Object Annotation by saille is planting praxis
September 22nd, 2008 5:44 PM / Location: 39.751891,-78.37311The object is a specific tree in a specific grove of a specific public section of semi-public campground vaguely local to me and very, very local to the home of my heart. As for the content of the note, the story is not yet over, but today I would call it happy.
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I. You sheltered a lover and I once, protecting our hearts from the noise of the city as much as our bodies from passers by. Thank you. II. When my lover went away, I came to you alone and cried at your feet.
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III. In the dead of winter, you had no leaves to hide me, yet I felt safe and loved just the same.
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IV. I will never understand how lovers can carve this thanks into tree skins.
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V. as if injuring a living thing would make their love last.
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VI. I am content to tell the world we were in love and let it go when autumn comes.
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VII. A tree can bear witness again in spring if it is meant to be. Thank you.
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Totally worth my first vote of the era.
I have no points yet I must vote!
This one'll have to wait for a while.
I also must vote, but I feel like I can't give as many points as this deserves.
I expect that I'm going to get that feeling a lot now. Voting is a lot harder in the new system. :) I like that, actually--it makes votes feel more meaningful.
I like that, actually--it makes votes feel more meaningful.
me too, even if i know i won't be giving OR receiving anywhere near the volume of vote points i want to. i woke up in the morning to check this page and Lincoln's votes almost made me cry. no one could have affected me like that in Insatiability. i also think we're going to be leaving a lot more commentary now, which tends to carry more real communicative content than fixed parcels of points from an infinite supply. it'll be interesting to get used to.
also, geez, guys, thank you.
This was like what our first era was like! It's why I vote like I vote.
Out of curiosity, then, how do you vote? I'm not trolling for rare and precious Ink Tea vote points or apt to change the way I do things, but starting at Insatiability, I'm finding it hard not to max out my vote-giving credit card, as you've said.
I'm trying to give out a few points of vote where I think tons are deserved while staring at my calendar and keeping in mind that I have another 18 days before my next planned tasking and thus guaranteed vote-point acquisition. I also kind of want to wait longer before doling out points in case something else more epic gets posted, but I don't want to delay people moving up the rankings where damn well deserved. AAAAAAAAGH!
at least it isn't money.
Then we were innocents. Then we were small like newgrown plants, and our small SF0 shoots were given a vote economy commensurate with our slow steady reach for the sun, though in time we found ourselves begging and hoping, needing something more to feed the tendrils as they became vines. The great expansion was fueled by the delirious freedom of inflation, we drank—became drunk with it, voting like lords, like sailors on liberty—and I count myself among the most drunken of drunken sailors and I can defend almost every last one of my votes. This Everyday LIfe regime is something faster, harder, more evolved. Like something out of the future. Like those crazy mutant sentinels Grant Morrison was writing about. This is terrifying and glittering like a creature from another dimension. Like the machine gods from Pinchbeck's DMT dementia dimension. It feeds and demands food. It is Shiva, the destroyer, the dancer on the floor of the kosmos and we are its handservants. For me? I intend to outfox this stuff. i intend to out everyday the terrifying power of everyday life. I will vote. Try and stop me. Vote. Look backwards, angels, and vote. Vote as much as you want. Vote with your hands. Or your mouths, your ten fingers and your tastebuds, your sinewy blessings and a pure pure heart black like the sweet edge of sheared off obsidian!
Vote by any means necessary.
I suggest the public post. or the tristero.
Dear Burn Unit,
Wow. Okay. Perhaps for you it is not at all like our first era. I would like to posit, that for me it is.
Love,
Inky
Dear Dancing Lights,
There were fewer of us then, but vote limits related to the levels we were at forced us to task- to not be audience members, in order to participate. If you are here, you have to be HERE. I don't vote on everything, and I've been told there is a certain weight that comes with my votes as a result (something I'm not entirely comfortable with). I vote on things that move me- I come back to things later, I read and re-read tasks. I make comments, I don't know. I just have a feeling that the first era (the era before eras) formed my style of voting.
Love,
Inky
i love the object annotations which people have such strong feelings towards.
This is beautiful.
I am sorry I cannot give it more points, and would like a feature for returning to a praxis you've voted on to add more points when you gain them.
You'll max out your vote-giving credit cards!
I was thinking the same thing Tom. I would like to give this one more point.
Thought points +1 ...
This is a truly inspirational praxis. What an amazing love letter. Not just to the tree, and not just for you, but for me, and all of SFØ and anybody who happens upon it. Rarely does the completion of a task inspire this kind of awe in me. I have fallen in løve. Thank you.
I will come back with my pockets full of points sometime later and then ...
this is lovely. "When my lover went away, I came to you alone and cried at your feet."
so lovely.
at the time, it was cold, and kind of sniffly, and full of despair. but sometimes things work out in the end.
i see your blushes and offer you huggles in return. this was like the grown up version of the giving tree for me.
It took some time that I earned the points, but finally I can give my 5pfull vote here. I like that (it feels abit like coming back later with more money to buy a pretty new something. Very nice, like shopping.)
...and now I have enough votes to not bankrupt myself on your penny! The saving, while annoying while low on votes, does wind up strangely satisfying.
… for knowing what place you refer to.
I hope that you might introduce me to the tree in question next time we are both there.
I will confess, there are several of them, and this was but the easiest one to write on.
But you do indeed know the general place of which I speak, and we should go for a walk sometime :)
Wow.