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The 4th annual Missed Connections event took place on Valentine’s Day (Thursday) 2014 at the New York Transit Museum. Guests got to spin Craigslist postings about those “lost subway love matches” into poetry and music. There was also art, local Brooklyn tastings, valentine-making, and a photo booth. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin
A continuation of my series.
I am continuing to explore the nature of self and environment, of cause and effect. Grasping, reaching for connections is something that doesn't -- and shouldn't -- end.
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I rescued a very pregnant dog from starvation, found homes for all 7 of her babies and gave her a forvever home with me. This photo was taken the day after the puppies were born.
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Mega-elaboration - A chuch, graveyard, and trailer (home) are located a short distance from my house. Since I moved in (2004), I had seen various dogs at the trailer and around the church and graveyard. Once, I saw a litter of older puppies running in an adjacent field, and one of these pups stuck. When I first saw it, I thought it looked just like a little bear cub...solid black and tailless. Months later, I spotted another dog hanging out with the bear cub. As I drove by one day, I noticed that the newer dog was looking a little bony, which made me wonder if bear dog was skinny underneath her bear fur. The cemetery was spread out, and so the following day I pulled up with a bag of dog food and poured a ton out at the furthest side of the lot. The pair of them ate like fiends and my heart sank to think that after about a year, I'd never noticed that the little bear dog was so hungry...couldn't see her ribs under all that fur, like I could the newer short-haired dog.
Every day after I stopped to feed the dogs. Two months went by and I had developed a rapport with bear dog...petting it when it came to eat. It was always so sweet and its inch-long tail would wag and wag. One day soon when I stopped to feed the pair, bear dog rolled over onto its back, and I realized it was a she-bear, and was also pregnant.
The next day I stopped at the trailer. I asked the man who lived there if I could take his dog and pay to get it spayed. His response was that he didn't have any dogs. I pointed to the two dogs sitting at the bottom of his front steps where I stood and said "These aren't your dogs?"...and again his response was the very same. "So you wouldn't mind if I took her and got her spayed?" He said he didn't mind at all.
Confused...but great! The appointment was for a couple days later. The evening before on my way home when I stopped to feed the dogs, I slipped a leash, a la Cesar Milan style, onto beardog and walked her to my car and put her in the back seat. That evening, after the dogknapping, she ate phat and got lots and lots of pets.
At 7am the next morning, the vet came out of the exam room to tell me that bear dog was due to give birth at any moment now. I'd only been around a pregnant cat once before...never any other pregnant animal or human, so I had no idea she was so far along.
My mom agreed to foster bear dog for 3 weeks, and the above photo was taken at her house. She named the dog Liberty (Libby for short) and took 5-star care of her and her 7 babies for those 3 weeks, before they came to live with me. As a dog lover, I'm glad I got the experience of raising 7 poop machines, although it was CERTAINLY a ton of work. Around week 5, Chuck and I had a photo session with the puppies, and I made color flyers with the puppy info that Chuck hung up on campus, and that I used for an online ad. Within 4 days of the ad, all the puppies had homes. It was incredible. The people that adopted the puppies seemed really warm and loving, and they all spent about 30 minutes at the house, getting to know the puppies. The last couple that came adopted the final 2 puppies together, which meant I didn't have to keep the last pup, nor did I keep King Kong...the giant male who was over twice the size of all his siblings, and that I had fallen in love with. :)
Libby has continued living out the 5-star doggie life with us and she will for the rest of her life. I continue to stop every day and feed the other dog, who still lives at the trailer. If it's raining, the dog gets McD's chicken sandwiches. I've certainly fattened it up through two winters, though a couple weeks ago, I noticed it was definitely a female dog as well, which means I want to get it spayed too...
This other dog looks like a pit mix...its never come close enough to me to touch, although it will run to me when I slow down to throw sandwiches out from my car, and she watches me from the trailer's driveway, tail wagging, when I put out dry kibble. I have a rather calm/submissive pack of dogs already...7...all rescues, with a grumpy old female heeler and a rehabilitated Chow and I don't want to mess up the flow with a pit I don't know. It might turn out to be the most gentle dogs I've ever known, but without experience owning that breed, I don't feel comfortable. I also don't feel comfortable taking it to the shelter. I just won't. I'm not sure what to do. And I know it's not my "problem", but I pass it every day, so I want to help. Maybe I should make another flyer. (Supremely low-res upload of the puppy flyer.) :)
The 4th annual Missed Connections event took place on Valentine’s Day (Thursday) 2014 at the New York Transit Museum. Guests got to spin Craigslist postings about those “lost subway love matches” into poetry and music. There was also art, local Brooklyn tastings, valentine-making, and a photo booth. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin
A Braid Knot with 9 strands, 24 sides and a length 3 units, radius of 1 unit and width of 1 unit.
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The 4th annual Missed Connections event took place on Valentine’s Day (Thursday) 2014 at the New York Transit Museum. Guests got to spin Craigslist postings about those “lost subway love matches” into poetry and music. There was also art, local Brooklyn tastings, valentine-making, and a photo booth. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin
The 4th annual Missed Connections event took place on Valentine’s Day (Thursday) 2014 at the New York Transit Museum. Guests got to spin Craigslist postings about those “lost subway love matches” into poetry and music. There was also art, local Brooklyn tastings, valentine-making, and a photo booth. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin
The 4th annual Missed Connections event took place on Valentine’s Day (Thursday) 2014 at the New York Transit Museum. Guests got to spin Craigslist postings about those “lost subway love matches” into poetry and music. There was also art, local Brooklyn tastings, valentine-making, and a photo booth. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin
The 4th annual Missed Connections event took place on Valentine’s Day (Thursday) 2014 at the New York Transit Museum. Guests got to spin Craigslist postings about those “lost subway love matches” into poetry and music. There was also art, local Brooklyn tastings, valentine-making, and a photo booth. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin
“The best mirror is an old friend.”
-Peter Nivio Zarlenga
This was for a conenction photo challenge. This mirror connection thing was the first thing to come into my mind when this challenge was announced. It is impossible to look into a mirror and see someone else, but the idea of looking into one and seeing someone else, someone you've longed to see for a very long time. It's a very deep connection I do belive so. The expressions on the people here make the picture I think, they're so solemn, serious, likethey're looking into each others eyes and they can;t turn away.
I pondered this and couldn't title the shot. As I looked I saw the fence post bound by chain. It was also connected to another post wrapped with a crown of thorns. Unlike the wire that is sagging I need to be solidly connected to my Lord like the iron bar. No matter what chain binds me I can be set free.
Sadly my french connection is only a dress as I would have loved to have been a wealthy sophisticated french gitl living in Paris and spending ;The Season' in Cannes sunning myself and drinking champagne on millionaire's yacts, then in the winter off to St Moritz or Davos for the cheese fondue and skiing. But all is not lost as I live a rich and colourful life even if much of it is in my imagination and thankfully being Jojo too takes me closer to it as if almost half way there. I do like the idea that we can do anything if we put our minds to it but I don't think just closing my eyes and opening them again will quite make it happen. Sometimes though it is nice when others confirm it too even if it a kind of flattery but it'ss always good to know I am not living a total fantasy I really have got this far.
The 4th annual Missed Connections event took place on Valentine’s Day (Thursday) 2014 at the New York Transit Museum. Guests got to spin Craigslist postings about those “lost subway love matches” into poetry and music. There was also art, local Brooklyn tastings, valentine-making, and a photo booth. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin
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PERSONAL FUN FACT written by my sister: I got my first one of these outfits with one of my very favorite Katie dolls. So, even though it's seasonal, it got used a lot. (Actually, several of my earliest Katie's had holiday/winter clothing.) This wasn't as wintry as some of my other holiday fashions for Katie. I like how the dress is mostly orange. It's a unique color. Also, the way there are short lines instead of full length stripes is really different. We actually have a Kelsey dress made from the same material, which I actually got Shelly for Christmas one year, so it's funny that Shelly got me Katie in this print and the Kelsey with multiple fashions I got her had a dress in the same print! The cut of the dress is unusual as well--it's got a boxy look. The orange flats are really great. Orange isn't a color you see on doll shoes every day. The sweater is nice too--a very soft material. Actually, both clothing pieces are quite durable and nice quality. I used the sweater over some of my other Katie clothes--but mostly with this dress. It was a good dress for dinner, for a holiday party--but also simple enough for Katie to wear on a fairly average day (well, Katie was a diva, so her idea of "casual" was a little askew). I like how the sweater has gold lame and the headband is the same fabric. It is one of my Katie outfits I can rattle off with accuracy instantly--which doll came in it, when I got it, what it came with, etc. It's definitely one of my most treasured pieces in my collection. When we were kids, we stored our dolls nude most of the time, unless they were regular cast members. Secondary cast members often wore random clothes that weren't absolute favorites and kept them on almost all the time so they were dressed and ready to go in an instant, but not wearing something we might need for a main cast member. Holly (the Katie that came in this) phased in and out of my secondary cast a lot, so she was stored naked most of the time. Now, however, we store our dolls in their original attire if we have it--so Holly is wearing this. However, I have actually borrowed it from her for photos and videos---and also taken her out of it so she could wear something more casual/less festive to partake in photos and videos. The items pictured here actually came off Holly's newer, spiffier twin, who my sister also found me--but in 2024! I completely forgot that Holly was one of the girls who came with these cheap, transparent undies. I might actually still have Holly's--I have a bag of cheapo Katie undies that I threw together because I didn't know which dolls were supposed to have them. I also didn't have my childhood bracelet anymore. I told Shelly she could deconstruct this one for crafting after taking the photo because our dolls can actually use the beads! Which would be really cool and special. It feels a tad sacrilegious (I actually save Katie's plastic combs when they come with them because I'm that into Katie), but I wouldn't wear this now. (I don't like wearing bracelets because they get in my way. So, I think our dollies will get more use out of the beads!
The 4th annual Missed Connections event took place on Valentine’s Day (Thursday) 2014 at the New York Transit Museum. Guests got to spin Craigslist postings about those “lost subway love matches” into poetry and music. There was also art, local Brooklyn tastings, valentine-making, and a photo booth. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin
Just some fiber optics cables at my office.
Not used anymore, but hopefully good enough to share with my Flickrfriends.
Happy Valentine's Day everyone!
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Another pic from my glow stick photoshoot in my bathroom, I'm excited to do it again, I'm getting more ideas for it :]
enjoy your day, all you single people are my Valentine! <3 <3