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"5:40 am"        click to view

Who knows where it all began, this page of word flurry.  It's fun to compare our passing of ZBOOK back and forth with each other over the years with the playful fun of girls passing notes between each other in class... and here is a page that is literally packed with actual notes to each other and other verses to the cosmos.  Jennifer and I, as this page reveals itself this week, enjoy how these morsels of expression bring us directly inside of a moment, dipping inside of our own stories, of which we may not know the date, but can recognize the FEEL, triggering our memories, like remembering bits of dreams... 

I don't know what day this journal entry turned verse is from (below), but I can picture the scenario perfectly ...a day in the life of Hemphill and cec roaming the streets of Isla Vista (IV), our potent lil' student town extending from our UCSB campus.
Hucking disc at dawn, 5:40am to be exact.  :)  Synergizing visions, getting into each other's heads like dancing synapes.  Discovering great little gems of spots all over IV and campus to commune in through drawing, tarot card reading, and other spontaneous rituals in honor of the magic of the moment.  The disc I speak of is of the frisbee variety, and huck it we O so love to do.  Back then we would aimFully stroll down the beachy streets of IV, Jennifer on one side, I on the other and we'd huck as we walked, back and forth, with one foot after the other in a full forward current, hardly missing a beat.  Of course there were cars parked at the street sides and so it became clear we were not only hucking disc, but also "saving cars" ...from their imminent risk of disc attack. For the joy of disc in not only in the huck but also in the thrill of the catch.  We became known as "car savers" as did our IV disc walking expeditions.  The only way to travel.
 

These (at right) are lyrics I wrote for a song I made with my band when I lived in
New York in 2001.  

 


These words (at left) I wrote the year after my accident during my last and best year at USCB (97-98). Ironically this was the year that all my PSLers, including Hemphill, were gone and graduated, but after my recoup time away, this last year was indeed my best personal year at SB.

"noticias"       click to view

This word flurry page reminds me of Z page "Noticias," however that one is more report and "5:40 am" is more rapport.  Baring no dates, the words of "5:40 am" are partial glimpses into stories, offering morsels of experiences.  (Just as I was last week with the word web in "Mapa," I am again reminded of Johnathan Harris' work)  It is fun to identify these lil' clues of our moments in time, each one holding a place from which we can enter the narrative of our lives.


∞ ceci
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happy new year Xman!

fotobooth w/Xman 2008-09
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Thank you ~J~ for your shout out to Xman in your post yesterday! Today, May 22, 2010, my lil' bro is 12 years alive! And it's been 12 years since I drew his baby face and the date of his birth on this page.  One month before this day was our first May 16th, 12 years ago.  And one month after this, was my graduation -commencement- from UCSB, 12 years ago.  So there was a commencement for both of us!  Happy new year Xman, your day of birth is a beautiful marker in our lives, and a day of IMMENSE joy and gratitude for me... I have a brother!  And a wOnderful friend. 

Thank you Xavier for ALL you teach me, for your fun & creativity & music(!), and for your kindness and warm heart.  You are a very special little man.

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Xman & me on his 9th Bday, 2007

your sister and homie 4ever

∞ cec

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Continued Noticias/ Noticias Continued

Here I am!  Today is Friday, May 21, 2010!!!  What a beautiful week of digging soil - seed preparations and nurturing - internally through external actions.  Today is full of Altadena, this whole coming weekend in fact.  In a few moments, I'm off to a hike with my beautiful daughter's 2nd grade class to Sturtevant Falls.  It's cloudy and chill in the air and I'm expecting water crossings to be a large part of the day.  I've got my balance on to help the kids do their best to keep dry... teachers orders.  I must be departing the hike early because I'm coaching circus arts to the middle schoolers at PWS later this afternoon.  We'll be juggling and unicycling, playing with diablos and river sticks... I think we'll have a laughter filled show of tricks to cap it off.

Saturday the 22nd will be a zoo morning, as we're off to a botanical tour in the am and then date night with hubby to the Spring Gala at the top of Lake in Altadena.  He'll be wearing a top hat and I know not what I'll be wearing yet, perhaps feathers - or actually, the theme is weaving a golden thread, so I think I have some cleopatra props around somewhere. 

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Have a great weekend, I hope yall get some fresh air.  Today I saw a huge cactus in full bloom, if I have a chance, I'll post a picture soon.   Spring is showing her colors, and releasing her magic into the ecosphere - get out there and suck it in!

Finally, shout out to Xavier... Happy Birthday!!
May is so full of birthdays and anniversarys and so much celebration - it must be a perfect month!   Thank you Zbook for continuing to open space for sharing these expressions of place and time... what a delight!
-Jennifer

Entwined

Notice This - when you write an announcement of some special moment, you are marking time in your soul. 

This spread of "noticias"  is fun to scroll around because some of the entries are simply check-ins in time and place, and others are notices of monumental happenings in our lives.  Births in particular are called out here with a reverant exclamation of their moment  in time.  Landings in places are also exploititive here!  The thing I know, about these entries on the page we this week gave tital to - often, they are meant to ellicit imaginations of setting.

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Dates and maps, maps and dates; both tools for organizing and planning travel through time and space.  In many ways, this spread of "noticias" is a map of dates.  It would be fun to make notes on a map to go along with this page and make a connect the dates image.  Let's Do it!

Have you ever shared a journal with someone else?  How about pages of drawing - like our friend Ben who is an avid creator of pictures with others.  Feel Free to share gratitude here - in 'comments' - to the person or the universe for the person(s) whom you love to collaborate with - Shout it out!

Thank you Ceci for reflecting and being reflected in these pages we continue to work in together - magic!  As the center image - of zbook - shows, we are knitted together through intense and long haired seeing of each other and ourselves via the other.  Thank you for your friendship and collaboration - we are entwined in these noticias of one anothers lives. - blessings and visions to you and me and our work eternal.-J.

week five>> "noticias"

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This just in: it's week five of ZBOOK 4EVER!  And here is this week's page~spread, we call it "noticias" which in spanish means "the news."  While documentation can be found all throughout ZBOOK, this page became a main haven for sharing some of our pinnacle moments throughout the years, and a few just in passing too.   A great sense of travel is felt here, as if each stop on this page was a conscious breath taken in the midst of great movement; an honorable and festive moment to acknowledgment the doorways that shaped our lives.  

There are so many reflections to explore here, and we will this week.  One right off the bat is the bottom left corner "happy May 16th" dated 1998.  This was our first May 16th, the one that practically proclaimed itself OUR day, which I just storied about in yesterday's post, yesterday May 16th, 2010.  Catch up on it there, and look for further stories about this special date as Zblog grows on.  We are celebrating May 16th all week!  

∞ ceci

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