God Bless America.

This land was made for you and me.

And really, God bless America.

God bless freedom and rights

and education and brotherhood

and oppurtunities.

We're like a big family-

We're messed up and we have a lot of bad things,

but we have it best together,

and I'd like to celebrate today by saying I love America.

I love America.

love always, laura elizabeth.

ps. Instead of endangering the land more, let's all just make our own fireworks tonight. God bless and I love you all.



Forever Young.

Life is crazy,

but I wouldn't have it any other way.

I keep seeing quotes like, "Love burns brighter than the sun."

I disagree.

Love is like the embers of a spent fire, because that's what's left at the end of the day.

Yes, it burns hot, but slowly and completely, too.  It can burn you, but only if you're stupid about it.  What hurts us is generally the immediate flare up, when it's started but sometimes not tended to, or the immediate dousing with cold water.  Love in it's entirety doesn't hurt us, it's everything that could come with it that does, such as loneliness or rejection.  Love is the basic burning that starts in the soul and slowly makes it's way throughout the entire body, down to the toes and up to your nose.  In the bright daylight, perhaps it's hard to see, but when it comes down to when it matters, in the deepest, darkest part of the night, it burns obviously and steadily.  Love will endure.

How often I've breathed those three words silently into you.

love always, laura elizabeth.



I'd stop the world and melt with you.

To put things lightly, he got the jar down for me (the few inches he has on me being all that was needed to reach that high shelf in my soul) and even unscrewed the top I put on so forcefully.

And they were delicious, of course.  Every chocolate chip "remember when" and all the same whirlwind feelings of September 24 baked into the dough.
did you feel the breath when I mouthed those three words into your neck?
Sorry for the absence, those who care.

"Owls and Tacos.  Life is good."

love always, laura elizabeth.

Attitudes, parties, and prom dresses.

A girl worth kissing is not easily kissed.

A girl worth hugging is not easily hugged.

A girl worth loving is not easily loved.

Boyce Avenue.

Mitchell, will you please love me like that?

love always, laura elizabeth.