(the beauty of her & her electric light)

[riverdresses]

the changing light at San Francisco
is none of your East Coast light
none of your
pearly light of Paris
The light of San Francisco
is a sea light
an island light

and the light of the fog
blanketing the hills
drifting in at night
through the Golden Gate
to lie on the city at dawn

and then the halcyon late mornings
after the fog burns off
and the sun paints white houses
with the sea light of Greece
with sharp clean shadows
making the town look like it had just been painted

but the wind comes up at four o'clock
sweeping the hills
and then the veil of early evening
and then another scrim
when the night fog
floats in
and in that vale of light
the city drifts
anchorless upon the ocean.

The Changing Light by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

lately I've been wishing for a name change. Halcyon. Firefly. Sunday. I don't know why. Elizabeth-Betsy is a perfectly good name. One's the name of a girl in skirts spending days in libraries, reading original French novels from the twenties, the other a glimmer of Lolita-flavoured sunshine sitting on a picnic blanket on warm spring days. Both very different, but very sweet girls.

I'm not sure what sort of girls Halcyon, Firefly & Sunday would be. Perhaps I just don't know.

I want to go thrifting sometime soon. I want to buy&make & redesign clothes into pretty date-outfits & awesome everyday wear. I hate most of my clothes now. I want pretty, crazy, wild, vaguely sexy clothes. a lot of my clothes are dull & somewhat uncomfortably tight. Fun when you're in highschool. not so fun when you don't gave to keep up silly little 'appearances' in your own life.

& this article by galadarling is amazing: umbrella lurve! only she could write such amazing snippets about people who own certain types of umbrellas. (& I totally want to buy the birdcage bubble umbrella. & look at the swarovski crystal-splashed umbrella!!)

am also texting with my boyshape right now. he has a cold, sadly. but I told him I'm going to bring him some tea when I see him in two weeks - he likes tea like I do! I do wish I didn't have to wait two weeks to see him again. (he's very busy with school & dance, so I must be patient.)

& lastly: capital letters are silly. very, very silly. I hope my lack of capitals won't bother anyone!

& do you know, I hate the lower case 'I'. I think it looks awful in anything. so I always capitalise them. but in general, Betsy does not enjoy capital letters. Except for 'I' & the 'B' in my name.

Comments

[spacemonkeyluvn.livejournal.com]

That poem is beautiful.

And I kind of want that birdcage bubble umbrella.

[riverdresses.livejournal.com]

it is, isn't it? it's possibly one of my most favourite poems of his.

& I've wanted an umbrella like that for so long! when it rains, I always see people walking around downtown with them, but I'm too shy to ask where they got theirs & I don't think I've seen them in stores. I may have to think about buying one! ^___^

[chocolatemuse.livejournal.com]

I have an umbrella that is Monet's "Waterlillies" and I adore it. I just wished I had a reason to fucking use it :( I hate living in an Ashtray

[riverdresses.livejournal.com]

oooo, pwetty! Mine's blue & DULL.

::huggles::

[pocky_slash.livejournal.com]

You always link to the coolest stuff!

For a long time I used an old black umbrella given to me by an actor friend of mine. The story is thus:
I went to a concert he was singing in while I was sick as hell and had to wait out in the rain for the show to start. When he went in he saw I didn't have an umbrella and said, "Why don't you have an umbrella?! It's raining and you're sick!" Then he proceeded to take his own umbrella inside. The girl I was with burst out laughing as soon as he was gone because that was so typically him. After the show, though, when it had stopped raining he insisted I take his umbrella home with me because I was sick.

Anyway, this was while I was away at college, so it was the only umbrella I had for the next two and a half years. It leaked.

Here at home I prefer a plain black umbrella that has "MoMA" written in red on one panel. I think we got it when we became members there? It used to have confetti plastered onto it because I took it with me to Broadway on Broadway one year and at the end of the show (when they released 32094823904 pounds of confetti into the streets of Manhattan) it started to rain.

I don't know why I felt the need to tell you all about all the umbrellas I've owned. (Well, I guess I'm leaving out the Minnie Mouse umbrella I had as a little girl and the pink rain parasol that my best friend in preschool gave out as a favor at her birthday party one year.)

[fireflyfailure.livejournal.com]

name changes are neccesary [for me anyway, as you know :p]

and hehe! i go by firefly sometimes! awww, we'd be two space!faeries named firefly. :D halcyon has a lovely sound to it though.

but i'll always love the name netsy, cos it reminds me of you.


when i was little, i had an umbrella with pictures from the original alice in wonderland on it. still have i somewhere...
pfft. i like your history-of-umbrellas! ♥

[arriterre.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh. PJ Harvey. PJ Harvey! PJ Harvey! The most beautiful woman in the world!