a moving castle

I’m so inside myself I can barely contain it

My Top 5 Reads in 2018

I read a grand total of 18 books in 2018. Fitting, but a very sad number. I used to read over 50 books a year as a teenager. Even during my time at uni, I would read over 30 a year. What happened? Sure it was my last semester and busy as heck, but then I graduated in June and had the whole summer off. I got a job in October but now had a ton of free time after work. And still, I barely read this…

Listening to Strangers

There was a man on the train and he was on the phone and he ordered flowers. He said, “yes, I’d like to order flowers” and he said he didn’t want hydrangeas and they had to be purple and yellow. Then he said to deliver them on Sunday, which is Mothers Day so he is probably getting them for either his wife on behalf of his kids or his mother. Or maybe he has neither a wife…

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Hey sad little flag

What’s holding you down

Hey sad little flag 

Why don’t you wave in the wind

Hey sad little flag you hold our nations pride

Come on why don’t you

go on with the tide

I feared the thing inside myself

The vast unchartered land

Alive but unbeknownst to me

It betrayed the empty feeling

I had burrowed underneath

It made me crumble into pieces

Weep sorrow mourning cries

Until my face glowed red

And my breaths turned slow

The shadows stood around me

Darkening my view

And I no longer was considered

The stronger of them all

So in order to control the vines

that crept…

A silent reminder that things are in motion even when I am not

What are you doing now?

I graduated last month (woo!) and I am not even kidding when I say that every. single. person. that I have spoken to the past 30+ days has asked me that awful question. In various forms, sentence structures, grammar choices. What am I doing now? Whats the plan? What are you up to? It makes me so freaking mad.

Let me tell you why this makes me angry.

First of all, I just graduated after four years…

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So I’m going to start a blog

I’ve got things to say. I’m an English and Writing major, recently graduated. I’ve done a bit of traveling, not as much as I’d like. I keep a private journal, why not keep a public one? If anybody reads it. Maybe somebody will read it one day. Then it’ll be public. For now, I’m talking to myself and then putting it out there just in case someone hears me and then I won’t be talking to myself. I…

I should start a blog

I should start a blog.

I’m home most of the time.

I work from home.

I rarely leave my small, suburban, dull town.

Not much going on right now.

Yeah, let’s start a blog.

I’ve got loads to talk about.

Hi I’m Halah and I’m a sarcastic –

Yeah let’s start a blog.

What is Art? The plain definition of art is “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.”  When we think of art, we typically see coloured paintings framed and hung on bare white walls, marble sculptures in Rome, bright ballet…