Skip, Author at Drylab 2023 https://drylab2023.net/author/cydnei/ Enacting the near future of water scarcity Mon, 31 Jul 2017 05:02:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 WHO ARE YOU? https://drylab2023.net/2017/07/31/you/ Mon, 31 Jul 2017 05:02:07 +0000 http://drylab2023.net/?p=2782 WHO ARE YOU   Well, I'm Skip. Who am I and how did I get here   I come from a huge family. A military family. No, I'm not a military brat, I just come from a long line of respect and dedication to the military. Pride. Honor.

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WHO ARE YOU

 

Well, I’m Skip.

Who am I and how did I get here

 

I come from a huge family. A military family. No, I’m not a military brat, I just come from a long line of respect and dedication to the military.

Pride. Honor. Respect.

Cousins, aunts, uncles. Photos of great grandparents and great great grandparents in uniform.

 

My grandfather, 82nd Airborne

My father, 82nd Airborne

My brother,

 

Family is important to me. The one we are given and the one we chose.

Pittsburgh is home, it is also comfortable. No one seems to leave.

8 years ago when I moved to the desert for school my family expected me to be gone for 3

 

 

intermittent conversations sporadic visits dissipating cousins developing

 

 

Time. Distance.

I grew older. I grew wiser. I grew.  .    .       .          .             .                .                 .                      apart

 

 

I love my family and I miss them dearly. But I also love who I have become.

Maybe I’m Skip because I like to skip town, or maybe I’m just a girl who likes to take walks and skip rocks.

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]]> TAKE A WALK https://drylab2023.net/2017/06/11/walk/ Sun, 11 Jun 2017 20:19:23 +0000 http://drylab2023.net/?p=2547 TAKE A WALK   I ventured out into the open desert with a couple of the girls. Walking to fill the time and to feel time. Not looking for anything in particular, just learning our space. We came across multiple dump piles. Some look like fallen structures. Others, garbage intentionally brought

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TAKE A WALK

 

I ventured out into the open desert with a couple of the girls.

Walking to fill the time and to feel time.

Not looking for anything in particular, just learning our space.

We came across multiple dump piles. Some look like fallen structures. Others, garbage intentionally brought to be discarded, and some, things that were loved but needed to be left behind.

We approached an arrangement of rusted cans, on the edge laid a composition of random scraps that really caught my eye, I snapped a photo.

 

 

This composition stayed in mind for quite awhile.

The arrangement. So simple, so abstract, so familiar.

I don’t like to draw, or at least that’s what I tell people. I like to doodle. It helps clear my mind, it helps me focus, it helps alleviate my stress.

I was looking through my things and there it was in one of my old stress doodles.

The peculiar resemblance made me smile.

 

 

 

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]]> TOGETHER https://drylab2023.net/2017/05/26/together/ Fri, 26 May 2017 07:19:28 +0000 http://drylab2023.net/?p=2130 me you she she he they them I us no longer together we work to distance makes things harder better faster stronger knots hold larger loads of dirty laundry hung out carefully constructed feelings fleeing away from home sick for a past tense that has not happened yet it’s so easy to convert

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me you she she he they them I us no longer together we work to distance makes things harder better faster stronger knots hold larger loads of dirty laundry hung out carefully constructed feelings fleeing away from home sick for a past tense that has not happened yet it’s so easy to convert back to old times are changing clothes piece by piece the puzzle comes together just to be broken alliteration acting as an accomplished achievement

TOGETHER

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]]> HEY SKIPPY https://drylab2023.net/2017/05/15/1426/ Mon, 15 May 2017 05:02:27 +0000 http://drylab2023.net/?p=1426 HEY, YOU! SKIPPY! We’ve arrived! Who are we you ask? I’ve stumbled across a group of women. Or should I say they stumbled upon me. Are they my group? I don’t know. But they’re my group for now. 6 women. 3 meals. 6 friends. 4 gallons. 0 showers. 1 man.

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HEY, YOU! SKIPPY!

We’ve arrived!

Who are we you ask?

I’ve stumbled across a group of women.

Or should I say they stumbled upon me.

Are they my group?

I don’t know.

But they’re my group for now.

6 women. 3 meals. 6 friends. 4 gallons. 0 showers. 1 man.

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