Mihi by Kate Saturday
August 25th, 2010 1:26 AMMy people are scattered; my house is wide; my family is fluid; I am called Saturday. My culture doesn't have much in the way of identification rituals. Here's one:
"Hi, I'm Jim."
"My name's Clifford, nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you!"
Nice to meet you.
I understood "belong to" to mean "places you are responsible to" or "places that, if they called, you would come." Here are places that I belong to, either as a citizen (the museum and doorways and the alley) or as a foreign ally (the river, the woods.)
Doorways
If you've got one of these, you'll never be trapped! Thanks doorways! You're the best. I'll try to make more of you.
That Alley
In downtown Santa Cruz. If i were a religion, my shrine would be here. For a long time, i also belonged to Santa Cruz as a whole, but i'm not sure it would recognize me anymore.
The River of Stars
This place is awesome. I used to take people up here when i was getting to know them, but every time i went back, security was tighter, and most people didn't seem to like it as much as i do anyway. It's too dark to photograph so i took a picture with my hands.
The Museum Between the Walls
I've volunteered here for several years, and it never gets less cool. I hope to work here in some capacity my whole life. They don't allow photos, so another manograph. This is the hall of robots, leading up to the mezzanine. There's the reggae bots, and the tin woodsman, and a Leaping Lenny about to leap. He does it about once a day, and it always creeps me the heck out. This whole hall is pretty creepy actually, because you never know when they're going to move, or what they're going to do, or if they are sentient and malevolent. The reggaebots are ok.
The quartz woods on the east side of the Rockies
Where my parents lived for a couple years. Running around in the wild is the best thing! Stone marten and elk and bears! They no longer own the house, so this is a picture my cousin took of another part of the biome. Run and climb on the rocks!
Doors doors doors
The cone used to be a tree also.
River of stars
It gets really cold up here!
The hall of robots. Leaping Lenny. Euugh.
The trees climb up the mountain, and i climb up the trees. For the win!
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Wow, those manographs!
What kind of people wouldn´t worship you after the River of Stars??! geez
i know! people today! you offer them a river of stars, and they'd rather, i dunno, watch tv or something. what would please you, people? a river of tvs? a river of scantily clad dancing girls? actually that would be kind of neat.
well, Susy, you and me. river of stars. for keeps.
I would enjoy a river of TVs as well as a river of scantily clad dancing girls.
But if you're taking orders, I'll take a river of burritos.
Or a river of shadows. Or a river of bicycles.
a river of bicycles is bruisy. actually, you might come up the 3rd Friday of any month for Bike Party. that is a river of bikes.
a river or burritos sounds delicious. and the fish that live in that river are like food squared. alright, done. asada or fresca?
Carnitas preferably. Although, I'm not picky.
There's a river of bikes here every Friday called Midnight Ridazz.
Or if we want to stick to the river theme I'll take some kind of grilled ahi burrito, or if you can figure out how a ceviche burrito would work, I'd be down for that too.
Very nice. That was well thought out. I really want to go to the museum now.
Also, you give me a new respect for doorways. :)