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21/08/08.
live your life in full color.
it's juicy living! this week brought to you in tandem with my girl margo5, better known as margauxv. she's pulling sark cards for us to interpret. kinda like tarot, only juicier. also playing along this week is 365bunnies, one of my other favorite flickr folks.
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"i have the choice of being constantly active & happy,
or introspectively passive & sad.
or i can go mad by ricocheting in between."
- Sylvia Plath.
my dad owns an ebay store.
he was auctioning this camera for a widow.
it didn't sell.
she didn't want to go through the pain of picking it up,
told dad to donate it.
he gave it to me.
i felt odd, holding something that belongs to someone dead.
felt like i was taking something that didn't belong to me,
like stealing.
looking through the box, i found his name.
John Peter Carson.
his name was John & i started to talk to him.
i thanked him for the camera. told him i'd treat it well.
that i'd take lovely photos with it, and i'd even dedicate some to him if that's okay.
i felt better after that.
his name is John, and this is his camera.
i'm sitting here quoting a girl who is dead,
with a camera from John who is dead.
and nothing of me is original anymore.
i have taken & tonight i feel strange.