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“Greatly in need of comfort and support, I said to Elder Corelli, “I don’t suppose you’d let me hug you?”
He shook his head. “You know I can’t, Sister Welker.”
I stared at my hands, tangled in my lap. “Can I hold onto your shirt sleeve, then?”
He nodded, so I grasped the edge of his sleeve between my thumb and forefinger and held it, trying to pretend it was a form of human contact that offered any solace.
In any event, it was all I had.
”
Excerpt from Holly Welker’s Modern Love - A Mormon Missionary in Taiwan
Just got back from the Anthropology Department’s talk by Roxana Waterson loosely based on her book Paths and Rivers : Sa’dan Toraja Society in Transformation. Very worthwhile albeit short talk, and afterwards she was gracious enough to answer our burning questions. Memorable points:
Ambivalence, on the difference between the roles of women and men - being equal / same but different, OR, of being different but basically the same. And I thought ambivalence usually meant a love / hate relationship. Conceptually significant.
Cross-dressing priests, the idea of which when one is in touch with both the feminine and masculine within oneself, the interaction with the deities will be more significant since the deities themselves are believed to be hermaphrodites. Also of the priest who went to the haj pilgrimiage twice, once as a man and once as a woman.
Toraja roof eaves, that of the extended roof ridge curving upwards. This pattern is repeated throughout the Austronesian region, and was built using various techniques. This meant the overall aesthetics was symbolically significant, and was not derived from a constructional constraint (say, like the Chinese bracket system). Also, I love that her blurred hands in the photo above seems to trace the shape of the roof eaves.
Since Chernobyl, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger has collected and painted morphologically disturbed insects, which she finds in the fallout areas of Chernobyl as well as near nuclear installations.
These pillows are made from recycled suit-jackets. Some will have buttons, some will have a pocket, all retro awesome tweeds, herringbones and checks.. I have lots to choose from and can do all letters.
Makes we want to learn how to sew even more.
Morton Roberts, Storyville and Jazz scenes for LIFE Magazine, 1958 (link)
“It was pretty, all right, to see those funerals. A man belong to one of the organizations and die, his widow say ‘let him have music’ so the organization hire a marching band. On the way out to the cemetery, before they bury the man, the band played most all hymns, like ‘Just A Closer Walk with Thee.’ But once they left there, then they started to swing. They wouldn’t be 25 feet from the graveyard before they hit ‘Didn’t He Ramble.’ Yes sir, he rambled, he rambled. Then they’d play ‘Sing On,’ or ‘The Saints.’ The kids would come a runnin’, wanting to jump. So they’d form that second line beside the band. Everybody else would be bouncing along too, some with baskets of flowers, some with those sharp lookin’ umbrellas. I liked to see that. Finally the band would get to the lodge hall and break up and that was always the end of a perfect death.’
See also: Wynton Marsalis plays ‘2nd Line’ live + History of the Second Line in New Orleans
Also also: Monkmus animated video featuring Second Line for Kid Koala’s amazing version of ‘Basin Street Blues’
Also more: Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club at 100
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Morton Roberts, Storyville and Jazz scenes for LIFE Magazine, 1958 (link)
“The Holy Rollers [says Kid Ory, the famous trombonist] they’d sing and clap their hands to keep the beat. They’d have a piano and sometimes drums and they used to ask a trumpet player or a trombone player to play with them while they sang. Some of the Baptists would too. The first jazz bands got most of their tunes from the church but they’d put their own feeling to it, like ‘The Saints’ or ‘Make Me a Pallet on the Floor.’](http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kr1ba7CpS01qz8guyo1_500.png)
Morton Roberts, Storyville and Jazz scenes for LIFE Magazine, 1958 (link)
“The Holy Rollers [says Kid Ory, the famous trombonist] they’d sing and clap their hands to keep the beat. They’d have a piano and sometimes drums and they used to ask a trumpet player or a trombone player to play with them while they sang. Some of the Baptists would too. The first jazz bands got most of their tunes from the church but they’d put their own feeling to it, like ‘The Saints’ or ‘Make Me a Pallet on the Floor.’
Sunday, April 26, 2009
– m4w – 24
You wore an awesome color changing dress to the BBQ on Skillman Ave in Williamsburg, but someone spilled wine on it.
You left too quickly…I’d like to see you again.
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