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knowing both of them, since Birth

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like i know Emrie,  now.  From Birth.  

Alyssia is like some kind of Bower Bird.  She collects and places stuff.   not for a mate,  but for her Self.  All this stuff, infant  to toddler,  bright plastic colors.  Drives me nuts.  This bed,   no where really to put it,  but it was on Craig's List.  The mattress is the one i used in the car at the Fairgrounds.   

When you know someone   A Being,  from birth.  And then somehow they are  Women.   ?    How does that happen?  And i forgot to say.  

there in the foreground is a bird.   I'd set it there,  knowing i was going to go there to take that pic.  Dead bird,  its eye,  just a circle in its skull.  I took it to the Janet Chair over at the Young Manzanita.  Set it.  Life.  it's short and well,  short.

 

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20 responses to “knowing both of them, since Birth”

  1. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    ummm Different people definitely.

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  2. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    She’s trying to make a HOME. A nest. A safe place. I know how that is. Feels.
    And plastic is forever.

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    (((Grace))) there’s always plenty of time til there’s not

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  4. Michelle Slater Avatar
    Michelle Slater

    The photograph! Such contrasting elements…the pink plastic and the little bird. Without knowing context it kind of stands alone and one might think – anything.

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  5. jude Avatar
    jude

    at least it’s not in a landfill

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  6. Linda Avatar
    Linda

    I know that feeling of knowing someone from birth and seeing their life. It is so odd to see what they become and how they act. We usually can tell what motivates them but we are removed from their thoughts. I go through this daily with granddaughter that is in my life. A pink plastic bed? So different from our generation…

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    that’s her thinking. She’d never buy any of it new, but
    says that it exists, so should be used. There
    is a huge exchange that goes on through craig’s list
    these baby things exchange hands over and over and over
    she will post them when Emrie outgrows.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. different. But also, there’s not the same scenario.
    We had basements or attics to store things…that wooden crib
    and highchair, the bassinette. When you move now and then,
    things don’t go along so much.
    She got this with hope it would encourage Emrie to nap
    in it. Well, to nap period.
    She’ll take it to the new place now that there’s
    a new place to take it to.
    and it’s just baby stuff. Stuff that’s outgrown in months.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yeah, i stood and looked a long time

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    sorta

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i laugh…plastic is forever…that’s the truth.
    As i said to Jude below. These items get passed
    on and on through Craig’s List. I think this
    and it’s good crib mattress was $10. She’ll
    pass it along that way or Goodwill.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    fortunately, for me, it’s only baby stuff.
    and too, it’s a committed recycle.
    Also…thinking, there are next to Zero used wooden
    things like cribs, highchairs. There were many
    when i looked for them 40 years ago. Not any more.
    and if bought new are very expensive for items that
    only are used for months.

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  13. me-ml Avatar
    me-ml

    ((((Alyssia)))))

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  14. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    ?

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  15. Nanette Avatar
    Nanette

    Cute bed, very pink, very plastic! It’s incongruous though in your earthy space. I see it here, on Pay it Forward sites, the baby/toddler stuff moving along and around….it’s great.

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  16. dee Avatar
    dee

    We practice a lot of ‘curb to curb’ around here.Find a thing, try it out, tire of it, set it back out on the curb for someone else to try. But what a contrast between the dead bird and the pink toddler bed. Almost painful in its sharpness.

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. the shaprness

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    although neither are sharp

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. that’s how i feel about her too

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    in this World…things move and change and Go.
    it won’t be there long.

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