MOUNTAIN SCHOLARS! Oh my GOD I miss you so much. It's a little unbelievable. You know how Harry says he misses Hogwarts so much it's like a constant stomachache? Guess what! Now I know how he feels. If missing people were measured in feet, I would miss/love (liss!) you all more than Jack Kruse's height PLUS mine. I mean the latter's not saying much but that's okay. Anywaaaaaaaaay as many of you know I am currently globetrotting through all these writing camps and one of the prompts we had was to create a sentence expressing a whole bunch of emotion, happysadangrysorryetc all rolled into one amazing feeling. Naturally I had a whole host of ideas at the forefront of my mind with you guys. This is the sentence I wrote.

Even though the forty-five faces mixed with nineteen flowers was the only image the ink-laden 8x10 paper showed, in it she saw so much more than simple eyes and petals: an illuminated pile of secrets in the only house still spilling light at 1 a.m.; the attempt to sing about hitch-hikers and wagon wheels, only to be thwarted by the inability to control sobs; the raucous classroom shoving aside Woodrow Wilson for a double rainbow; the wild hair obscuring her vision after four days found in the new wilderness; the night spent in their tangled arms, watching the moon rise to its zenith above a hill of gardens, before the end.

I REALLY EFFING MISS YOU. Please call! text! facebook! email! write! stalk! whatever! i will be so happy to just even see your name. pleasepleaseplease take care and be happy. I LOVE YOU ALL! lots of love and hugs