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Gavin Smith at 32 years old...and he still loves to shred.

Workin' on those #maneuvers. #shred #skate #skateboarding #garvanzaskatepark #shralp #1foot #nocomply 🎥 @leninlora #california

1foot! 1 little foot! AM I A DINOSAUR?!?! Nooo... but I do live in Oklahoma (fossil central?) and I do love to write and do things that involve things that I shall write about. I am a girl, a human girl, in case that became unclear somewhere. I am 25swf's guest here, so I will respect her boundaries and her rules. As we all know, she can really be a taskmaster. Just kidding she's only given me basically free license. Beware! I love long tangled sentences. Can't wait to meetchall. Meet you all. Good gravy I'm an Oklahoman.  

I love my red water bottle. We are rarely separated. It even came with me to the bar last weekend. Filled with water. This is a thing about me. Oklahoma, Oklahoma - I had a dream about you last night where there was a truck crashed in my front yard and I was packing, packing, packing and I never. Stopped. Packing. I keep telling myself it's time, I'm ready to leave, to walk out the doors - if only for an intermission. You see, there are too many memories here. This is too much the place where We were Together. And our togetherness is too much over. So I need to leave, right? But... I have this thing.  About my feet. Regina Spektor sings about it here.  And what happened was, I was trying to create my user name, and there was waaaay too much frustration and I was thinking waaaay too much about it, and I had my Adele Pandora station on (which, by the way, is a great station for all you female vocalist fans out there) and I was about to go to bed because it was 1 in the morning (way too much time spent on this thing) and then... well, Ms Spektor popped up with her lovely song, which, in the true nature of happenstance (if happenstance can be said to have a true nature) (can you tell I lurve parentheses?), I had never, never actually listened to the lyrics of before, even though I have stated many times that I love Regina Spektor and I love this song. SO the moral of this one-long-sentence story is: I took my feet off the ground two and a half years ago and in turn lived two years of my life in a state of glorious love and happiness, for the most part. Five months ago, my feet hit the ground so hard, I'm still feeling the shock waves. Now, my goal is to be able to trust in the air again, to be able to let my feet leave the ground  in whatever form this takes, and to know that this is a good thing to do. I've been far far away before, almost as far away as it gets. And I'm craving that distance again, so be prepared for posts about that. Also please be prepared for posts about, well, almost anything. So, not a real great Intro To Me section, and it's pretty long. But, this is me right now. And this could change at any time. Because when I finally throw myself back into the wind, I think I'll be more grounded than ever. But I'm taking the water bottle with me, yo. byebye -1foot

Five months after we broke up – We’re sitting in my living room. I’ve just given him a Christmas present. A really cool Christmas present. Why? I can’t say. I don’t know. And he’s given me nothing, except his best sad eyes. And he asks me if he can give me a hug, which of course leads to us… well, forgetting. Choosing not to remember, rather. But it doesn’t go very far at all this time before we stop, collect ourselves, and sit back down. We’re not doing this again. We’ve been here before, a few times in the past five months, and we know exactly where it leads – straight to my bedroom. And afterward, for him, straight to the door. So instead, we sit and talk. I tell him he knows me better than anyone else. He says that he forgot that detail, during the course of our relationship. He says he also forgot that the opposite is true, that I know him better than anyone. He says maybe it’s easy to forget those things when you’ve been with another person for so long. I agree, but inside I’m thinking, I never forgot that. I won’t say it out loud though. “I never forgot that,” I hear myself say out loud. “I’ve never forgotten that.” Yes. I tell him that I think I’ve been deluding myself into thinking maybe we were just on a break. I hold back the fact that maybe one reason I’ve thought that is the multiple times he’s come over to tell me he misses me, he loves me (but not like that), maybe things could work out, and from here, well. All roads lead to sex, ladies and gentlemen. He tells me that he doesn’t want to hurt me. (Um… too late…) I tell him, “It doesn’t matter if it hurts, as long as it’s the truth.” I say that. He looks me straight in the eye. “That’s true.” He takes a breath. “I think about marriage, a lot. And family, a lot.  I think about that stuff, all the time, about the type of family I’m going to have, and what it’s going to be like when I’m married and have kids. And the truth is, I could just never imagine you in that scenario.” I can’t believe I said it doesn’t matter if it hurts. This matters. This hurts. This hurts like I need to open my insides and remove those words and fold myself back together, because maybe that will hurt less. Because we were together for two years and the whole time, and even this whole time, the only person I can really see in that future with me is, of course, him. And I say to myself, but out loud, that I guess I just need to accept the fact that I’m not able to be loved by him. That for whatever reason, I don’t measure up to his standards. And I believe this. And he agrees with me. I wish I felt differently. I used to feel differently. I used to feel like it was him who didn’t measure up, who wasn’t good enough for me. But those words, those words. They gutted me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Update** I wrote that above part 3 weeks ago. But in terms of my current mental/emotional state, it might as well have been 3 years ago. I can't quite say what happened, what turned the switch. But I finally got angry. Really and truly angry at him. I stopped letting my friends and family members carry the anger that I wanted to feel so badly, and I claimed it for my own. I strongly believe that the anger stage is the last stop before true emotional healing can begin. The key is letting go of that anger when the time comes. And I want to take you with me through that phase of my journey, but I don't have all the words to describe it yet. I was broken. He broke me some more. The bubble burst, and I hated him with all my heart. Then, on a day not so long after I hated him, I stopped hating him. I'm not sure what replaced the hate, or if anything did at all. I still get angry sometimes when I think about him, but it's... less potent. Most of you don't know who I am, and I'm not going to be able to give you an orderly account of my life and relationships up to this point, mainly because I'm still sorting some of it out for myself. For now, let me say that even though I've been through the love-wringer at the ripe old age of 23, I still stand by this fortune cookie quote I received one day after my most recent breakup: "Time flies. Suns rise and shadows fall. Let time go by. Love is forever over all." bye bye,  

It's bad enough going through one breakup, but to go through two? At once? Yeesh. No, I wasn't dating two people at the same time, but when my most recent boyfriend broke up with me, I also had to break up with Bob Dylan. And who wants to do that? REWIND. In high school, I met Bob. We clicked, and I thought it couldn't hurt to learn more about him. He was older than me, but I've always gotten along better with older people. We were both poets. We both liked complicated sentences and topsy-turvy lyrical creations. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan became my go-to album. Then I discovered Blonde on Blonde. And Highway 61 Revisited. And Nashville Skyline. And Bringing It All Back Home (and oh, I brought it). And on. And on. I. Was. In. Love. A guy who had a crush on me during high school burned me a bunch of mixed Bob CDs. I blew it off then because I was flighty and 17, and it ain't me, but I still have those CDs and I still treasure them and the sentiment. But me and Bob, we were just a duo that couldn't be beat. I found myself in his lyrics, and I was transported time and again from a dingy, smoky basement bar to a misty forest, to a dusty Depression Era farm, and back again. I had long, dizzying discussions with friends who just couldn't understand why he was so famous, why people couldn't stop talking about him, and writing about him, when his singing voice was... rough, to say the least. And his lyrics, for them, were impenetrable. They just didn't see in him what I saw in him. But Bob and I just got each other. His words untangled my dreams. And his oeuvre - well. There are plenty of books written on that subject. I can say a lot about him, but the main point is, Robert Allen Zimmerman and I were in it for the long haul. When I was bouncing around musically in college, Bob was my one constant. I saw him perform once, at Drillers Stadium in Tulsa, and I sneakily worked my way up to the front row on the field. From there, I could see in glorious detail the sweaty, wild hair, the slightly puffy face, and his cheeks as they bellowed in and out. He was lackluster that night, and I really couldn't understand what he was saying at any given moment, but it didn't matter. That is a night that lives in my memory as happy. When I went to Russia and lived there for a year, Bob came with me. He stayed up with me on Sunday nights when I couldn't sleep, his words swirling around my brain, letting me know it was okay to be awake now, we were part of the night, together. I got his music for Christmas and birthdays. People came to me to get CDs burned of his albums. I wondered, at first, if I would ever get sick of him. But as time passed, I stopped worrying about ever losing him, and just began to enjoy the moment. I never, ever thought that anyone or anything could come between me and Bob. And then I met ___. In September of 2008. Immediately, we clicked, and of course, he loved Bob too. How could he not? It was meant, it was destined. We took a road trip together in January of 2009, and he had just bought the Bootleg Series V. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue. We probably listened to that entire album no fewer than 15 times that trip. It was serious. There was this part in the album when he would lip sync one of Bob's songs for me, and I loved it. It made me so giddy. And then came my birthday, and he bought me some Bob stuff. And then my next birthday, and more Bob stuff. And basically, we three were happy together. Until we weren't anymore. When ___ broke up with me last August, I thought I would turn to Bob for comfort. Like usual. I tried to listen to him, to get him to speak to me again, but he just looked at me sadly, and spoke only dust. My favorite songs had become mournful dirges. And this had become a song linked directly to me. Beyond here lies nothin' The lyrics that used to wrap up my troubled mind turned to dry leaves and crumbled under my feet. I reached out, but Bob had turned away. Go lightly from the ledge babe. Go lightly from the ground. I'm not the one you want babe. I'll only let you down. I always thought he was warning me against falling too hard, too fast. I didn't realize that he was foreseeing our own breakup, envisioning the time when I would turn to him, when I would need him most, and he wouldn't be there. He wouldn't be enough. You say you're lookin' for someone, who'll promise never to part. Someone to close his eyes for you. Someone to close his heart. A lover for your life and nothing more... but it ain't me, babe. No, no, no it ain't me, babe. It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe. I know Bobby D's still there. I know what I really need is to "rememorize", as 25swf puts it, some of his songs. But he's been gone from my life for almost 8 months now, and I can feel the void. I can't wait to reclaim him for my own, to move past the mark that ___ put on him. To really follow him down, and to be okay with what I find there. I know that when I find Bob again, he won't be completely without ___'s residue. We were all too close to ever really be separated. But I want to have faith that when Bob and I rekindle our flame, he will have grown with me, and his lyrics will resonate in new, more meaningful ways. Can I come home with you, baby can I come home with you ? Yes I'll do anything in this godalmighty world If you just let me come home with you. byebye, 1foot