a present
- hide nor seek
- tell a joke
- dress inappropriately
- get rejected from a college
- ski
- dial a phone
- choose to wear a sheitel
- sneak a cigarette
- get laid
- daven
- pick her nose
- masturbate
- do gymnastics
- jump in a pile of leaves
- put on makeup
- undress
- write a book report
- give a present
- smoke pot
- dress up
- surf the web
- sew
- study all night
- be embarrassed by me
- ice skate
- pee in the woods
- say “I love you”
- order a meal
- buy a present
- be a best friend
- have an orgasm
- kiss a boy
- be in a recital
- run away from home
- spend a weekend alone
- dress down
- lie to her parents
- make a costume
- hike
- send an email
- discuss a movie
- be a ballerina
- learn to drive
- study all night
- gossip
- ride a bicycle
- give a present
- make snow angels
- clean her room
I don’t think Lady Bird ever used the word ‘hell’.
Bake bread, get a first job, see the view from a high hill…bittersweet.
This blog post has me thinking more than anything you have ever written. Way to go for getting inside my head dude… 🙂
I’m going to take you to task for some of the things on your list. You say all the time that other people put their own ideas on Pearlsky. I think with this you’re doing it yourself.
I was going to write more and then deleted it. I’m just sayin’ don’t put limits on her. 🙂