i'm still holding onto the polaroid camera from class last year
maybe i'll get polaroid film for chrismas.
because i want to take beautiful images like this
this year.
or more for my birthday?
which i'm so. stoked for.
17, baby.
i feel good things coming on...
polaroids make me feel like the world fits in that little picture frame
and you can slip it into your back pocket
and just hold onto that moment forever.
i've got the one of ben and i on my bulletin board
and everytime i look at it, i get that same warm feeling
that excited, thrilled, cozy feeling
that i got that day when he was here
i could have taken a digital picture
i could have not taken our picture
but i wanted to
and i wanted it on polariod
because that was the mood of that day -
that i wanted to be able to get into the car
in how many ever years
and just drive,
with a polaroid like that in my back pocket
and go somewhere great.
and take that picture.
and then another and then another.
polariods are so romantic.
i think photography in general is romantic
but no body's got anything on polariods.
they just ooze the promise of forever
and the promise of forever
is romantic.
i want a boy again who will take polariods
with me
travel with me and stop by the side of the road
with me
and let me take pictures
of him, of me, of us,
of the world
and then let me slip them into my pocket
and let that romance overwhelm me
during the ride home.
i'm such, SUCH a sucker for romance
daily i'm thinking of the most romantic gestures someone could do for me
and i still always settle
on someone reaching down when we're walking and holding my hand.
holding hands and taking polariods.
maybe i'll ask for that for christmas.
but for now, i'll just get the film.
until someone wants to hold my hand
and i hope it's soon -
it's no fun holding your own hand.