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Happy May 16th hemphill! I love u lady.
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16 May 2010
Happy May 16th !
This is the day ZBOOK was made. Well... that's how the myth will likely go down in history that is. :) ZBOOK was of course made over a 5,110 day period and was actually birthed in the month of November... However, it is May 16th that has become the day of hemphill and cec, aka Jennifer and Ceci, our day of celebration and gratitude for our creative partnership, our mayhem, and our kinship. It's our "holiday" and very much like a "birthday" for us and, since ZBOOK is a direct expression of all that is ~J~ and ~C~, figuratively it could be said that if ZBOOK had a "day" it would also be May 16th.
In the late spring of 1998, ~J~ and I had an especially amAzing special weekend. ~J was visiting me at UCSB. She had recently come back from traveling for months solo around the globe (badass) and I was finishing my last year of school. My honors art studio was at Harder Stadium and we were hangin' there quite a bit. That weekend happened to be SB's annual "Estravaganza" festival which takes place at the stadium. In fact, I just looked it up and today is the 30th anniversary of Estravaganza! Nice. Well, we found ourselves with all this music and color and lively people all around and seamlessly flowed right in there, making the field our own dance floor, every person we encountered a fellow reveler, and every sight, sound and flavor a lucid experience of reverence. The festival, a ton load of frisbee disc huckin', and other Isla Vista antics made for one spectacular time that we knew we'd never forget. We decided right there and then that May 16th was our day, for Life.
Happy May 16th hemphill! I love u lady.
∞ ceci
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Happy May 16th hemphill! I love u lady.
∞ ceci
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May 16th, 2010 reflection...
ReplyDeleteCec left me a phone message in the am wishing me a Happy May 16th and letting me know she was celebrating and dancing with me - a spirit uniter.
She was unaware that I would be engaging in sessions of jumper bouncing with my youngins as we celebrated an impromptu birthday bbq bash for Jack - Tony's mom and sister and brother and a truck load of auntie and uncles (good friends) with their wild ones in tow, helped us charge the 16th with good food and fun romping in the airy spaceship.
Tony's mom, unprompted as the official photo taker, gleefully hollered out "say Tequila" with each shot - at least to the adults. I willingly complied as inwardly I giggled with delight at the unconscious homage to May 16th festivities.
The twilight bounce with Tony, Hallie, Jack and I was so full of laughter and heavy breathing, we all slept super sound through the night.
- love ya, J.
Wow, this is so strange, I just re-read this post because I wanted to comment, and it was like I had never finished it all the way in my prior reading - crazy sensation...
ReplyDeleteI love the images I hold of that day in Harder Stadium - dancing, drawing, inspiring, discing, communing; but wait, did you leave out the hornitos shooters... is that possible?... or was that another day? hah hah hah hah hah!
~J~
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ReplyDeleteI am very grateful to your May 16th post in this hour...
ReplyDeleteIt is helping me to reassess a communication I was coming toward commenting... a more inclusive reassessment...
So, in this post, you have used many namings of both I and you... I like that, because it allows a fluidity to live in me with the nomen of J.
I was feeling a bit overused as J., starting to have a sense in myself that perhaps it is more like a signature (which is how I often use it) versus a calling name - though I do like it also... thus, please hear my jabble that i am feeling slightly confused in continuing to be called hear J. all the time
thanks,
~J~
I hear you, here dear Jennifer Hemphill Gould, my cherished friend. Strangely enough, I am quite unfamiliar with calling you by your name, Jennifer. I, as with many of our ol' homies from school, have relished calling you by your incredible and wonderful maiden name of Hemphill, for practically as long as ZBOOK has walked this earth. I have a long standing relationship and thus a heartfelt affection for your maiden name, which is as much your name to me as my name of cec is to you. As we began to embark on a road of public arena with ZBOOK 4EVER, I tried out a route where I would call you by how you chose to identify yourself in here: J. I hear you that, rather than a name, it is a signature. Okay love. My jabble now is that it is your name of Hemphill that flows so organically from my lips and my pen and my fingers as I type. I will however, if it is your wish, refer to you as Jennifer in our blogging (with dashes of Hemphill here and there when I just can't help it! :) . Of course I am aware that Jennifer is in fact your name, given and chosen for the world to know you by! And I love it because it's you. And I also love your other birth name, which I have celebrated since we were young pups. I love you Hemphill.
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Hi Ceci, Jennifer,
ReplyDeleteI really love the atmosphere of this page, with the dancer in this mystical cosmic, alien world, dancing so gracefully, and with quite force as well.
The story in it is wonderful-
Thank you Shakunetsu for sharing your feel on Z page :)
ReplyDeletelove your blog!
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