Below are the 10 most recent journal entries recorded in Chasing 8's LiveJournal:

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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
12:15 am	Few shots together First two are early on, third is from a few months ago, and the fourth is, well, obviously recent. (enlighten me)
Saturday, November 17th, 2007
9:18 pm	For those of you still out there - my girls (10 pearls of wisdom | enlighten me)
Monday, June 18th, 2007
3:08 pm	Dyspnea     noun difficult or laboured breathing. The sordid world seeps in steeped in its heavy humid ways through a circle, cut in glass so there is no window, closed or open. An hourglass, descending through the turgid day, the sand pouring down, down, down into what? Something. Thick and desperate smog leaves sickly yellow layers on languid and discarded thoughts that lost their innocence long ago. With smokers’ lungs and stinging eyes I lift my hand –                        still alive – and let my body linger where it lies. (2 pearls of wisdom | enlighten me)
Saturday, June 16th, 2007
2:39 am	Chains The unhinged door lies dormant in the shady haze of his domain; diaries and journals lie tattered and abused in a room cluttered with his childhood; change waits in broken banks to fund his wandering existence while a paper bag contains the remnants of wooden cities, built high just to be torn down. (enlighten me)
Thursday, June 14th, 2007
10:16 pm	She Has Light Ways She has light ways, like water, soft, and windy hard. It is not by grace nor folly that makes her so, for she is made of moonlight and dew. (enlighten me)
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
9:43 pm	To a Willow Tree in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Wisdom found in each drooping branch, nestled in the beard of an old man who stands stooped but firm at the edge of the world... (cascading) ...surrounded by the speeding monuments of the living - above, below, around and through - that infringe upon the slabbed stones of the dead; past the Eaton mausoleum where men bring their excesses, and lions keep their secrets, to the grave. (cas- cad- ing) What memories and tears of long ago romances and funereal rites have you etched into your bark and drunk into your roots? This is our waterfall of cascading leaves that do not drown us but embrace us as in the arms and sighs of a hundred friends and lovers. Oh, wily willow tree, rain your wiry willowed branches     down on me. (enlighten me)
9:41 pm	Procession Yellow paper lanterns guide our way;     our bare feet feel chalky on the dirt path. To others,     we must look like ghosts,     yet the hand I feel in mine         is real, and earnest. We smile at each other as our feet reach the grass,     wet with dew. The lanterns and the world grow dim,     as fate, conquered,     fades to a darkness         darker than night. (3 pearls of wisdom | enlighten me)
9:39 pm	These Words In the morning,     crisp and warming light     splays across the bedroom     ease the numbness     beckon forth these words I speak will mean something In the afternoon     damp and asthma heat     sheaths our bodies stickily     passion serves us     and renews us these words I speak will mean something In the evening     starlit moonshine bath     cradles and protects us     the future’s blindness     the dying light these words I speak might mean something In the sleepless hour     high frequency whining     knifes through the silence     eyes go blurry     and tilt down         those words I spoke         you have forgotten perhaps tomorrow’s words will mean something (enlighten me)
Sunday, May 20th, 2007
5:14 am	Change Across the expanse of our transaction –     two quarters,     a dime,         and a nickel – my fingertips dance upon your palm like raindrops on an open flower. I dare not look up for fear of your indifference. (2 pearls of wisdom | enlighten me)
Saturday, May 19th, 2007
10:21 pm	The Weaning I try to remove your name from my lips and sear away any trace of sweet poison     from my tongue, for there is a direct line from my lips to my heart, and while my lips and heart deceive me,     my mind knows,         though is stubborn. (1 pearl of wisdom | enlighten me)