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the Thread.   pulses.      She wanted to hear it all over again.   Who is whose mother.   Who is the baby of who.   When was that.  The order of it all.    while she was writing on her watering can     her name.   First     Middle   Last     N for nick names.

Emrie Grace Jimenez     N:   Emy   Em    M      How is it,  that Last names happen.    

 


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this one floated to the surface.    as she used to say     "from a long day ago".

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14 responses to “still”

  1. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Ooh, she is such a doll baby (and I don’t use that term of endearment easily)…her expression deep, questioning, looking for the connection she feels, looking to you?
    “From a long day ago” I just love how they express. I still think of Julian and his day/night and when I see his today face, it is such a surprise!
    I remember recording all of my family in my school report card book. Listing numbered daddies and half/step and regular (nothing added) siblings…counting them all up – trying to organize it all in my mind. Never thought of using a watering can though. Gotta love this gal! 😍

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  2. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    I love that she listed her full names; including nicknames; important to know and equally important to know how names came to be chosen; first, middle, last, nicknames, the meaning of each. She is claiming herself, in the asking, in the writing on the watering can…

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  3. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    we sat around the table to celebrate Don’s 70th last night and I asked everyone to write their names so I could stitch them into a memory … nicknames came up … how we often call the grands by their first initials … harder to do with their cousins, who both have the same first initial, so the older of the two “wins” … and then we learned what their friends’ nicknames are for them, which was fascinating!

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  4. Yvette Avatar
    Yvette

    I want to hug them 🍀☘️🌺🌸🌷

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  5. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Liz, I love that you stitch memories!

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  6. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    grace, the picture says a thousand words, and the blank lines say so much more.

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i learn so much from her….
    we say it’s the other way around, but here
    i learn so much from her

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes…exactly. Claiming.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    naming the given then the self
    so Telling

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    their hug back would HEAL the world

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    those lines ..from Typepad don’t know how they happened

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  12. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Oh gosh…reading your words Marti…a very, very faint memory floats around… I think my daughter did something like this, with all of her nicknames – maybe signing them all on a card? The memory barely there. I had forgotten that, even when looking at Emrie’s work. Huh.

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  13. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Reading the other’s comments…so many more thoughts about naming and nicknames come up for me…so many stories. I could write a book!

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  14. Deb Avatar
    Deb

    Those dear faces.The trust in those eyes.

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