Haylasweet Times

Bennington: “When someone falls, what do you do?” Audience: “Pick him up!” — Chester Bennington of Linkin Park “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” — Maya Angelou “The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past.” — Corey Taylor of Slipknot “But if there’s love, dear… those are the ties that bind, and you’ll have a family in your heart,…

I’ve waited all week to spit into a can. I’m secretly a deer and it’s my time to run away. The circle of evil breaks this night. Bear attack! All my self-assurance has spread at an alarming rate and I think it’s time to rein it in a bit. What? No board meeting for me; Iiiiii’ve got a date! I’m sorry, but if my dog can’t come there’s really no means for me to travel. Actually, could…

What a rebel, calling peace antidoteand poem testamentof all days and nights that follow usinto obscurity, anonymity, the maskundone, and behind it frailmystic menace shot with fright.What a bone to pick with you,lonely dancer of the songchanted in terse, voluptuous terrorthat might’ve carried with its bellclinging to the clang and cuckooa simpler tale of the tattling heartthan the memory steeped…

Negative thoughts are often a silent alarm (or a fire alarm, depending) that something in me requires attention. The inclination of the human in me is, perhaps, to pay attention with dominance, the desire to quell the alarm with a firm response. Seems the route most efficient to ending the problem, which appear to be the thoughts themselves. Except it isn’t, and they aren’t. The problem is more…

One of love, and adventure, and glee. The fanciful flights of fancy that take me places more kindred in spirit than I could ever imagine prior, with the heart of me beating all around and the heart of a friend beside me through whatever part of my story they wish to share as their story and ours all at once. I wish to make people laugh and remember their strength, and to help people find…

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What book are you reading right now? Akai Ito (Visual Novel): This novel will make you want to dive headfirst into linguistics. The mystery is so well executed and so subtle. The Uzuki route is just so good—so many twists and turns—so cute—so much character development—I love it zomg my heart. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin A rich multi-tale nesting doll of why we dream and…

What’s your favorite album? I plan to expand upon this list and write a much more full-bodied piece exploring each album and their influences on my life. Until then, here is the list, in no particular order, as they are all delightful in their own unique ways that warm my heart and spark my excitement: Rabbits on the Run — Vanessa Carlton Duets — Frank Sinatra Twicetagram — Twice Born to…

Mrs. Dalloway Men must not cut down trees. There is a God. (He noted such revelations on the backs of envelopes.) Change the World. No one kills from hatred. Make it known (he wrote it down). He waited. He listened. A sparrow perched on the railing opposite chirped Septimus, Septimus, four or five times over and went on, drawing its notes out, to sing freshly and piercingly in Greek words how…

Sometimes we can get so caught up in the macro-spindle of the universe’s quantum entanglements (celebrity culture, the stock market, political theater, workplace drama, etc.) that we follow suit and bunch ourselves ever-tighter in self-protection of spirit, body, mind, and heart. This is natural, and sometimes necessary depending on what each experiential context demands. However, much like with…