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January 2009 
What separates you from others?
Posted on Apr 20th, 2008
by 
Farland
Farland
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for April 20, 2008:
I loved taking microbiology. It opened up the world of permeability and mutability, of motion and flux. My eyes and porous skin and lungs and veins are fluxing in and out with my environment. I am thin skinned and uninsulated. I like how it is to strain all that is out there through my body and see how everything moves out and away like breathing. When I stay too long in certain dying places I can feel things shriveling up inside I can feel a turning into concrete or plastic dolly. I separate myself from others when I need to be still I use distance and open space as compensation for insulation or thicker skin. I would love to have fur or feathers. It wouldn't change the flowing through but it would make me so happy.
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I think of that all the time, the molecular flux and flow, the way we are all a stew sharing chunks and bits, and ever seeming to believe the illusion of autonomy….. we who are made of dinosaur bones, and who breath the oxygen of Jesus and Buddha….and all the others who came before…… I will let you wear my faux bear coat when you visit me… I will post a picture….. alas, not much in the way of feathers, just a boa perhaps…love Jane
I love this photograph. I would love to have a gigantic print of this on my wall. Did you know ginormous got put in the dictionary? Who says that?
Maybe they needed new words to describe the SUV's and houses around here.
I bring my camera everywhere even into the bathrooms at the rest stop at the top of Vail Pass where this scene presented itself on our way to Boulder.
Jane I could bring my ancient reindeer skin coat and bear fur gloves but really I want the fur to be growing out of my follicles. And that would surely separate me from the nakeds.
I have been watching Rosie in these hot snowy days, such a thick fur coat, how she wriggles herself into snowbanks to cool down….. she is not a great swimmer either because of the weight of the waterlogged fur….. It is interesting about hair and fur…….about who wants to be hairy and who wants to be smooth…. Have you ever seen the Guiness World Book of Records for the hairiest man.?
No I haven't is it on line do you think? I'll look! Sticky and Gnomi have sleek coats without much under addition in the winter. Sort of beaver-lite.