“I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.” – William Faulkner
You know what I was not meant to have? Control. Self-, others-, situational-, political-, government-, project-, subordinate-. None of it. I am involuntarily exerting control over my words, even as I type them. I used to be able to write freely, flowingly, honestly, carelessly. Not in an “I-don’t-care-about-others” kind of…
>why do i do this to myself? why do i wait until the last minute to do whatever it is that i need to do?…
>if you know me very well, at all, you will find this anecdote both amusing and familiar: while searching for a completely unrelated item yesterday,…
>only yesterday (friday september 2) did i allow myself to see post-Katrina images, moving or still. and i am pleased with that decision. i placed…
>so, today, i continued my ongoing quest for a church to become a part of here in the area, and upon leaving the second service…

I’m Christi, and I have been writing, well, since I learned to write as a little girl. I learned in my 40’s that writing saves lives and sanity, and that is exactly why I am still here.