Through My Eyes: A Journal

By Liz Root

Contact Liz by emailing her at liz@vagrantcafe.com

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12/29/2001
on the way to where i am now, jessie and i were listening to a radio program about an "art project" which involved a man and a woman, tied together by a rope for one year. the furthest they could get away from each other was eight feet.

what would happen to you if you were continually in the presence of someone else for that long? 365 days. 52 weeks. they had never met each other before this art project. when the year was finished, the man said he felt unchanged, and the woman went into therapy. craziness.

it was one of the strangest things i've heard.


- liz r. - 12/29/2001

12/28/2001
today i've been reading a book called "On Writing Well." this book is changing the way i think about writing. it changes the way i think about thinking. it's exposing the clutter that lurks around every thought and word. sometimes i say too much, only to find i have said nothing at all.


- liz r. - 12/28/2001


nothing like having to get up at 8 a.m. when i'm used to getting up at oh...10. so here i am drinking bad coffee and trying to keep myself awake by being online.

nothing like having nothing to say at 9:53 a.m.

i read an entire book yesterday. it's not unusual for me to read a book a day. i just hadn't done it in so long. it was "Walking on Water" by Madeleine L'engle. (i probably spelled that wrong.) Today I'm going to tackle Crime and Punishment. I got a library membership yesterday finally and so i'm attempting to brush up on my reading again. i want to read classics and what not. i want to read the authors that all the really good authors mention in their books. the kind of books that last beyond the generation they were written in.

i have a few albums that every time i listen to them, it's like i fall in love with them all over again. today it's cursive's "domestica." what a great cd.

this entry is so lacking.


- liz r. - 12/28/2001

12/27/2001
i haven't been able to post anything in a week or so i guess. i'm just checking in for anyone who follows this to say that i am currently battling a nasty head cold. i'm in one of those modes where i am reading a lot and learning a lot, so in a week or so, i'll probably be writing a lot again.

currently on the mind:
possibilty, eternity, love, art, freedom, prophecy.


- liz r. - 12/27/2001