sweetheart redux

I'm doing a project where myself and hopefully others choose a favorite photo, then write 1 description of the dream way we'd like to be perceived, and 1 description of an ideal life.  I'm going first to get the ball rolling. I would like to be thought of as a beautiful artist poet who works a 9-5 desk job out of bravery and necessity to provide well for my family, but for it to be evident that the drudgery of work doesn't touch my soul.  I want to seem smart, funny, nurturing to underdogs, and potty-mouthed.  And for everyone to think that I am a wonderful mother, a little intimidating to strangers, honest about my feelings when I don't like someone, bound for some really special fate, and above all, charmed. My ideal life involves winning the lottery, keeping my los angeles home, owning a small home in an English Countryside, buying a small home for my mom, dad and Stepmom and my husband's family, writing an absolutely pure, heartbreaking, long, ...

   

secular humanism

  h i darlings.  the a bove were some excer pts from a zine that doesn't seem to b e date d, but i recall writing it my sec ond year of college/olympia, in spring of 1999 i think.  it is called Breath Alphabet:  Children's Dictionary .  Y ou may notice the alphabe t's a little light in this dictionary , which is becau se i don't like some of the definitions i wrote anymore .  i hop e you e njoyed. xoxo  robin p.s. aw, when i wrote the part about preferring to think of the Beatles as all being dead, George hadn't died yet.