“Girl as wolfess. Girl as continuum. Girl as matchstick.
Girl as titanium. Girl as porcelain. Girl as fighter.
Girl as lover. Girl as born into the protest. Girl as revolution
lungs. Girl as never known another way. Girl as witch.
Girl as Eve. Girl as Adam. Girl as born from her own rib.
Girl as stormy sky. Girl as larger than life. Girl as shriek.
Girl as gold. Girl as blood. Girl as the quiet before the storm.
Girl as shards. Girl as love. Girl as life. Girl as light.
Girl as fist. Girl as coil. Girl as sugar rain. Girl as gentle meets
strong. Girl as soft. Girl as dandelion fluff. Girl as scorpion.
Girl as a spoonful of poison. Girl as burn. Girl as drown.
Girl as wings. Girl as momentum. Girl as promise.
Girl as melody. Girl as harmony. Girl as song. Girl as sing.
Girl as anthem. Girl as impulse. Girl as warrior.
Girl as hope for a better tomorrow. Girl as roses. Girl as the
thorns on roses. Girl as complete. Girl as her own.”
“Aries - Embrace what they tried to take from you. Own what tried to ruin you.
Taurus - You have every right to be proud of accomplishing even the most mundane of things.
Gemini - The finish line isn’t worth anything if you’re having to destroy everyone else to get there.
Cancer - Be a little less reckless and a little more brave.
Leo - We’re all falling in love with watching you come back to life.
Virgo - You don’t have nine lives. Stop wasting away this one.
Libra - You’re better than their pettiness.
Scorpio - Your suffering was loud, but baby, your healing is brighter
Sagittarius - You’re doing more than just getting by, even if you don’t see it yet. It’s a matter of the big picture.
Capricorn - Why are you expecting anyone else to listen if you don’t even like the sound of your own voice?
Aquarius - Get ready for a string of green lights in a row.
Pisces - You dug your own grave this time.
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in the future, love is a punishable crime. so when they found us together, they stripped away our memories and feelings and sent us away to enslavement camps. you were in the business of learning how to preserve memories so the day before they took us you put them into baggies marked with our name. while i was away, i made friends with a blue-haired girl with a dragon tattooed onto her arm and she breathed smoke during the day but cried herself to sleep at night. together we organized a break out and you were driving the getaway car but we looked right past each other like we had never changed each other’s worlds. you told us you had heard talk about a group of rebels that were keeping memories preserved for anybody that came looking. when we showed up, the guy behind the counter’s eyes lit up and he didn’t even have to ask your name. the blue haired girl took hers first and her face fell slack and she cried when she remembered her little sister and how she’d stolen food to keep them full during the winter and she’d been caught. she peered into my bag afterwards, it was overflowing and she told me to be careful because that much emotion was sure to bring on a migraine. you were hiding behind the counter and avoiding eye contact. i finished my bag and the girl sat clutching my hand when i began to sway and when i looked back up you were watching me and now we were both in on the secret. and we had found each other again, and again, and again, and in another lifetime and in another world.
As y’all may know, from one of my previous posts, I am a huge fan of Alicia Keys’ single ‘Fire We Make’ featuring the sexy Maxwell. It is only right that we feature the video on our blog, for not only the song, but also for it taking place in our city, New Orleans. This video is soulful, old school, seductive, and so Nola babaaay. It will have you knee deep in your feelings. Nothing like an artist delivering a video that does a song justice by exceeding your expectations. I can’t explain how much I love these two! So much beautifulness in one video laaawd! This is the perfect intro for summer! Whats better than love in New Orleans right?!
“… an amazing time to be in New Orleans; the heat, the French Quarter, and him.. and we fell in love.”
Enjoy,
Yas, xo.