Friday, February 29, 2008

pink is fun

i cannot wait for the 2nd weekend of march to happen. after it, my constant craving to do something drastic with my hair will be answered. yay!

cat. it has to be vertical. what?!?!?! vertical. ahh!! emergency, mah can ya come?
she comes to the rescue, (thanks dear)
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then...

goofed around today after the requirement to be 'serious'

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today was good

me

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

yesterday and today, brother and sister

whoo.

february 25th and 26th together? one of the hardest combination.

anyways, here are a few pictures. dont feel like saying much but wanted to say hey.

wyns
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a short story. one night right after jc died. jahren cut out a heart for me and wrote, "momcat love uncle jc and pappa." i carried the heart around in my diary and on a different night, a soak in the tub dissolved these words. funny how the words have melted into a visual perfection of how it feels.

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last night was also good because i had the chance to take pictures of 'silent laughter' during their dressed rehearsal. there were some words involved (of course, you guys know words in any art forms has my knees reacting) and for some reason. i LOVE this one

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these wee hours,
sure do know them.

maybe a cartwheeling one next time around,
me

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

peace is planting new trees

hey..

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taken by jahren on our drive back to the cabin

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it was delicious riding the road because suddenly we were ebbflows in the road. i cant describe it in any other way :)

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what a testing shutterbug does

starting again in here. maybe this is something about controlling at least something. kaching, erase the slate and start anew in here. so, tonight me share what? it goes back to monday night and to right now (late wednesday night).

my weakness? necco valentine candy hearts because

they taste good
a pure sweet sin of sugar
you GET to taste words

we had fun checking out our words and at the same time mally and jah picked out their hearts.

"my girl" and "my baby"

it was a kick watching their interpretations
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haha! you are my baby! *jahren didnt like this*

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jahren's like, hey! thats my girl!! mally, she knows shes the older one.

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of course, when eitan is with us he gets to pick up new addictions-

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NECCO hearts! candy! yum! ohh! MMMMMMM!

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'love begins with you and me'
-aj

it was fun to find how every heart fit with the scene. rememeber osh? :) jahren pulled out "my pet" and mally's was "cool cat" of course, they got a huge kick out of it and osh usually sits with us. they put the candies down next to him and by the time i finally had the kids awayyyyyy from the chair. osh's hinting, "do you mind?"

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eitan's saying
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'tiger' behind him is jahren, opening up his backpack for homework

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mally, homeworking


with wyns busy, eitan goes to watch tom and jerry
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osh likes eitan too


monday wrapped up into a beautiful night and i was in such a good mood tuesday morning. on tuesday morning, i left CSD to go back home and realised. "hey, im in the mood to say hi to mom." turned back around to CSD and for the first time, saw a tree fall with my own eyes. im going to refrain from using too many words because its personal. (underline, italicize "personal").

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first moments, dodo dodo???

looked up to the sky,
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the main reason of why they were cut down
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(curbs)

these next pictures were taken by linda macdonald. thanks linds :)
you are NOT cutting this one down
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our vans were "bodyguards" for the other two trees behind us.


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was threatened that if we dont move, abby would call the police on us.


ticked off, they leave to other trees
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we discuss our next move. dodo? follow them or stay with this tree?

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little did we know that it's the only tree we could save. (it still stands)


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i hated the helplessness of watching the trees go

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him

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was it REALLY necessary to cut those down?

instead of looking into using solar powered lampposts, cutting them down is much faster
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gone
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barren
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the pine tree thats right by the building and bus stop? is now gone too.
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it will be a hot end of the school year for everyone and i bet energy used for ac will skyrocket

these two trees fell today, along with the tree by PPS building
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this is what it looks like on the left of everyone who drives past it almost everyday. no, not is, this WAS.
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this tree was the one we ran to stand with and the only one that still stands (blacklisted ones by abby)
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unsure of the treecutters' plans, i showed up there before anyone else could do anything
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...
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our plea to the people


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what does coexist mean to you?

maybe for some people (or, i hope not!, all of you) think im crazy for reacting deeply with the losses of our trees. i'll let you in on a secret, you will understand only if you listen and pay attention. my reaction, as radical and extreme as it was, is justified.

found this off a website and wanted to share this with you.

(dont know how to post a link in this, copy and pasting it would do :))

http://comunicadoresdeplantao.blogspot.com/2008/02/greenpeace-bag.html

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this is one of the most OBVIOUS truths. they need us to stop all this madness or we are shot to shit like the mayans.

peace means alot of things and tonight while reading with my wyns, a story hit home. "the peace book" by todd parr spoke about what peace is. peace is listening to different kinds of music, peace is growing gardens, peace is making new friends... etc etc etc

and peace is planting new trees.

...


until the next posting-
cat

the face behind the words