Less tarnished...less worried.....
..."These old holiday photographs are the kind new lovers are always shown. Somehow it is more vital than almost anything else, in those first early weeks, to give the new person some glimmer of how full of life you once were. Here, you are saying, without using words, this was my special self, this was me, less tarnished, less worried, more hopeful, infinitely observant. See, how uncovered by fat my bones once were? Family albums are pilfered. You want to turn back into the photograph child you proffer to your new lover, hoping that in this way evidence of old relationship wounds and wrinkles coursing like some kind of land erosion across parts of your face will be miraculously waived. You want the new lover to see the beautiful lines in your lips before those very lines began to cross into the skin under your nose and mouth.
I warm immediately to people with strong childhood memories. On the other hand if people tell me they can remember nothing of their childhood or its holidays I look at them carefully, wondering what reason have they to lie. I love to meet women and men who can recollect crying their eyes out on the car journey home from holidays."
--- Excerpt, "Paradise is a place" by Gillian Mears
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Chinese New Year 2005 came and went, whoosh, just like that. But the beguiling sweet mandarin tanginess of the celebrations stayed with me.
I had a front seat, stage-side view of Singapore's only rock concert on Chu Yi (1st Day of the Chinese Lunar New Year), courtesy, of my jamming cousins, QW and JW.
They had matching red t-shirts on.
Kurt, as in the Cobain who shot himself, would've frowned. But if they wore black tees, my grandma would've frowned. And if grandma frowns on Chu Yi, then everyone down the family tree will probably have to join her in the same expression when they come to visit...
So, sorry Kurt. Red tees it's got to be.
Other than red, there was pink. This other cute little sweetie-cutie-strawberry-pie of a cousin taught me how to say, "TEEEEger!! Won't YOu ever STOOPPP BOUNCING~!!??" with loads of dramatic zest. The little dynamo displayed surprisingly early camera savviness, and a thespian flair.
QQ automatically says "Cheeeze..." and holds up 2 fingers whenever she sees a camera on her.
..........
Stay pink, go wink.
; )
Here's to a less tarnished, less worried year for us all.
posted by audaciousjoy @ 1:24 AM
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