Asakiyume mita - on the one hand, earthly remains, house sparrows

From: heyes Date: March 31st, 2008 05:09 pm (UTC) (Link)

Thanks for the link to flash me!

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From: asakiyume Date: March 31st, 2008 05:16 pm (UTC) (Link)

You're welcome; you should definitely submit!

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From: heyes Date: March 31st, 2008 05:18 pm (UTC) (Link)

Yes ma'am.

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From: sartorias Date: March 31st, 2008 05:17 pm (UTC) (Link)

Better the right hand than, say, one's liver.

neat photos, and YIP on the writing!

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From: asakiyume Date: March 31st, 2008 05:24 pm (UTC) (Link)

Yes, it's in part the right hand that is preserving the liver :-D

thanks!

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From: tritoneclarinet Date: March 31st, 2008 05:19 pm (UTC) (Link)

I often feel that way in terms of the left hand, right hand. Of course, I'm left-handed, so it's gotten to the point where I have to embrace the insanity, or else go mad.

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From: asakiyume Date: March 31st, 2008 05:28 pm (UTC) (Link)

I know--unfair hand stereotyping, eh?

And you're at the point in life to embrace a little madness. If *I* embrace too much madness--well, it's just unseemly :-P (not to mention messy; all the clean-up! I stink at clean-up...)

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From: tritoneclarinet Date: March 31st, 2008 05:35 pm (UTC) (Link)

Yeah... Now if I could just get up the courage to jump right in, embrace the insanity, and not worry about the results for a bit.

Therein's more of the problem than anything else.

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From: asakiyume Date: March 31st, 2008 06:01 pm (UTC) (Link)

Wishing you luck :-D

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From: tritoneclarinet Date: March 31st, 2008 06:52 pm (UTC) (Link)

Thanks. I need it. :)

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From: cucumberseed Date: March 31st, 2008 05:24 pm (UTC) (Link)

Sometimes the ground swallows people up and leaves only random bits of their clothing.

Wait...

That's AWESOME. May I read it, sometime?

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From: asakiyume Date: March 31st, 2008 05:26 pm (UTC) (Link)

I'll send it--it's very short (since it was originally intended for Flash Me)--but you have to understand that I'm going to expand it, to answer all the questions and work out what happens after. (Of course, it will no longer be flash. I'm not sure I can write flash...)

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From: slobbit Date: March 31st, 2008 05:39 pm (UTC) (Link)

Awesome idea, with the swallowing.

I'm largely ambidextrous, so I'm always screwed up! Hemispheres can't decide who's in charge.

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From: asakiyume Date: March 31st, 2008 05:58 pm (UTC) (Link)

I have a very controlling left hemisphere (so, right hand). It keeps me on the straight and narrow, pretty much.

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From: marmota_monax Date: March 31st, 2008 05:51 pm (UTC) (Link)

I have no clue what your post is about.

The snow today made me want to do myself in. But then Pixie distracted me by doing something cute.

I once saw a dead guy float by in the Schuylkill River about 12 feet away from me. I was teaching a landscape painting class on the bank. It was spring melt-out. He'd been under the ice at least six months, and was not a pretty sight. When I called the police, they thought it was a prank call.

Please tell me those are gloves or leftover Halloween costume. I'm feeling fragile today.

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From: asakiyume Date: March 31st, 2008 05:57 pm (UTC) (Link)

Sorry! Yes, I'm sure they're just someone's throwaways.

I have never seen a dead body; I'm sure it's just awful, traumatic and sad both.

I was just imagining things--and not real deaths, at that, more like weird transformations or vanishings.

Sorry you're not feeling so great--glad Pixie was able to cheer you up.

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From: redcoast Date: March 31st, 2008 05:58 pm (UTC) (Link)

WTF is that picture?!? I am so freaked out right now.

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From: asakiyume Date: March 31st, 2008 05:59 pm (UTC) (Link)

Gloves buried in the long grass.

I promise I wouldn't post something genuinely horrible so cavalierly!

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From: redcoast Date: March 31st, 2008 06:00 pm (UTC) (Link)

There's not a hand in the gloves?!

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From: asakiyume Date: March 31st, 2008 06:02 pm (UTC) (Link)

No!

Oh cripes, do people think I'm posting pictures of a dead body?!

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From: redcoast Date: March 31st, 2008 06:03 pm (UTC) (Link)

I am from the south! For all I know there's always dead bodies defrosting up there!

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From: asakiyume Date: March 31st, 2008 06:06 pm (UTC) (Link)

It's true we're a murderous bunch, but normally we put the bodies six feet under--at least four feet; that's the frost line.

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From: redcoast Date: March 31st, 2008 06:10 pm (UTC) (Link)

But it's so cold. Perhaps people regularly give up and just die, then are covered by the snow.

Perhaps they were tourists.

Perhaps from the South.

Perhaps they didn't know how to drive with snowtires.

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From: asakiyume Date: March 31st, 2008 06:23 pm (UTC) (Link)

This reminds me of a folksong, "The Frozen Girl," that might have its roots in reality--about a girl who freezes in a sleigh on a way to a dance. Apparently that really happened at least once in the 1800s.

You had better only visit in the warmer months.

Edited at 2008-03-31 06:24 pm (UTC)

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From: a_soft_world Date: March 31st, 2008 07:14 pm (UTC) (Link)

lololol.

thank you for this post, and thank you, dear audience, for your responses.

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From: asakiyume Date: March 31st, 2008 10:53 pm (UTC) (Link)

ROTFL!!

You take the cake :D :D :D

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From: anushsh Date: March 31st, 2008 06:16 pm (UTC) (Link)

ah lovely.. thank you soo much. *HUGGGS*

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From: asakiyume Date: March 31st, 2008 06:20 pm (UTC) (Link)

((hugs)) back! If they make a nest, I'll let you know (if I myself notice)

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From: lizziebelle Date: March 31st, 2008 06:16 pm (UTC) (Link)

Aha! That explains the pair of boxers I saw on the ground yesterday on my walk. I almost took a picture of it, but it wasn't immediately apparent what it was. *g*

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From: asakiyume Date: March 31st, 2008 06:21 pm (UTC) (Link)

LOL!

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or a story, certainly :-D

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From: tritoneclarinet Date: March 31st, 2008 06:50 pm (UTC) (Link)

Also also... Your house swallow reminds me of the barn swallows that used to live in the pavilion of one of the rides I worked on at Lake Compounce. Beautiful birds, swooping and singing into and out of the water (this was at the rapids ride), and there would always be baby birds peeping out of their nests in the early summer.

One of the few things that I miss about working there.

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From: asakiyume Date: March 31st, 2008 06:57 pm (UTC) (Link)

Actually, what I saw were the more mundane house *sparrows*--but I agree with you, swallows are so beautiful to watch--they always make me happy!

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From: sovay Date: March 31st, 2008 08:32 pm (UTC) (Link)

However, yesterday I did see the only remains of some poor soul. I captured them on film

That's eerie. Nice.

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From: asakiyume Date: March 31st, 2008 11:34 pm (UTC) (Link)

The gloves were saying "and we alone remain to tell the tale..."

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From: shortiyergirl Date: April 2nd, 2008 07:20 am (UTC) (Link)

Those remains look a bit spooky.

Your left hand - right hand, rational-crazy all simultaneously reminded me of this old song by Abba called "Me and I" - implies that we're all a bit of Jekyll and a bit of Hyde :)

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From: asakiyume Date: April 2nd, 2008 05:10 pm (UTC) (Link)

I'm sure it's true in my case!

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From: mechaieh Date: April 8th, 2008 07:11 pm (UTC) (Link)

Which is just to say, a person can be rational, rational, rational and crazy, crazy, crazy simultaneously.

A-men.
*in constant lover's quarrel with self*

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From: asakiyume Date: April 8th, 2008 07:15 pm (UTC) (Link)

Yes, that is absolutely what it is.

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