Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream.

Craig Thompson

Categorized in : Reality Giving Dream

You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.

Craig Thompson

layers twenties soul

Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.

Craig Thompson

wanting-you wanting-someone im-sad

Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But I was also having fun thinking of Orientalism as a genre like Cowboys and Indians is a genre – they’re not an accurate representation of the American west, they’re like a fairy tale genre.

Craig Thompson

cowboy fun thinking

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

Craig Thompson

what-matters soul world

Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds are a little confused by it all and the singing isn't very intense. It only lasts a week or so each fall, but it's still cool to hear spring bird songs at this time of the year.

Craig Thompson

confused spring song

The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer.

Craig Thompson

utah games answers

Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?

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lust temptation

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Craig Thompson

maps movement matter

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

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awful church school

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

Craig Thompson

shame easier share

At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.

Craig Thompson

stars lying fall

Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".

Craig Thompson

space lonely fall

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

Craig Thompson

misery heaven world

You're more than a story.

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stories

I love the sea because it is boundless.

Craig Thompson

boundless sea

Even a mistake is better than nothing.

Craig Thompson

mistake

and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.

Craig Thompson

space real home

Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.

Craig Thompson

grazing lips mines

I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle.

Craig Thompson

infatuation cereal grateful

On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

Craig Thompson

library kids firsts