Writing Fancy

"Conversation At The Supper Table"

2012-01-25T12:38:00.000-08:00

Mable, Betty, Coretta, Joetta, Stella

They are talking about a million things. They all have aglass of wine. They need a glass of wine. It’s not a really good shot. I’veseen this kind of mixture before. Theylook concerned. Nobody’s happy, nor down. They are trying to take it all in.she realizes what they are talking about. A little complicated. It’s a good picture. Definitely some kind offamily party it might be something startling since everyone is looking at thelittle boy, Bobby. He’s getting attention from every direction. Somebody hassomething strange. The daddy, Paul, looks real interesting. Real concerned about what the little boy hassaid. That’s a picture. You can’t tell what they are doing. Those two and the oldman look surprised. How do you eat like this? (Do you think there is aproblem?) I guess so. I know something is wrong. It could be as well as one orthe other. All I know is I’m hungry. (what do you think the parents arethinking?) It depends on what kind of parents they are. Sometimes they gethostile, and sometimes not. They’re all concerned about the same thing. Paul isstaring at Bobby from across the table. They seem very attentive. They seemlike a good set of parents. They like to interrupt the little one, he talks alot. They have to take time to vent. They have to take time to listen to eachother. I don’t know which one is the listener. Why is it important to be a goodlistener? You might miss something. Ifthere’s a real problem, you find out about it and do something. Families havedifferent arrangements, and this family’s arrangement is a good one.

Before and After- January 18, 2012

2012-01-19T16:50:00.000-08:00

Barbara, Evonne, Stella, Alice, June, Margaret

"Before and After"

What would happen if one of the country folk ended up in the city? and the opposite?

Joe would go crazy. Joe has a wife and he has children, theyhave to be 16 to work all those tools. Depending on what the tools are. Hischildren are taking care of the farm while he’s in the city. Yeah he’ll gocrazy. He won’t like New York. I don’t think the average farmer will want to goto New York. He’ll get lost, it’s too busy, too noisy, and there’s no freedom.I mean there’s too many objects. No, I wouldn’t want to be in New York for loveor money. Go to the empire state building. He will probably do it alone butthere’s always someone in the elevator with you. He’ll get friendly. Its not easy to get friendly with people innew York. Tell him to go jump off the Eifeltower. He can’t make friends because everybody’s in a hurry and they’re notinterested in giving him information because they are all interested in goinghome or going to get something to eat. If I were him I’d run like mad to getaway. Joe is startled by the city. He’s going to see one of the shows. He hasto adapt. Joe's wife has decided to come along. She’s use to all the country stuff. It’s going to bedifferent for me. She’s used to having a garden, doing things at home andalways doing everything herself. She has to find new things to do in the city.They will probably have problems. It’s completely different there. I don’t think they will be in danger. I don’tthink they will stay happy because they are not used to that lifestyle and theydon’t like all the people. I think theywill argue about staying in New York but eventually go back to the country. Alot depends on their age. They will stay married for awhile at least. There area lot of things to do in the country If he wants to be busy, but if he doesn’t wantto stay busy he won’t and they’ll divorce. It is their own business. They willstay married. They will pretend like New York never happened. The farm is amess when they get back since the children were taking care of it. They are 16so they better be on alert. The plants are overgrown and there are weeds. Theanimals are ok, the kids kept fed them and kept them alive, like you would withyour dog. Maybe they will get into a little bit of trouble but not a lot oftrouble. If it were me they’d be in a lot of trouble. They’d be in trouble withme, I can assure you of that. The parents will say go out there and cut theweeds and clean this place up. They didn’t have any parties. They don’t knowwhat a wild party is. Everybody lived happily ever after, to each is own.

What if we would bring one of the city people and put themin the country? Some would go crazy. Some would enjoy the outdoors. They’d havefree roaming. They’d have the freedom they don’t have in the city. No, I don’tthink they’d like the country. There’s too much space and not enough people.The New Yorker would be thinking get me out of here. He’s just going to walkaround and look at the trees and the countryside. Not have to deal with thetraffic and the noise. They are going to farm. He’s going to do the same thing quite different. Everybody’s going to go back to what they were used to andsee no change.

They All Settled It, Didn't They?

2012-01-09T18:55:00.000-08:00

(Same photo, different story.)

A big play, and they are getting started on a production. They are discussing how to get started. They look different on the top, on the window panes. The lady with her hands on her face is just sitting there, just sitting there. She’s not in charge of the play, but she is thinking about what comes next. Now she is in charge. She is giving instructions about which way the place should run. The play is a friendly one, it is supposed to be half happy and half sad. The bad guys are in the middle. The one with the beard is named John, and the guy nearby is Alfred. The hero is the blurry one in the middle, a man called Jane. The hero is confronting the bad guys in the middle, and it is blurry because he is moving so fast, with such swiftness. [Will there be a fight?] No. The bad guys in the white, they make trouble. That’s a pair, these two. They work together. He’s getting ready to his other friend. They are having a talk. They will have to bring somebody else in it. They can bring this one, Claire, in it. Claire will get in trouble with Alfred, because she falls in love with John. Then the bad guys turn against each other. Have a fight between them and pick a winner. The other people will have to get in touch, get inside with them. Claire breaks them up because they are fighting together. The hero does not come in now, because they didn’t start anything. They probably get along fine. Not a fight, just people. It’s going to be okay. The little person must be getting mixed up with the bigger one. They are having words between them. Alfred is left out. So he should get in with John about what they are going to do next. John is a dog. That is a dog. He didn’t tell me what he wants. He wants to get the hero in the hair, pull the hair. The hero is a big lady with her hand way down to here [points at picture]. Looks like she is going to get in and tango with him. The hero gets tangled up with the picture on the wall. The picture is coming out of the top of her head. Claire will get friendly with this one here, have a brawl. They don’t fight. They fight. [Half happy and half sad, pick your own ending.]

Henry, Stella, Stella, Patricia, Alice

Living Happily Ever After

2012-01-09T18:49:00.000-08:00

This is our fiftieth anniversary party - in sickness and in health. I saved his life more than once. I kept calling the doctor all the time, and the doctor would check him out. I’m very grateful.

Betty is a good worker. She picks up the rubbish. All the people wanted to have a party.

Mary has her hand on her face, and she’s talking to her friend.

They are all here in chairs, all lined up. They are all hired for the job, to be in the dining room. During the day in the basement with liquor or coffee. After they eat, they are yacking, exchanging comments from different ones.

Rosemary is talking to her husband, telling him to get back to work. He wants her to go cook. She doesn’t want to, she wants to play golf. She’s pretty good at golf. Rosemary was in a competition and she won a piece of paper with her picture on it.

She just left him. Disappeared. And we never saw her again. I think she left him for good, not coming back. She felt sort of hurt.

He was flabbergasted and said, “I can’t understand why!”

The man with the horrible beard is not connected to me, and I am not connected to him. We will call him Jim.

We can’t call him Jim, it’s illegal. You are going to be responsible. Young lady, you are daydreaming. We need to hide this. [She tears up the picture and leaves the workshop.]

Way in the back are the suits. They are probably talking business, trying to get this thing done. The one girl is bored, drinking coffee in the cup, taking in everything that she hears. She is praying for everything to last longer. She says, “He will come back to her.”

Looks like the weather is hot with no sleeves and a backless dress. They are extremely satisfied with things now all out of control, in the beginning to enjoy, give property if they want it, and it looks gentle knowing that the outside is there. You can’t always see everything if you want to see it.

They will end the party depending on how it goes. The party people didn’t think Rosemary should have called in front of everybody.

He said, “You spoiled my whole anniversary!” After that, there were no more fights.

It ends that everybody was happy to come to the anniversary party, and they enjoyed it very much.

I drank all the liquor, and I had a good time with bells on. Betty cleans up all the mess. Poor Betty. I would say, “Please stay! Please stay!” I thanked everybody for coming and gave each of them a remembrance, a toy, a round thing representative of the company.

Henry, Margaret, Barbara, Betty, Margaret, Maxine, Evelyn, Anne, Alice

A Story about Animals

2011-12-26T06:40:00.000-08:00

It’s a cow, isn’t it? I had an idea. Make sheets from heavy paper. Double wide. A wolf. Probably. They are looking for home. That’s what they want you to do. If I cut this in the middle. You can’t cut this. I want to make a home for all these animals. If we cut it in the middle. We have to split it in fifty pieces, twenty five each. Put the number and name of each animal. Make a whole set of drawings. I’ll give you pictures of animals. I have to go to school to see if I can get a whole pile of drawings. I found them wandering around in the woods, starving to death. They don’t hunt because they are too weak. They are weak because they can’t get food. The stronger ones can eat - find some food. We can work on this a little at a time. Make a book out of it. The sheep is full of fleas. The other one scratches his head. You have to have money to get food. A bag of dreams costs five dollars. Beside that, they need water. Put them near a pond. Now they are healthy. They feel better I guess so. We can get the state to give us money to buy food. I don’t want it to be a pretend story because I love animals. A young man in his fifties, with dark hair, dressed like a farmer is going to come and help the animals. He feeds them whatever he has, some grain, water, no meat though. I don’t think they have meat. You have to let me think and go through my accounts. Corn. I’d put them in something and feed them after I checked to see if they are not in danger. Five or six but not too much because he would be ill. Have you ever had a time when you are not ill, but you run into problems? It’s all sweaty. You don’t need that, but you need music for the ears. She didn’t go far. Ten dollars. I don’t know right now; I’ve been busy getting other things going. Horses are side by side. Maybe after a while they can go hunting, not now, because they are still run down. He has more food for them. They have a hiding place about this big [she holds her hands apart two feet] where they keep the food. One of them says to the other, “Are you my mother?” She says, “Yes!” [They clap their hands and smile.] They find the hiding place and have enough food to satisfy themselves.

Henry, June, Betty, Margaret, Gretchen, Maxine

It Takes Life to Make a Baby

2011-12-18T16:54:00.000-08:00

Mergitroy’s jazzing it up. Patricia just found out that they are expecting a baby. His wife is playing the flute, while the husband sings a song. It goes like this, “My parking days are over. My sparkling lights are out. What used to be my sex appeal is now my water spout.” They are not children; they are adults. It is entirely different now. Mergitroy is juggling two apples, and he drops the apples. They just get along, that’s all. This is the first time she has ever been pregnant. They are excited and afraid, it’s something new. She was a cashier, and she told the boss at J.C. Penney. She rings up things that people are buying and shows them various objects that they are wanting to look at. She continues to work while she is pregnant. Mergitroy is a railroad man, he rides the rails and watches over them. She had her baby, a girl, six pounds and four ounces. The baby has blond hair and blue eyes. Giving birth was not too much trouble. They call her Abigail Loretta. You have to have bottles, diapers, everything else and whatnot to take care of the baby. She slept through the night and she was very comfortable. Patricia took six months off work. Make sure the baby has a good home to go to - that’s the first thing. She works eight hours a day. It makes it kind of rough. Mergitroy asks her, “Take a leave of absence while the baby is so young.” She says, “You take care of the baby.” He growls at her. She growls back at him and says, “I’m doing it may way.” He should help her out accordingly, get supper ready. He is good dad. He prepares, helps her prepare. Thank God! She quits her job. The dear little baby made up for everything. They work it out very well.

Thelma, Barbara, Christine, Gretchen, Patricia

Saving Rosemary

2011-12-09T22:12:00.000-08:00

It’s pretty good. This is a masterpiece. Skinny legs on these two. They are really working hard, that’s for sure. Playing mostly, throwing that darn piece of wire around. This scribbly stuff, I’d say throw it away, it looks like it was used for something else. It reminds me of a cold winter’s night, and I wouldn’t have any use for it. It looks like frozen ground and the stuff out there, I grew up on a farm so that’s what it looks like. Long skinny people trying to go fishing with a net. I could never stand there and do that and not fall in the water. So far they have not had luck, and hopefully before the day is over, they will have something. There must be something there or they wouldn’t go after it. They come from Oregon. One is Rosemary, and Charlie is the man. Cart it all around like a Caesar. Make a boo boo here and there. Rosemary got a fish hook in her foot. Charlie helped her get the fish hook out of her foot. It wasn’t easy, but because it was cold, she didn’t feel a lot of pain. He straightened the fish hook and pulled it out, so that it wouldn’t be so painful. He probably does have more experience than she has. He learned that at his father’s knee. That’s how a lot of boys learn things. They follow their father. The guys throws a net, and it’s a good idea. From the back and from the front, everywhere the same picture. They got the fish hook out and lived happily ever after. They will do very well because a fish hook can be easily healed. She won’t limp forever. They won’t go fishing very much with a net now.

Alex, Gretchen, Barbara, Thelma, June, Stella, Alice

People or Targets

2011-11-21T15:55:00.000-08:00

[*I’ve decided to include my prompt questions, so that readers can understand part of the reason why the storytellers sometimes takes sudden, unexpected turns. - Alice]

[How did the elephants get there?]

The owners of the elephants had to take them in there. I don’t know. I haven’t ever seen any elephants in a church.

[Why did the owners take them in there?]

The elephants are not getting along. This one wants it one way, that one wants it the other way. Pretty hard to straighten it out. They need to go to the hospital. All the elephants have to do is make a visit and straighten it out. They will operate on the elephants to straighten the problem.

[What is the problem?]

The elephants have no say. This one wants to do it the right way. This one wants to warn them. Every bunk has the same rules and the same fruit. Apples, sour cucumbers, and so on - the cheapest and most tasty. Sacrilege. We don’t need any elephants in the church. Send a peeping tom to find out what they are doing in there. They are making too much noise.

[Who gave them permission to bring elephants in the church?]

The leader is Chief of Staff. This person is full of explanatory advices. He’s the man we are going to take care of. The Chief of Staff is with the most authority, and is popular and is authorized to do things like that. He will keep all the money. He is fully responsible for every loss. People have to have leaders.

[Where did the money come from?]

If they want to collect money, they can collect it from the people. This is a waste of four minutes. The people are happy as they can be, but nobody is getting rich. If they get a lot of money, and it is heavy, then the elephants can carry all the money. They are big and can carry heavy loads. If they are using change, and not dollar bills, then it will be very heavy. It seems like he was helping other people. That should have made them happy.

[What will he do with the money?]

It all depends on his personality - play, take chances, be popular, or be the most wise person. It depends on how you agree with the one who calls certain persons, but it is hard to define persons with ability, because the one who commits this kind of crime has no witnesses. Would you approach a large elephant if you were a small person? I would not do that.

[How much money is there?]

I don’t know. Count it. You should go around equivalent to the years that you have walked around that place, and then you will know how much money the Chief of Staff keeps. The bank holds the money for him, and the bank knows it is his money. If they ask my name, I will say, “My name is yesterday.” They don’t know my name. If you have a lot of money, then you have a name, and someone will keep somebody from stealing it.

[Is that your real name?]

Many times I was walking the street, and there were all kinds of people. The majority of them were asking, “Hey! Hey! Which one are you?” They are using names they are not supposed to use, names that are not popular in conversation, names that they are not supposed to use in church. I’m not going to tell you my name. Or maybe I will just call myself “Chuck”.

[What happens next?]

The Chief of Staff is going to check it all out and make a decision. You must have a base of how to make a decision. Find out which person is the most expensive, because there are people who like different stories and have some fun. He is presented with quite a lot of people. He wants to be popular by doing things people will appreciate. If he has a lot of money then he will be popular. Arming soldiers as frequently as possible, getting in touch with them by conversation. Those who drink go to the bar, those who don’t drink, don’t go to the bar.

[Where are they going?]

Mars. And do you know what Mars is? It is a planet. I’ll call you in about a year. As far as I can remember, going backwards, the scientists on this earth are trying to find a representative for this earth. I heard that Mars, and then the sun, and then the moon were once classified as one piece of something. Due to the fact that there are thousands of past experience, thousands of pieces, people are also able to ask about detachment. For that kind of expedition, we need an extra engine. Put your mind on those who are in that kind of space. I explained to someone who wants to know more about the capsule. When collisions take place, it will be very easy to determine that the only person who can do it is the person who knows the capsule can travel, with the advice of scientists and people who have a lot of conversation. Extra, extra curious things, that up until now, no one is able to solve the problem.

[What is the problem?]

Last week I read an article that they came to the conclusion that the earth is part of seven planets covered with sun in different suns. If they can stop one, maybe there will be signs, and people who are fortunate to be there can find out about it. I never found this kind of money on the street. That is luck with a sign on top of it. Only with luck can you achieve this kind of profit. It is nice to go church and Mars. Interesting, and equally full of power and detachment.

[Do people find the answers?]

It is possible to find out about everything.

[How do they find out?]

A book in the library claims Christ will come back again. Maybe when Christ was a part of earth’s life, around back then, the only people who were curious were the people who observed Him. These are the only people classified to answer this project. If you like to have very curious questions and answers, try to find the book. Read very slowly, because no person can claim he knows the answer to this particular project, this kind of readership. The Bible has questions and the Bible has answers, but not the way any normal person can read or explain to himself.

[Does this mean they find the answer or does this mean they don’t find the answer?]

The answer will find a question. Somehow, the pieces of these two items are too fast in order to meet and establish.

[How does the story end?]

The elephants will find a place in the circus. They leave the money in the bank, I guess.

[What should we call the story?]

I don’t know. Maybe we will call it “People” or maybe we will call it “Targets”.

Phil, Henry, Evonne, Betsy, Joseph, Alice

If Phil Comes Home

2011-11-07T14:27:00.000-08:00

Phil, Christine, Henry, June, Gretchen, Patricia

I can’t tell. It looks like a dog. A tree. Cutting his nose. A walrus. That’s an animal. That’s what it look like to me. I can’t see nothing. The man is trying to help the walrus. A monster is what he’s got there. That’s a good picture. He is healthy. Do you know that? It looks like an animal. It’s got to be a big one. It must be good, because it is by a human being. They tame them to be good animals. They work on him. I don’t know that they did, but they tried to make a good animal out of Phil, that’s his name. The man is a goose with a long neck. I was in the past. I forget. The man has a saw or an axe, chopping up the monster, cutting the wing off. Chopping his head. Yes, I can see that myself. It is stupid, and I won’t. Honest. I don’t care what they. He’s doing something to Phil’s head to train him. Phil’s looking for somebody that he can eat. Tame him to be a good animal. He’s cutting away on that animal. It might be dead. I don’t know. I won’t be made out of anything. That’s a big animal! That is the first thing I see. The animal gets tears in his eyes, starts crying from getting brutalized. He says “ow, my leg falls off.” Phil won’t be crying if he loses that leg. If the man can get through it, then it will be the end of the leg. A big sore on his leg. It’s very sad that he got the infection and has to have that done. I hope so. I knew, but I don’t know about that. It might be. He’s cutting it off now. We’ll know much more after he stops cutting. The man thinks it will help. Don’t get me wrong. It must be alright, because you’ve been with it. The story will end when he gets through cutting. I love Phil and I care for Phil. Phil gets better, in other words, a watch dog.

Women Walking, Men Watching

2011-11-07T14:23:00.000-08:00

Four windows, a wash job. Are they on this property? Here? [Patricia makes a box shape with her hands.] Sitting out there watching the ladies go by. Typical thing. In the middle of the street and a park bench, doing whatever they want to. Every time I sit down to have my teeth done, they say go here, go there. They are excreamely [SIC] interested up. Time to turn in. They’ve been sitting for a half hour on the part where they are going to be watching. The women are just walking away, down the hill, to the park or somewhere. They are close enough, so they must know everybody. The men have big eyes, square feet, and big shoes. The women are going to heaven only knows down the street. The two men are friends since they sit together. The women are friends, not sisters, they’ve got their hair fixed. Typical men sitting there. None of them are married. The women are going somewhere to sleep, and live, and come back. They are going to the center. I wonder if they look at their legs or not. Peering at the legs, not missing a thing, shaking their heads about the women. Good, the sun is out, but it must be cold, because they’ve got coats on and everything. All of them should make plans together, but they can’t do that now; they’ve been passed by. A sign on the post will tell them which way to go, or it says, “Typical Men”. If they all have a goal, then they will all head this way. They are out in the walking together in the jacket in the weather. The men are talking together about what they are going to do, and they haven’t been able to take their eyes off of them yet. Invite them home to dinner. The problem is there’s only two men and three women. We need to know what he’s thinking about. Where do you get a man like that? It should end if they get together, but nobody is moving. They get up and go talk to the ladies, talk them into going with them. The one on the left gets left out. She wants to get in the crowd. She could be angry or she could be glad to get out of the way. She says, “Leave me alone. Keep going.” She’s not going to stand there all the time, she takes off the other way.

Henry, Patricia, Gretchen, Margarette, Maxine

Looking for the Reference Point

2011-10-24T19:06:00.000-07:00

Is it mine? Are they telling me I can’t do this? Do we have to talk about this first? There’s nothing on. I don’t care for this, when they have nothing on. The only thing good about it is you can tell which rear-end person is the best looking. Immerse yourself in the front. Ahhhh! That is where you see the beauty of the person.

I can’t. I can’t. I don’t. I don’t. Lady, what is wrong with you? But, it seems to be okay, it just so happens, because there was nothing else to wear. You must have the will to be who you want to be, ignoring all the other reasons. That is the philosophy of the table. I can’t stay positively yellow, but I can try. The person on the extreme right is tin. The person next to her is a man who had to listen to what they say. That’s why I feel like I do, listening to them say, “Too darn long.”

No, no, no. Well, it seems to me they don’t look ashamed. They look loose, talk to people, and don’t pay much attention to their body exposure. Do you know why? I’ll tell you why. All the people who have their backs to the camera can’t be recognized. In some countries there is an exposure that can be punished. Pay attention.

You shouldn’t pay attention to that kind of problem, if you do it yourself. How can you judge? If all the people think it is normal, let’s have it normal. A normal dance. Enjoy life.

I always talk to myself and ask why did God create it? That part of the body? Why did He create it? Bad people belong to you and your eyes, but you find yourself wondering if someone is bad or good. It depends on opinion. Opinion is based on looks and thoughts. If you can judge on those things, well, then okay. I’m too old for this position. But remember that one side is polished. The other side is not polished.

People were created in a special unit. The exact moment they were created, there were a lot of crystals, breaking out, creating an illusion. Use your own judgment, after they have finished ripening. Red tomatoes. They used to be green. Right now, they are yellow.

They have all had a little bit of alcohol, I think. Some of them are in the shadows.

What do you think people should do, when they have been assigned a place, a bed, a room, and things that don’t belong to them? Do they call this home? If they panic, they don’t know how to go to where they belong. Someone should assign them to a group. Organize them in categories. Tell them how to go home. How can I go home?

The light is steady from the east to the west. The position, they are all the same, but all the wide shoulders cause problems. They may try to follow the sun, the direction of the light, but then they come to a point where they ask if they are on the right road. Should they be there? Or should they be in a different direction?

I’ve seen this before. This picture was in the newspaper, attracting a headline so they can push your mind into a predicament. You can see that they all have the same spot, in one place, except they have to be careful of one man who is back-face in facing the sun. The back of the face is facing the sun, and that’s his form. The face back is facing the front sun, the other side of the face, but not from the back of the head.

They are very popular - why do I think so? Because I have created for myself a world of sun, so I have a chance to solve problems. Some people apart from others undertake 90 degree positions, thus if you look closely, you will find that previously there were at 80. Go 360, like a sport! Turn all the way around and see where you came from, your reference point! On that basis, you can be able to come to a conclusion that they are all not of the same kind, time, or place. I am 85 years old. No, I am much older than that! A long, long time ago, I was born. June 23^rdis how old I am. I am tired! Someone else can take my position because I am done with all of this now. Two people can take my position.

The solution needs to be put on the table. Spread it out on a flat place, to find out the exact location. Look for someone who has a full face, open your hand at 80 degrees to receive the full.

If you don’t expose yourself to the sun, being hidden somewhere in the shadows, then you can use the military. It’s to the left, between the east and the west.

He is going into the sun, physically going into the sun, entering in. With this kind of puzzle, you must be very careful, think logically, solve the problem, and develop a circle. The consequence is that you cannot describe the circle properly.

Do you know where they live? Half of the world is 180 degrees, opposites. Four times ninety is three-hundred and sixty. I can’t find my reference point in any of the nineties. Do you have the ability to pick me up and deliver me to my reference point? What good are these people going to do, without knowing a reference point? You can’t just tell me to walk all around and look for it, 360 degrees, walking all the way around and never finding.

Don’t you have any answers? That’s no help to me. I have no answers for them, looking, just looking.

Sometimes when I talk to people, I ask them if they understand what I am talking about. I don’t know all these words, what I am saying. This is my idea. I haven’t solved the puzzle, yet. Do you know what I am saying? Do you understand? I understand.

Judy, Joseph, Mr. Krokus, Gretchen, Alice

Who Belongs to It

2011-10-11T04:49:00.000-07:00

Two people in a boat. Somebody lost their purse or walked off and forgot about it, and they didn’t realize that they lost it. So, it looks like, it feels like this fell off of something, like a car or something like that, off the back seat. When they started to take off, it just flipped off, because they hit a pothole, and she never, they never picked it up. Whoever had, they lost it. A car going down a road in a forest. Now, I can’t stand it. A waterproof bag with two people sitting in it and a dog on top and a dog on the bottom. They lost part of their wherever they’re going to. It’s on the ground. In the bag, either clothes or some real fast in a hurry to go someplace and it fell out. Shoes. A raincoat. The bag belongs to the fellow in the middle. He’s got something behind him, a woman or a boy. When they get home, then it’s too late for what they were carrying. There’s clothes in there. I know. That is what it shows. They will try to get it back. Evidently it had to stay there for quite a while. The wheel fell off the car. The fellow is young, with a small head, and he’s hanging out of the boat. There’s a hook. He went too fast and fell out of the bag. If he didn’t feel it, he can’t find it. He has, he has, he had other informants. A young woman, because it’s pink. A guy came and picked it up. He has a child with him, a small child. He held the kid tight, the child. It has the thing on top, that piece should be where someone can see it. A neighbor or somebody that would pick it up. He may have a sentence on the thing to tell them that he lost it. Whoever came to him can return it back. They may go around to see who it belongs to. Check and see. A name to pick up and take back again. A short cut. He took his chance to see whether he got it back or not, to give it to some other deal to hold on to it if it belonged to him. It is always marked. Find where he goes. Does this belong to you? He says, “Thank you for finding it. [Here, the story teller starts speaking another language.]” Therefore, he got it back again. It is hard to say whether it is right or wrong. He did not hold for himself, but found the problem and satisfied that he did his best. Tried to find someone that belongs to it. Pick it up for him, the gentleman was tickled to death to find it at the same time. Back again, that’s my opinion. They don’t do anything about potholes. Drove through it. I’m happy for him. A good day. A good treat.

Henry, Gretchen, Mary, Mr. Kokus, June, Alice

The Tiger Tale

2011-09-29T06:09:00.000-07:00

Mother and baby. They are eating. The little one changed. They are enjoying it. They enjoyed it in the past. Two animals. A tiger man and a guy. It’s gruesome looking. It is time to play together. If they have a fight, they can let mom and dad settle it.

Mother and baby.

Mother looks tired, doesn’t she? The one that is more human is Tom. I’m not animal oriented. Someone with personal problems, then whatever. Here I am.

They are in bed, where they stay part of the time. One is darker, but still. Leaning against. Cuddling up. I wouldn’t think that for wild animals. They are in a house. Someone had to adopt them. They need a little place that is already built. Mother’s putting her arm around. I can’t imagine Tom letting it.

Mother looks kind of tired, doesn’t she?

I’ve never been around this type of people. Tigers and things. They had to have been together before, to be calm like this. They seem to be friends. Where are they looking to go to? Whatever they are going to do, they are going to be friends doing it. Friends, not enemies.

They have not always been friends. Wildlife. He went up a tree, encouraging the other animals in his area to go up the tree.

Look at mothers eyes. She’s so tired she doesn’t know what to do. They met in the tree. Tom followed him up. They might not understand each other’s language. Growling. They have to have some time of understanding to be that cozy. They say they love each other very much.

Momma looks tired, too.

They go out in the back yard with all the trees and shrubbery. They would like something that they could [makes climbing motions], even if they tore it down. Big ones, little ones, in between ones. It was more fun than anything I have ever seen.

This mother is tired, already.

The baby is okay. Stripes.

She’s tired. She’s been busy. Killing some time I guess. See her eyes? She just had the baby. The baby is wide awake. They might go to sleep again. We saw them as babies, but they are worth while.

Mother is tired. Look at her eyes. From the north to the south, all part of it. They will look for some food to eat.

Mama’s tired. They will get good for each one. They will find it. They will find whatever is available. Some milk for the young one. She better be busy if she is going to feed him. Is this commercial feeds or open spaces? Which way are they traveling? They are in commercial places. They are on a blanket. They need a group. They need others, brothers and sisters, probably, born at the same time. If Mama doesn’t get the right food, she might collapse. She will eat peanuts if she can get it. She won’t start nibbling on the child, she will get up and hunt for small animals that can’t defend themselves. Some kind of wild thing she can tear apart. If they are aware of plants and possible to obtain, she may do this.

The mother looks kind of tired. Maybe she fought a battle to keep her young one, a small quick animal, dangerous because it’s wild, out, and already going around checking things out - it’s all over though. She fought the battle, and now she is resting. The spend time together, not so close and calm is they were on a fighting paralysis policy. Build a humongous building of concrete and put them in it, because to begin with, he would not have a big building to be in.

Anne, Gretchen, Mable, Patricia, Margaret, Maxine, Alice

Gone with the Cloth

2011-09-22T09:02:00.000-07:00

I see two wings. A raven. A creature that was created. A plane that looks like it’s been wrecked. It’s a machine that looks like it’s alive. It’s missing parts. They have a use for it or they wouldn’t have made it. I would think that a man built it. A man named Squirmer. He’s 32 years old, an unmarried man. His face is clean-shaven and he has red hair on his head. He wears a suit, a hat, and a hammer. Since he works with equipment, he needs to be medium size. He’s a good guy.

He’s indoors, fixing to go outdoors, after he collects his tools. It’s 8:00 in the morning. He is about to go to work. He already had grits, bacon, and eggs. He had to cook it by himself, or maybe his friend Caesar came over to cook it for him. It’s cloudy-March-April-Spring. He doesn’t remember to bring his umbrella, because men don’t remember anything.

In the afternoon, he will fly or make it float. Somewhere to do both. Fly and float. I heard of one the other day, in the paper. If it was fixed it would flew. Flew for a while and if it is rough then it will go down. The machine is missing parts. His experience makes a difference in how he handles the situation. He doesn’t have a lot of experiences. He has a problem; he crashes and falls.

He falls in the bushes. Rose bushes. He dies immediately. I am sick of him! [At this point, there is a disagreement among the storytellers as to whether they should kill off the main character. We take a vote and decide that he does not die after all.] The machine was not damaged. It stayed in the bushes. Squirmy isn’t hurt, because he wouldn’t take it that high. He pulls the machine out. It was scratched, because he landed in bushes. It required repainting. He paints it red. Just red. He goes to a mechanical shop to buy replacement parts. Parts get exploded or get hurt.

It looks like it isn’t mechanical stuff, it’s some kind of cloth. Heavy duty. He goes to the mechanical shop, and he is told that they don’t have any cloth. His friend Caesar will give him a ride. He sees trees. If he was in my area, he would see me going the other direction. He must find some kind of little repair shop. But it’s a repair shop for cars, so they keep going. He sees blue birds, someone working on a car, red and pink geranium flowers, and a happy couple holding hands walking along. She stubs her toe and doesn’t fall. She keeps going, and he does, too.

Squirmer and Caesar find a store with heavy cloth. Something he can use. They buy the cloth, two kinds, not the same depth, not as heavy as the other. One gives warmth and the other is like material for keeping rain off stuff, a piece of equipment. He gets enough to use, and drives back to his problems. He makes a coat out of it, so he’ll have something to wear in the wintertime. He fixes. And then takes off!

Jeanie, Mable, Ruth, Maxine, Margaret, Patricia, Alice

Gangsters in Chicago

2011-07-29T13:08:00.000-07:00

The people who work there decide to remove part of this big, thick column in order to have more space for parking. The guy is trying to sell something. Apparently they approve of the occasion. I don’t understand the direction here, the flow of water is about all I can say. What kind of liquid is being used from under the ground to above the ground? This material they are trying to move is chemically dangerous. These are special forces - anyone who comes here will get gas in the stomache, so powerful that a person could be sick.

A man and a woman are dancing there. Up above it says "Josef." Josef must have something to do with it. It looks nuts to me because they are yelling at each other and pointing high. Why don’t they go up and be done with it?

While this action is being taken in a big, big, big scale, any antique tree should be left alone for the signal to people who are complaining about it. In the past, this was a beautiful country or land. Save it for a few seconds. Preserve your health. Save money for the barber shop. People who use this kind of a passage, this is a healthy way of preventing some trees which are still growing. Eventually at that rate, the trees will be cut down, and everyone will be sorry. Everything grows back into the ground.

They are pointing at what they know. They want that mouth to shut up. They know already, but what about the rest of the population? They need more space! How many people will come and be crowded, and disappointed with you, disgusted, and turning back home? Consequently, when the work is so hard, trying to preserve stone and trees is very popular.

They are pointing at the camera, because they want you to see what is ahead of it. People who are trying to remove the camera are trying to grow higher and higher, to trim as much as possible, to build a special building for chemical expansion. They are debating about what they should do. The man on the right seems to know what he thinks should be done, he is satisfied with the idea that they should go ahead, continue what they have started. They must see somebody somewhere. They are trying to get attention, to watch for the bad storm if you go out.

She’s had enough, yelling with that arm way up there. He’s fed up with that, too, pointing up to her. The camera belongs to someone else. People are very proud of their names and want their names on walls that are highly visible. At the same time, the government accuses and makes people work hard so it can be strong as possible.

In all probability, they had a close encounter several times when people who were too far from each other were questioned deeper, deeper, deeper into the ground. Josef, the owner, is on the sidewalk telling them how he feels about the whole thing, how he approves. The others don’t approve of what is going on, because they are trying to figure out what the camera is doing.

It doesn’t seem like anyone is asking to change. They want to prop each other up to reach the camera. In all probability, it is a well known fact that when you take something to the post office, it is not good to be as delicate as possible, but do a job that is very secure. He is telling the cameras that they want to decide what is the better idea: to talk or to dance.

Trees with out support from the ground will not be growing properly, the skin detaches, and then they have a 50% chance of being male or female, and then the wheel on the sidewalk will go riding up the building.

They decide to talk. Nobody ever is able to dance and be acceptable by the rest of the crew. It is questionable. Some people want to have no part of it. Certain items called food and certain items called leaves and other things - those people will just change temperatures of weather, to conflict and dilute, cause damage. And things fall down.

They want to get rid of the camera. The camera is not very heavy, so they can take it down. If they had a ladder, they could reach it. This picture was made so that passersby would know. They passed by and left their bicycles parked there. Those parts should be used, traded; look closely at the problem. They open up their mouth, and they are surprised because those particular items are very easily attached, repaired, and reattached.

Young people are not very happy being locked up in small territories with small actioning. They all want to read something about their country, watch movies that are highly appreciated. Let’s be honest, they are not supposed to come close to the point where they can touch the camera. People who live in this place take an interest and think it should be removed.

Why?

Get rid of all this stuff. They are successful. It needs to end. They all go home and leave the letters on the wall, J-O-S-E-F, and they study the camera to see how and why it happened.

Joetta, Joseph, Alice, Maxine, Gretchen, Henry, Alice

Diamond in the Sky

2011-07-25T13:27:00.000-07:00

“Oh my Lord!” John, the little brother, has his hands up and he is saying, “Oh my Lord!” Little fella is happening, happy, happy.

There is a happy family, a father and kids having a good time and laughing together. Dad is grinning because someone said something funny. These things are so. Grandmother and Grandfather - the two children call them “Nana” and “Papa”.

John is saying, “Oh it is too much, much, much. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.”

Everybody looks happy. The older brother, Peter, is saying, “I don’t want to do it.” Peter is in the back, so far away, trying to think of something to say. He is not too happy, a little jealous of his little brother, because John is bigger and getting more attention from his father and the others in the group.

Peter found a diamond, but he put it in his pocket, because he doesn’t know what a diamond is. They are not in snow, they are in the back of a truck that has hay in it. Nice nay-nay-hay, very nice. They are watching fireworks and reacting to the loud booms. There must be something going on.

I see ever watch, and look, and see!

He always puts his little hands. That’s my mind, my boy.

They are all smiling. Peter says, “Don’t be silly, that’s just fireworks.”

The only drama is explosives, redness in the sky. I think somebody might die if they land a parachute in fireworks. Fireworks don’t light people up at night. I am a realist. I can’t deal with that.

Mom is at home, close by, making some hot dogs for the boys. They look like they are all ready for their food, and they see it is about to come.

Later, Peter’s mom finds the diamond in his pocket in the laundry. She asks him, “How did you find it? And what is it for sure? (Because you can’t always tell.)”

Peter says, “It is a pretty stone. I found it on the street after the parade.”

The reason he said that is because he likes to wish. Anybody does! His mom is unsure, because a normal person can’t tell the difference. She takes it to the jeweler to find out how much it is worth.

The jeweler tells her, “It has a good value. A fair amount. Fifty dollars.”

They say, “Woop-tee-doo!” And then they wonder what they will do with the money, but they decide to keep it. Peter is proud because this is good amount of value for kid to find. The father should advise the kid to keep it. But a young kid doesn’t know that much about it.

The father says, “We will keep it unless someone claims it. If we determine someone was looking for it, we will give it to them. If nobody claims it, then we will put it in your college fund.” The father turns it in to the officials of the parades. Nobody claims it. Peter lives happily ever after. And his family lives happily ever after to some extent.

Henry, Ruth Ann, June, Jeanne, Alice, Alice

Costume Party

2011-07-21T19:22:00.000-07:00

The tall lady is in charge. Someone's holding it back, not letting it go. The boy in front is having such a good time. Looks like a sign says, "Art Gallery." I don't notice it, but I wonder if they are having a meeting. They might be planning on doing something with that piece of equipment on the left. They are walking to see something. It's a group of children in costumes having a parade down the middle of the street. They probably made their simple masks in the Art Gallery. If it is Halloween, then there will be many sections marked for coming and going. They will need to push all the cars out of the way so they can see the program. If they can't agree on things it will cause an argument. In general, they do not coordinate together in groups because they come from different schools where they are not all taught the same thing. They have different lessons; it's a free-for-all. Only two grown-ups are required to be there. There may be other grown-ups on the sidelines keeping the kids within the boundaries. It depends on how big of a town it is if they are going to an exercise program or a party. Curiosity gets the closer to what is going on. The party dwindles down to just a few. It's just one of those things. In a political parade, everyone has extra masks and appendages. There's someone on a loudspeaker running for office. Since it is as dim as it is, there are only children. No old people! It has to do with politics. They can look at children's art, have refreshments, and the politicians will meet and greet individually. Do you oversee, overseas? That's understandable. Costumes and pretenses, but children just have fun.

Gretchen, Jeanne, Mable, Alice, and Alice

Be My Friend

2011-07-15T21:29:00.001-07:00

Brother and sister in the park holding hands, cute as they can be. I’m not sure who is saying goodbye to who, I don’t know much about youngsters these days, I just sit inside and listen to the others tell me about what is going on. Two children playing in a compound of some sort and one child has a bird that he is holding up, the other child is looking at it, and I expect that they are intrigued by this bird. It seems like it is a pet. Families have been given a place to live. The two children have come across a parrot; someone’s pet has gotten away. It is obviously quite tame. I don’t even know where the picture was made. That is all I can talk about. I can’t talk about it. They are playing ring around the rosy. This was here before. They are working full time. A place where they can play, a part that is educational and Christian-like where they are taught how to… I don’t really know what they are teaching. They are trained in a care-center. Each one has to put in his part. They are going to play. They are already playing. They are watching the parrot. I’m not used to them doing that. They are holding it. The parrot belongs to the boy with the blue shirt. There is a big floor like a gymnasium. Do any of you know of a place where they would like to have children my age? I am an unwanted child. Not necessarily. I would like to look for another home. These are two stranger or else they would be hugging. This might be a displaced person compound and the parrot is a displaced animal or bird. The children are being gentle with it. Something attached to its leg because it escaped from his home. They feel a kinsmanship with the bird, which is unusual for children this age. There is no way to know whether this bird has a vocabulary. She wants him to go somewhere he hasn’t planned to go. He may be the one doing the talking if that’s the case. They have ways to reach the destination. Is that in France? I remember when that picture came out. I’ve only killed myself. That’s all. I’ve never killed anyone else. Johnny and Kim, whatever that translates into their language. Johnny is showing Kim the bird, and they feel like they have come across a beautiful treasure. They are well-behaved, but if they go of by themselves maybe the won’t be. These are trained children. Their parent’s don’t know what they are doing. Neither one of them are crying. The parents are behind something. The parents are working in the fields. There is a caretaker of some sort watching over What one thing I could do to make them remember what I did so they won’t forget me? I wish I knew what it was. I smile. Hold hands. Don’t say anything bad. I hope they can see through me and see I want to be their friend. They are not fighting, and that is a good sign. Maybe if you went by the school and showed them those children do you suppose they might know? I don’t live here like you do; I just live here once in a while. Polly wants a cracker. If so, it is ironic, because these two children are hungry and they want a cracker, too. I bet if they had a cracker they would give it to the parrot, even though they are hungry. They look like very kind children. If the teachers are dead, it will be a good story as long as they are ready to go. If they are not ready to go and they die then it will not be too joyous. In their conversation they locate part of the things have been doing so they can do it again. And they will look for somebody, for one of the parents. Whatever they do, they will do it together. That’s the way it goes, that’s a good idea

Phil, Henry, Mabel, Gretchen, Jeanne, Ruth Ann

The Madding Crowd

2011-07-08T13:19:00.000-07:00

A bunch of people together enjoying life, laughing and joking - it’s a carnival atmosphere on the street, with cubicles set up. It’s probably the Winter Park Spring Festival, an art show. The weather is nice and fairly warm. Maybe rain will come later.

This older guy in the front looks like he’s one of us, the way he’s dressed, the way he’s combed his hair. He must be happy for the trip, but he didn’t come from far away. He found a temporary home there in the neighborhood. He is the leader of the group. There are a lot of followers who are just as interesting.

The one with his back turned has seen something. She is a safety type of person, looking for something to prevent an accident, to prevent something from happening to the other people. I don’t know for sure where they are going. It depends on how good of friends they are, whether the others will trust her as a leader to show them where to go. That way they wouldn’t get in trouble.

This character with the blue shirt looks like a helper who tries to sell the paintings and the wares. He is only responsible for this one particular tent.

The girl with the sunglasses has her arms full of things that she has purchased already, some glassware from one of the vendors in the booth.

A sudden, heavy rainstorm, which they don’t seem to be prepared for, begins. And having participated in a hundred, a thousand outdoor art shows, they would hide in the tents, totally hiding in all the art there until the storm lessened. The artists would put plastic over their artwork. Total confusion. The crowd will thin by at least 50%. Plastic to put over paintings and sculpture, to keep their work dry, to protect the work - all outdoor artists come equipped with that stuff. If they come equipped with tents to put their work under, they are prepared.

The guy with the visor will take his hat down and run with the crowd. Even though he’s overweight, he won’t have any trouble running with the crowd.

The one with the glassware in between the others would get really scared, not only scared for herself, but concerned for other people as well. She might be concerned about her glassware breaking, scared about the jostling crowd more than she is concerned with the stampeding crowd.

If the crowd scattered they would have to get back together to go home. There would have to be someone to supervise the whole thing.

Henry, Gretchen, June, Maybel, Jeanne, Alice

Protector

2011-06-27T07:50:00.000-07:00

There’s two. One is going. [June looks at the trees, whistles like a bird, and taps her feet on the ground as if she’s running.] Somebody is carrying a lady through the forest. The Georgia woods with average Georgia weather, warm and sunny. The forest is in the woods somewhere. She’s dead, like me. I’m going to die at 7:00 pm. [Ruth Ann starts crying.] Every day is a bad day. They won’t miss me. He’s going to get rid of her, put her in the ground in a garden.

[The other storytellers try to reassure Ruth Ann.] He is very gently carrying her, rescuing her, taking care of her. He would not walk off and leave her. He can protect her by putting her in the ground. To put someone in the ground for no reason is bad behavior. Even though he was the aggressor, he found her in a dangerous position. The people’s safety at heart. This is just one moment of kindness. She’s hurt. He’s carrying her at a distance, and her with her hands around his neck to help. Maybe she stepped on something. He is taking her home. Maybe she just likes to be carried. There’s a rock. Some people like to be carried. It must be nice to be carried. I want to be carried. I have Friday ninety.

He’s a Union soldier named Jonathan, who has found a woman lost in the woods. It’s around noon, because the light is hitting the top of the leaves on the trees, lighting their path to safety. This is a tribute to the Union troops, as much as they hated fighting with the South, he is using this occasion to represent the war between the States. The fact that it is as much or more about helping people than shooting and killing. This kind of tribute is a proof of that. Two lovers, friendly, because they are not fighting. She most likely is a person who is a victim of the fight between North and South.

I suspect it depicts Annabell Lee. George Washington is saving her. They could on the rock for safety reasons or to celebrate something. If they are there for safety, they better stay put. They are afraid of something. He has a gun on his shoulder, which signifies the battle between North and South. There are lots of rocky places in the area. It is a typical forested area, obviously a depiction of what went on. The base of it is the base of a statue. They are a statue commemorating that the northern soldiers had the safety of the southern soldiers in mind when they were fighting.

She could be scared because there are snakes in the grass. It would wrong for her health to be there, some kind of harm or danger or debris. Any kind of snake is vicious. Even grass fish are dangerous if you're not prepared to go through the weeds. They calmly move through the grass without making noise. You could step in it or on it without realizing it is there. The cowardice is in me. Someone must decide that it is safe enough to move through the grass.

This location is in a park area or something of that nature. It is a depiction of something that actually happened. Some kind of animal would hurt her. An example of being part of the Union with the same freedoms as the states in the North, freedom of speech, all of the freedoms. This is actually saying the North was not trying to hurt the South. This is a really good example of their intentions. It would be fun to see it in person and to know if this actually commemorates George Washington. I can only imagine her name is Annabelle Lee.

Mable, Ruth Ann, Alice, Jeanne, June, Patricia, Henry

Hunting for a Title

2011-06-16T13:11:00.000-07:00

I don’t understand her. She needs to be warmer, I guess. Her name is Bo Peep. I can’t figure her out. All white except a black corset at the waste line. She’s holding a very large rifle in her hands. Look at the instrument she is carrying, it is an awful long thing. Could it be a fishing pole? The whole thing is very incongruous because she has such a fancy dress on in the forest. The lady in her furs. One leg short the other pretty good size. There’s not enough there to say what she is doing. What kind of things is she chasing? An animal? Is she capable of leaving the impression of being somebody? I just don’t know about this one.

Bo Peep travels with someone and takes lessons. She has her head turned to look at someone way back in the ancient days. She is carrying symbols of times gone past. She may be investigating the problem, that she is out of her era, her usual way of living. Bo Peep is an old timer. Whoever has taken this photograph has chosen to lose his way. There are three different colors. She has a tail hanging down there. Her hair is covering her face and making her look like an animal. She may just wander around through the woods to see what else she can find, not just wait around there until something else changes her mind about what she is doing. Bo Peep is a party girl who likes men a lot; she is looking for He-man. But she has made a bad choice of wearing apparel; she doesn’t look like a showgirl. Her hair is hanging down. I accept that now.

I am not convinced by this even though this might be a pretty good rifle. This could be for a play, a modeling pose. She couldn’t be dressed just like herself, with things to look dressed so we can’t know what kind of person she is. Holding a gun. It is very unusual. Does this have something to do with safety? Guns and people together, we haven’t learned how to put guns and people together. She could have left us a note to tell us where she was going, if she was hunting or if she is working for an advertisement. Everything you see with a gun is going to kill someone or something. You can have a lot of fun being destructive.

Long white hair, one arm half way showing, a very unusual costume, this is quite a deal. She’s posing for an ad in a magazine, and she is advertising the rifle. She seems to be in the woods, advertising a rifle for hunters to buy. You have to feel that she’s posing to advertise their wares. Anyone looking at the ad will look at her instead of the rifle. They have chosen the wrong way to advertise. The rifle looks too common; you need something to stand out in the program, to interpret what you are doing. Hunt or build fence? I don’t know.

She’s looking at the man that owns the rifle. She is uncomfortable, because she is unaccustomed to holding a rifle. To be in the woods holding a rifle is a strange situation. No man is looking at the rifle. Whoever is advertising the rifle is handling it the wrong way. He may not necessarily get fired, but he won’t accomplish his mission. He is not bad; he is just not that bright. If he is advertising a girl, that will not happen, because the person looking is torn between looking at the gun or looking at the pretty model. If he is advertising a woman, he has failed in that as well, because her clothing is incongruent. His boss will fuss a lot and give him a hard time. They need a time and place when the two of them agree on what they are going to do, instead of looking at what they’ve already done. Move on past the mistakes. The end is one shot from the gun; she is out on the run. She goes back to the office and collects her paycheck, and she leaves that problem up to whoever hired her. She did the job they asked her to do. It is now their problem.

Gretchen, Mabel, Jeanne, Patricia, Alice (artwork by Jeanne)

The Painted Lady

2011-06-09T17:05:00.000-07:00

Each person is entitled to think and to make themselves beautiful and lovable. She is obviously a paper-mache person, a stand in for a real person. Her face is made of newspaper print, the story of her life is imprinted all over her face. Whatever she cares for in life, to make the best of it to help other people establish friendship. Be as good to each other as you can. They try to tell her something or help to improve her. Not with all the make-up. She doesn’t have to put a whole lot on. See the eyelids weighed down.

No one has seen a person who looks like that. Her name is June. It is a hideous picture. Oh so beautiful. Are we sewing? She is beautiful! Someone did an awful lot of work on this one. I’ve never seen a more beautiful one. Her smile, her eyes, that’s about all I know about her. I don’t know her that well. She is a beautiful woman all the way through, a friendly open person who tries to understand the position of those who speak to her. She is making some noise, “Bu-bu-bu-bu-bu.”

There’s not a natural thing there. Her eyes are overemphasized with black circles, her cheeks are outlined in the stupid red, a stupid picture someone made who does not know what a human being looks like. Anyone who would make her look like that should be sad. That is not beautiful. It is ugly to me the way they have her all outlined. They don’t have anything on hair or smiles. I wouldn’t give two cents for that. I’m sure it cost you more than that.

Whoever did the art work knows exactly what they are doing. Someone who reads her story will have the opinion that she hides her own identity in lots of stories about other people. She is a kind, thoughtful person who is very insecure about her own intelligence. That is one reason she has her story all over her face. I don’t like anything on a piece of paper. I don’t like it period. You keep putting in and putting in making it up so you can print it out and throw it all over everyone. It’s because you like it. I would throw a saucer at it. Crack a saucer over your head. [This storyteller stands up and leaves the workshop, very bothered about the way the story is turning out.]

We should avoid conflict to keep peace and be healthy and not continually disrupted. We don’t need fear in our lives, to be more and more afraid of things. We need to wait to be sure what people’s intentions are. They are curious to find out more about other people.

One cheek looks rounded and one looks straight and flat across. I don’t agree with all that. She has beautiful eyes. She has little lights in her eyes because a photographer with a flash that left light spots in her eyes has taken her photograph.

Which one do you like the best? It depends on the mood the person is in, what they are looking for, but I’m not an artist. You can’t tell from looking at it what she is thinking or what she is afraid of or what they are thinking. We’ll just let her be who she wants to be and we will live with it. She is looking at us, because we are looking at her. Nobody can get through the expression of self. She is interested in the person she is addressing. She is taking in all the information the person is giving her and doesn’t have a preset opinion of what that person is like. She takes as fact, whatever they say.

Bad people look differently at the eyes. We should help and accept help. I don’t know that you should consider them bad people. Consider them false, the people who project their opinion on her. She is not affected by their opinion because she doesn’t know them. She is being polite, nodding, listening, but the words of the bad ones are not sinking in.

The moral of the story is be good to others. This opinion is a loving and kind opinion. Not putting your bad opinions on top of people before you know them.

Patricia, Gretchen, Jeanne, June, Barbara, Ruth Ann, Mable, Alice

Lost

2011-06-02T21:41:00.001-07:00

A dog named Tiger was chasing a tennis ball when the tennis ball slipped and fell into the water. The tennis ball floated on down the river. These others are just friends, and they own the dog.

He was always going, always going. That was in the early stages.

My husband was oversees. It was women mostly, but it was fun. It’s a sled sliding. I’ve been on that, had a good time on the ice. If I could see on the back, then I could tell you what they are doing. But there’s nothing on the back, so I don’t know. Fun. Fun.

Jennie and Pete are on the Mississippi River. They are just friends who go to school together. There is no romance there, just friends. I thought it was overseas, but it isn’t. I was mistaken.

I got in my car and went. Sometimes it’s cold. Other times it’s very warm. We traveled around the area there. It’s cold and snowing. However, it doesn’t look cold. The puppy dog is on the bottom, almost lost. They have to drag him back.

It’s fun in Europe. They are going down there in that dog. He got himself wet. The mother is way back trying to hang on to everything. The dog is getting pulled in. It was in Europe, I know.

They are dressed in short sleeves and shorts because they didn’t know that it was going to get cold. It looks like they have no blankets or jackets, but the campground is in the distance. It is not part of this picture. They have supplies. Wherever they go, they go and the dog goes with them. I’m not sure if this is the right one. The dog doesn’t like being wet and cold. They will pull him out the water, dry him off, wrap him in a blanket, and give him something to eat. Dry him off; it is snowing in a lot of places. Dry your dog off everywhere. Snowy, snowy.

I think those are skiers. I can’t remember if they did. The other dogs are here and there. It is hard to figure them out. Off and on. You hit that snow and golly darn, you slide. See that dog is freezing his buns off. They will go to their campsite, fix a hamburger, baked potato and salad. Then they will go to bed. They are experienced campers who know what happens when you leave the campground unguarded. They brought extra supplies in case raccoons and bears come and eat their food. The best thing about camping is being together, enjoying food and friends. You need to go. Just like me. Out in the open air, independent.

It’s hard to tell you, because they start out, and then they are somewhere other than they want to be. There’s so much to see and so much to do. So busy all the time. You don’t realize it until you are in the middle of it, and then you know you are there. It is beautiful. Everything tastes better like that.

The only problem was the dog falling in, but other than that, the trip was uneventful. They stayed the night, packed their things and went home to Selma, Alabama. They thought they were lost, but they had a great time anyway. The adventure made a wonderful tale for a young son to tell in his classroom the next day.

Patricia, Barbara, Gretchen, Jeanne, Alice

Going Home

2011-05-25T13:41:00.000-07:00

We are on the outside looking in. The weather is not too bad. They can hear children playing, people in the neighborhood laughing and speaking their language. They don’t feel quite as lost as they have been. Tomas and Hoshi got an eviction notice, and they had to move. There’s only two that you can see. That is a lot of stuff for two people, but they are moving somewhere close by. They are crumbing down.

Simply not prepared for the outside world, it was impossible for Tomas and Hoshi to find proper housing. They have packed up their belongings, and they are going back to China town where they can find a place they are familiar with and can afford. Hopefully they can eek out a living there.

That is all their household goods: beds, tables, kitchen supplies, suitcases, newspapers, bags of clothes. They have some pretty good stuff there, the makings of a house, wood planks, and other things. They are not rich, but they are not poor. These are things that are important to them, which they have had all their lives, items they do not want to part with. You can see two of them. They did all of this. They should have done something differently. It was a mistake. They gave a couple of chances.

On the way to Chinatown, their load exploded on the street. A few people came to their aid and helped them continue to a familiar waylay. Hoshi took them out of their familiar surroundings. She is the ambitious one. I don’t know where, if they are coming or going. They are leaving the big city into more familiar territory. They are going to the more familiar but get lost on the way. They don’t know where they are going so they have got to find someone to help them know which way to go.

This is interesting, slowly, but badly. I don’t know.

She is intelligent, and she knows the way. She is protecting the objects on the carriage. They aren’t exactly lost. They are going back to where they are more familiar with the customs, more people with their ethnic make-up. Far ahead is familiar territory, suburban as opposed to urban, a place more hospitable for them. They have a chance for a home and a life. They are parked there waiting for traffic to clear.

We can think of hundreds of excuses. They know what they’ve got to do. They have never been down that road. They are ridiculous to load everything on that one little tricycle-thing to move it. It is tipping already.

They hear doors closing, windows opening and shutting, people are just beginning to wake up. Go stand on a street corner first thing Sunday morning, and tell me what you hear! They have to stop a minute and wait for someone to come out and ask them, “Do you smell anything?” But that would be stupid, because they have a lot more to think about than what they smell. There are no people anywhere, everything is closed, so how can they smell anything? Do you smell something? No. There’s no skunk in the city. That is ridiculous. Skunks live in the forest. Let’s be practical. This area is not inhospitable, because they have all done this before.

They can relate. The two of them need help. Nobody has established where they end up - a campground or a hotel? You don’t know. I would assume a campground because they can’t take all this stuff in a hotel room. They have a house somewhere, which I doubt. This is a bunch of malarkey. Ask me what malarkey is. It’s bullshit.

Barbara, Patricia, Dorothy, Maxine, Jeanne, Alice

Bad Habits Versus Good Habits

2011-05-12T12:38:00.000-07:00

It’s very strange, but there are five nuns sitting on bar stools with tin legs with high-heel shoes, which appear to be the legs of the nuns. It is an oxymoron. The drinks are above the nuns. Obviously the bar tender must have placed them up there. For some unknown reason they are meeting in a bar. Perhaps they want to see what the bar looks like. What is the great attraction?

There are fifty working people, a whole expanse - that is what I am talking about. They are having a military meeting. Each one represents ten. So there are ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty. In the work military people do, there is no slowing down. They have lots of legs, which means they can really get out there.

The group is not wearing military uniforms because it is a special occasion, and they are out to have a good time. They are on a secret mission to check out the bar and find out how their soldiers behave when they come to this bar. The bar advertises, “The drinks are on us!” The habits are the nun clothing. The fact that there are ten bare legs is telling, a play on right and wrong.

I’ve been there, and I’ve been through the book. They are going to attend and say, “Lets make the most of this day.” The one on the far right has other plans, but she has not been able to express them. She can’t break in to what the others are into, all their ideas. She hasn’t been able to get a word in. They are trying to all share their ideas, but they haven’t had enough time. They only have three hours.

What does the one on the far right want to say?

She found something. She found the irony in the whole situation. Wearing “habits” to check out the “habits” of the soldiers. It is effective, but only depending on the location. This is an extremely unusual visual situation, if nothing else, almost more than anyone can accept. They are checking out an unusual situation like this. Bars are not the most proper places.

The secret mission is a failure. They were a little too obvious. Nobody is going to entice the military people that go there with their wares as long as there are nuns sitting there in their habits observing their habits. The whole thing is a play on bad habits versus good habits. They were too obvious. That is obvious. The whole thing is obvious!

Evelyn, Jean, Gretchen, Joetta, Betsy, Alice

The Arrival

2011-05-12T12:31:00.000-07:00

Irene seems to be alone in a sea of tall buildings and concrete full of people that rush hither and yon and don’t pay attention to the things around them and don’t get to see much of nature. She is standing on a high balcony in this large city, which I assume is New York City, and she has allowed a small insect to sit on her hand. She is looking at wondrously because she sees so few of them in that environment. The plane is coming in to bring in more people who will be less attached to the real world and more attached to the mechanical world. She is wondering where this will take her in her life.

It’s an opera up high. In her hand is a clink, clink. She is an opera singer who needs a lot of clothes. She wants black heals. She is meeting someone in New York City. Yes. I think so, too. He will want to see her very, very nice. Everything is clean. You can go on it. You have to get a mirror.

Where is the man? He went away in the water? Let me explain. The plane is over the water. The man who is coming to meet her is in the plane. Who is he? He is anybody that can do it. I would tell him “Nine days.” Maybe, “Explain, explain, explain, if you have time.” It’s terrible. He has been away too long, and he needs to explain what he’s been doing. She’ll forgive him. If I knew she was in love with him, if she told me, “I’m in love with him,” then I could know. We have to listen to them.

But that might be someone else’s hand. Very bleak. Very dull. Not enough there to strike up imagination about anything. We don’t want to push it too far.

Irene is going back home to the farm. She is going to get on the plane to get out of the horrible unnatural nature of the city. She is going to go home and see how she feels about the situation before she makes up her mind. This is only a chapter of the story. We need another chapter to give us more information.

June, Jeanne, Patricia, Betty, Barbara, Margareta, Alice

Blood on His Sword

2011-04-28T17:03:00.000-07:00

Not too much. 1, 2, 3. Yes, I can. Scientific news. Is it the same picture? I spent the day on the main division, so I don’t know.

Oh, it’s a couple of fighters from the mid-time, mid-terms. They are fighting because they are mad at each other and everyone else. They got themselves involved. That’s for damn sure, in the middle of the ages.

Evidently he is in love with her, and he wants to get to her, but the father is standing in between saying, “No. You are not of royal blood, so you can’t marry her.”

What happens next?

Oh it is always something good.

Two boys. The King will kill him. That’s bad. You got it. A bunch of idiots fighting and a woman running.

He’s just threatening. He doesn’t have the nerve to whack him one. He’s too old. He is making one last stand to protect his daughter’s virtue.

She is completely unconcerned about the whole thing. She doesn’t give a hoot’s ass. She’s in love with herself. There is nobody in the world who can compete with her, to make up to what she is. Certainly not that little pipsqueak over there with a bird on his head. He wants to attract attention. This is the only way he knows how to get people to like him. He puts a bird on his head, and when the bird talks, everyone think he’s talking. Well, just look at him! He is bowlegged, and he doesn’t even know how to play that instrument he is holding.

She says, “Why don’t they go away and leave me alone. I don’t like either one of them.”

The King has blood on his sword, because he scratched his ear. He has so many clothes on that we can be sure he didn’t scratch anywhere else.

She knows someone else will be along in a little bit. Daddy is doing his big thing, protecting her. She has good sense, so she will go as far as she can, away. She doesn’t want to get involved with that mess. She can run fast, with her legs as far apart as paper. I don’t blame her, with two swords. If I were her, I would hide under the bed, too. Wow. You-how-you! There she stands in the middle. I would run my legs off. That is ridiculous.

That’s my husband. He is going to get some money.

I don’t think the King has money. They didn’t show a tissue. I didn’t see one. When they went home, they took the money. He went home and just left her there. He said, “You just do it yourself.”

She has the money! She’s not going to give the money back to him! What the heck? He bought that to pay her off. She can do anything she wants. Goodbye. Oh yes. Oh wow! She is independent now! She will go everywhere she wants. She hasn’t made up her mind yet, so she will try them all out first. She likes someone attentive, flat out honest with her, pay attention to her, provide her with everything she needs, everything she wants. Everything she wants but doesn’t really need. Unlimited money. She makes sure what she is buying is worth it. She can return it someday and get her money back. She is a pretty smart girl.

The King is going to buy a Queen for the King. For sale? That’s terrible. I said that? I lied. I missed that.

The middle one has his arm on it, getting her away from number three. Get away from him, huh? Think I will stand there with someone holding that damn knife far up high? Heck no.

He can have as many Queens as he wants as long as he can afford to keep them. Oh yeah, he has enough. That is a typical father-in-law attitude.

The guy in the middle wins!

She is long gone.

The other one isn’t moving.

Do we want this end?

No.

Let’s leave them in suspense. We have to wait until the next episode to find out what happens.

Gretchen, Evelyn, Patricia, June, Barbara, Alice

Aren’t you ashamed killing an animal like that he is so pretty?

2011-04-15T22:17:00.001-07:00

Aren’t you ashamed killing an animal like that he is so pretty?

Honey. I didn’t know you were gonna use it. The head looks awfully small in here.

It looks like a real dog. Up by the riverside, down by the river side. (singing)

The face looks like a dog. Yes…Yes. It looks like it’s doing a real dog.

I don’t know I feel sorry for the animals. But it doesn’t feel like a real dog. This looks like a real dog’s face. Look at this!!! It’s so pretty. I can’t get over hurting for him.

Don’t you feel bad for shooting a dog like that.

Love me or love my animal. Good Golly I don’t know.

It’s a penguin. I might be wrong.

Penguin. Penguin. Penguin.

A real… whatever it is. Looks too much human. I think it is a person. Yes. It’s a human. It’s a girl, I don’t know though. It looks like a penguin in the back. It’s a peculiar picture. Looks like her ear is sticking out. But I have to have a live animal, I have been like that my entire life. I can’t stand seeing an animal killed. I think the reason I feel that way is that I had dogs or cats around us so much and if one of them dies we all would cry like kids. That’s my problem. A dog is a beautiful animal, I couldn’t kill them.

You killed them? I would never killed my dogs.

Eat a dog? Oh god no? Not ever.

We had a dog and cat that lived together. And they always smelled each other’s food to make sure it’s okay and then they smelled each other’s food.

Really? The dog and the cat?

I don’t know what they put underneath her it looks like a chair.

My father was German and he loved animals, oh my god. And he was always after us, who is doing this to the dog?! No kidding? Who is doing this to the cat/ no kidding?! He was European and he was always getting after us.

I had a cat.

We played with our animals. Slept in bed with us a lot of them or under them. We had our missy.

It’s wonderful to have. Missy, our dog was named missy… Missy. And the dog and the cat slept together and they were like twins, and the dog would come in and fall asleep and put her head on his shoulder. It was good.

Is the dog a boy?

You would know if it is a male or a female.

This isn’t a real dog??... Oh… Down by the river side (music)

She is hiding something. I don’t know what type of plants those are I can’t remember but I can’t remember what they had. But they really fixed it up so that she is hiding. I couldn’t kill an animal if I tried. No way Josẻ.

Kissing, oh I am just kidding. They looked at each other to see if the food was good enough and then they would swap. We were scared of our father German that he was. We cried when we had to leave them. Never did happen again. We had to move so far. We were moving from Florida to the west, and we couldn’t feed them and I cried across the United States. My father said we couldn’t take them with us.

What happened to my animals. Have they been…

When my father came in from work the first thing he would look at were the dishes and the animals. I would never get that.

That looks like a dog with her , and he is behind him and they are both looking at the water. And there is a blanket … OH MY GOD!!! It’s a basket!!!

The animals are member of this family.

Don’t lose it.

That is a girl kissing an animal of some sort sitting on a darn chair.

You didn’t get to go play anymore, not that day you didn’t. feed the animals and feed the book. We had two to three animals at a time.

I am watching the girl I don’t know what you’re watching. Looks like a penguin in a way but it isn’t there is too much hair. Oh My God.

Animals, that’s all it takes.

I don’t know I was trying to look and thinking about that. It can’t be a wolf.

He’s got pretty white feet, legs and nose. Looks like a wastebasket she is sitting on. It looks like a basket full of something. The question is what?

Were you looking at this.

Wastebacket. Washbacket!!! They got all weeds around it. Yes! and I can’t see anything that is not!! And all that hair and stuff and this looks like a real…

Were they orange colored on the top or were they.

Flowers.. I don’t… I don’t. I wasn’t into flowers.

And they are piled around the washbasket or the weeds.

I wasn’t a flower girl.

Looks like a washtub to me you know with the flowers. There might be some water in there.

Let me pray on it. Ooooooohhhhhh right there. Turned his head away and doesn’t k now It. He doesn’t have a woman’s breath and doesn’t know better.

What a lovely couple. There are two plants

I put two together. There is a hang onto, and you ought to show them to a lot of people.

E is for effort. Oh no never mind I AM KIDDING. Looks like there is a wolf coming back in, it doesn’t quite look like a dog. I think you know more about it than I do.

I don’t know… Too Happy. But the wolf is really kissing the girl and is covering the wastebasket… or the washbasket… with boards… and there are the yellow flowers. I remember them as a child and how to do it but I don’t know how to do it anymore. I just enjoy it.

I have kept dogs traveling and I was behind the typewriter all the time beating the heck all the time. And my dog would be waiting at time. And he was a lazy dog trying to sleep all the time. And we bought another dog as fast as we could when we got to Europe. It took us maybe twenty minutes or something like that.

It’s a leading say-dee-low-er. It’s a very good pet. The people that own it love it. He does anything he wants to do, but he doesn’t bite people, because we have petted him and spoiled him and spoiled him and spoiled until he thinks people all like us.

When he just started, he was small. But now look at him. He is a hotel and an automobile. I used to pick him up, and he was a doll. The people first pick him up. The dog could have been in their own yard, and they walked out and saw the dog. I didn’t bring my dog.

I was just going to call. I am awful upset. My dog is in the car. Where is my car? I am mixed up and confused.

He just walked in our yard and we started playing with him. Does he bite? Oh no. The people that were there went off somewhere else, maybe to a restaurant. They all got in their own cars. T-tops. We can have the dog for dinner, if he will wait.

We have a wild stab of imagination. Everyone has a different story.

The girl came from a town down the road. She looks like she is about twenty. The wolves are looking for some food and for some attention. The girl doesn’t have any food. What is she going to do? Go to church. She can explain to the wolves that she doesn’t have any food. If they are close enough to touch nose to nose, then they will understand. I talk to my dog and he understands. But this wolf doesn’t understand. He is just going to lick her face. I don’t give a damn what anyone else says. That is the way I see it.

My phone is on a telepole. Are they going out tonight? There’s two more. They are going to go behind a restaurant and find food. There’s food everywhere.

Written by Barbara, Betsy, Dorothy, Alice, Kyle, Evelyn, and Gretchen

The girls does more than those kinds of hats

2011-04-15T21:58:00.000-07:00

It’s a cat. He’s going for a walk to stay on out. Out. If he didn’t he would die. We never think of pets. He needs to get out, but they don’t. They don’t see a horse or fairy. They don’t come up. I don’t think so, a lot. They know when they want one. It’s like they soon, as around, bang, and stop him. No, don’t stop the cat.

He’s going to get the bird. When he gets the bird, he’s going to play with it. Play. His name is Pussy. [Laughter]

Her tail is straight up, which means she is attentive to something. They are more.

I guess he is lifting his head. That’s Alright.

I didn’t want the cat’s.

I live her now but I was watching other locations and all.

They got more at my house than there. Ya, because there. Not the cutest cat. [points at the bird]

Well… [shakes hands] it has to be doing something.

The cat running through there. He’s sitting looking for scrap.

The girls does more than those kinds of hats. It’s better than the first one you show.

Outside of schoolhouse.

Betsy, she probably don’t even think about it. Aloose. Because not careful about what is going on while she is working.

She’s teach third or fourth grade. She doesn’t care that much. it’s just a part of her working habits.She’s really young. She probably figures that is the way it goes.She probably doesn’t pay attention to what is going on?She is probably thinking that book is the best book to pick.

She’s new. I think so too. Near calulu I think.. I think… I would like it… he would like it. That fell on it, and this here is from here. No, he did, it. Just the yes…yes. Onsavasive.

Keep my fingers crossed.

I don’t need it right now. It’s silly…Oh, you can’t have it until two two, no six, because girls want the six. Because you always wanted to do that one, and I did do it. Good with face. You need to get home. You can put it down now. Ya, I don’t know. They can’t even have…ya.

She sure is. What? Ya, Okay.

You don’t have the decorate it when I get there. She too eats. She'll have too one has she once she.Must not be a good picture because she is doing her business there and eating there too. Happy.Happy Happy. Happy. But it’s on the scare right behind ya. Why are you walking all over my suit. That is not nice either. There is one more.

Kitty.

I don’t think it is a thing to see. It’s not sanitary. Well it’s because it’s walking around there and crapping around there. To me it is not sanitary. The cat is right behind there with the bottom nice and straight. You can’t tell me how to dress. You’re bossing me around!! That’s not nice!!!!

Why don’t you go someplace else!! Why don’t you come over here and take over if that is what you want to do!! I can just go back to class. If you are so noisy. Get off of my clothes!!!!! Sorry I didn’t see that there. This belongs to me and you are so noisy and you need to appreciate other people’s things. I’m cold all the time.

Ya, that’s scary.

You gotta button down.too many of them working on that field, she is messing them up for ya. Why don’t you get her out there and participate, she is the one being noisy. And this is yours, and this is a rabbit. I don’t want her in the house. It’s a good thing to know what is going on. Because of those other customers. She’s a pain in the ass if I you don’t mind my saying so.

Why don’t you go over there with her instead of us. She is reading everything you do. Do you know what I would do. I would put test first first, then I would leave it and put it back there. Do you want this one? It’s a mouse, it took that long.

[Betty raises her hand in smack] smart aleck!

You are nosy as hell!!! You don’t have any kids in school and you don’t know what you are doing?

There he is.

Why don’t you go someplace else! Why don’t you go on!!

You are doing your job that is the main thing. That’s what they are … everything. They are out in the country in a puddle doing something, I have nothing to say about that. It would with all animals. There are three other companies working behind there shitting everywhere and they couldn’t find us.

You don’t know about that because you can’t get into things. Doesn’t have enough? Oh, okay. The same girl, she is going to notice that too. I am not one to judge. Spring. Her score is pretty bad I thought. She won’t even give us a chance to look at it, she is looking at it herself. It is not right as far as I am concerned. She is noisy and being a pain in the ass.

She is trying to decide if she should catch the bird or let it go. She is staring. She can’t see the cat. The cat is not there. She is looking at a book of drawings. She has a serious look on her face, because she can’t read it. She is just pretending to read it. The book is half way open, which means she must have started it some time ago. She has been there for a long time.

The book has pictures of fire. There are pictures of animals. She already has a cat, so now she wants to see what a dog looks like.

Pussycat will go see the girl, maybe.

The bird is on the fence, trying to stay away from the cat. There’s some space in between. The bird is chirping. The cat hears the bird.

In between the cat and the bird are fishing poles. It is just growing there, too stiff, too young, leftover from what was there before. The people are on a lakeshore. The cat belongs to them. It’s too well fed. That is why he hasn’t jumped the robin. He isn’t interested in eating it.

She knows she has a cat, but I don’t know if she knows this is taking place. The light is all around her. She doesn’t need it to read the book, she needs it to have her picture taken. There’s more in the book than just watching a cat chase a bird. This is the cat-in-the-hat. The bird can fly away way faster than the cat can jump. That’s a big heavy cat. He is not going to be limber.

The whole book goes together. She is scared. She sees something.

She’s not scared! There is no fright there at all! Just shadows on her forehead. She’s damn bored looking at that damn book and that damn cat.

It’s just a textbook. A schoolbook to hold up to her face. The book is exciting. If it was exciting, then the cat would be crouched down, ready to attack. But he’s not. He’s saying, “Get the hell out!” He is too heavy and fat to catch it. He has nothing to do.

The girl just somebody they knew. They said hold the book up and act like you are interested in a cat chasing a bird. She was just over there. They said, “Hey look at the cat.” Then she picked up a book. I don’t know why she would pick up a book to look at the cat, if the cat is out the window. How can she see out the window when she is over there looking at a book.

Written by Barbara, Betty, Patricia, June, Alice, Kyle, Evelyn, and Dot

The Baby's Name is Floyd

2011-03-31T06:20:00.000-07:00

The baby’s name is Floyd. You can get that anytime. She’s cute. Oh look at that little face. That is so cute. There’s two of them there with the baby. It must be mother and father. Three.

That’s what they do with weather. Outside. That’s why I wanted to do this. They can’t use out there. They are normal just like that. That’s how they are right there. They brought the baby and everything is OK. They are in the woods, but they don’t have a cute little fancy wood. He’s leaning against…

Three.

That’s my dad’s name, Floyd. Maybe the baby is related to my dad. They are strange to us because we give them names.

They are having a good day, and they brought something with them, but we don’t know how they brought those things or where they are. And of course they brought food. What kind of food? A baby.

Three.

They know that they are so so. I don’t know how it is going to happen.

Floyd wants his eyes. Did you see?

Babies and eyelids. They give a few. Just one higher I think. I should keep my mouth, I guess. I would not go that far. We are here. You are here. They are not here. I don’t know how far.

Three.

Just shut it off. I wouldn’t do that stuff. Just do what you need.

Floyd ran right up to me. He was doing something with his hands. He said something to me, but I don’t know what he said.

Let me help the sweet little guy. It would have been done. Until after. Did he look at something else? I’ve been going on for 25. Thanks for helping me.

He said, “I dropped it.”

I said, “I’ll help you.”

He said, “No, I can do it.”

I said, “Ok.”

He said, “I can’t reach it.”

I said, “I’ll help you.”

He said, “No, I can do it.”

He dropped a five-dollar bill. That’s pretty important for a kid. He was running all around, looking for it. And he asked his mother about it. Then he said, “I see it.”

I better follow him around. If he was six foot two then I might be interested. I’m pretty tall. These parents shouldn’t let him run around the woods. They need to stay close. They better shape up, move close, get a hold of him, take his hand.

There are three.

There’s no danger. He has pretty multicolor socks on, and that way they can see him in the forest. In the city they keep the forest clean and safe for babies. There could be dangerous animals. The baby is going to take off. If the father will move off that tree and use his long legs to run and catch the child. The way he is standing, it looks like part of his head is on the tree. It is part of the tree. He starts crying and his dad comes and gets him off the tree. He is a good man.

You don’t have a little baby running around out here in the yard do you? A man, and a lady way in the back looks like a poster or somethin’ Lota trees, there just letting the baby girl, I’m not sure, running around in the forest or whatever you call it.

[click noises]

Look at the baby. It’s a girl. All i would say with a child is just as I have a happy, sad, and all a happy home. His mother met and is very caring and has as they go up. Me and the baby…people perhaps that it comes a year up a lot of time. And a year, a year, a year, and another and another and another. So that they have life and so that they can get big and not a bad runaway.

Just write like this.

[do do do do do do do do do]

Just finish finish finish.

We had away from here, we were my husband was it’s a… um… he belonged to the… He’s gone. He has one but I don’t know where it is. It’s the same baby. Well it’s ready to come in passing and it doesn’t want to stay. They can’t handle him. He’s a little boy. He's been gone forever I bet you he’s gone.

His eyes are open real…

It’s a girl it looks like. It has it’s mouth open. The parents are behind him make sure he’s safe and running around. Looks like a little girl with a ribbon and bow on top. I think she is a sweet little girl, but she has her mouth open so she could be a little yaynay

Well when you have your mouth open little girls don’t do that they [start dancing] do that with their mouth closed. They are just standing their watching her and to me if they are the parents’ and she is running loose in the woods then that is not very good parenting.

Two Birds!!!!

I don’t know if that is a ribbon, or if it is a reflection. She is perty, and so is her parents. I don’t know if that is a ribbon or a short little tree behind her. When she is about sixteen. Or they would cry. The girls do, girls are very fine and very fine and very fine. Evan. That would be her parents.

Yes……..But……. they are in the woods, and if they take her out of the woods then she would have a girl’s name. and put a dress on her.

Here is the little girl in the woods, with a pretty face with hair with Mommy and Daddy. It looks like she comes up to the waist of the daddy She is liable to have guys around her. You don’t know what guys are going to do. Sure everyone dos what you don’t.

Rachel!!! Yes!!! Rachel. Rachel. Oh, Rachel. Were should be a lot be were. My we, … Meh. June! Roberta!!! Rota!!!

Is that you in the forest. Leaning against the tree and she has her arm around her waist. Well, you’re leaning against the tree

I just wanted to put my finger on your forehead. Forehead….Fullhead…. Forehead!!!!

Ya! To take his temperature. How was he when you is a baby.

Parents are behind her to make sure no one disturbs her. He was in the forest he was kind of… giosh I am not one to go out in the forest… but a… he is leaning against the tree. Being lasy. Men are lazy.

We don’t know where they live. A girl wants more. Who is the momma? Ya, because you have to have a momma with a little baby. Who gots more the boy or the…that is not true because the boy…there are both…they both are. It’s not fun for a girl to not have a father.

I was looking at that green grass and it is so pretty. Looks like they are really guarding her, and she has her arm around her and he has his arm around her. They better be together to have a little girl, if not then you would go bop them on the noes. It is just one and just ya… and they could be sitting in the Gazebo under the grass.

You’d better find a cure or I will haunt you for the rest of your life.

Her hair, with curls and or just the right and right and because two or a manly man and just manly man as girls, and sure that is the one. But they are both great.

How old is, how are the boy. Swear the boys. Little girl in a tutu, but really. Look at the mommy and daddy and she is really cute. It’s funny because they didn’t have a boy but they had a boy and the boy is a girl. It looks like a boy but she is a girl. The easiest sure is boy…girl… and it isn’t well some but I’ll let you go.

Right but they really don’t want they are a boy but they are a girl, but they are a girl thinking about a boy. I think that the girl is really good, and that the little boy is beautiful, beu. And that is beautiful like the tide. That’s what I think.

I'm glad because they are both right and it looks like when you are about a boy and a boy, they are both.

You have beautiful eyes. Has anyone ever told you that. You don’t have [high pitched voice] oh pretty little boy!!! You got to have one to have the other. You don’t have a boy or a boat, or both, if you did then you never have them. She wants a new place… No!! No!!! Plays!!! A Dress!!!

Don’t you get those eyes on drawn on the. Here comes men...and don’t have to be [makes revving car engines sound] You Did!!! And here is this place here. If you look like a girl then you look like a boy that looks like a girl. Can you come in?

The little girl, girls get curly, and comb, no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no. so, but.

Written by: Jane, Lavern, Patricia, Betty, Ann, Alice, Anne, June, Evelyn, Kyle

It could be a Betty like Me

2011-03-16T20:13:00.000-07:00

Isn’t that cute.

The little girl is just sitting there. Just sitting there looking at the other picture and writing on the blackboard. She’s really small. It could be a Betty like me.

Someone set her down and left there. Her mother and daddy left her with a babysitter while they did some errands in town and when they cam back she was gone, they had to look all over town, they found her a day and a half later, they didn’t know she was that smart. Children are strange they can hide how smart they are.

She has one little pigtail.

Kids don’t care they want to go and do things, so it’s hard to tell where they went.

Perfect. No she’s got a bareback. They don’t know how long she’s been lost. We’re lost and don’t know where we are going. They took her home. They were just questioning. She was frightened, because being alone and not being alone and so on. Someone wanted to take her home that was walking by, a stranger. The person that found her was very happy. They were very happy in taking her home and I don’t think they succeeded or not. They were walking. Strangers to her.

A man. A woman. I imagine that they would be because I would wait in the store for thirty minutes. I don’t even remember because I was kind of young myself. By decent who really wanted to know and wanted to help her.

You can talk to kids and find out a whole lot of things.

Would you like to come with me to my home

She is very time and hadn’t known a lot of people yet.

Are they happy? she was lucky that she picked up by someone who was nice.

She was very happy and was probably hungry too I imagine. She didn’t talk to them they made motions because she was very small, that she was happy about the change in front of her.

She’s in a diaper, she is wearing blue pants and a yellow shirt , her hair is one pigtail with one light green ribbon in her hair with a piece of chalk in her hand drawing a flower with a flower around it. Thee rest of the pictures were there, the kitty cat, the face.

She drew this and this and that is it all the rest was done by someone else. She did the flower. She can’t be walking far because she is small. Her underpants is green and yellow, There is nothing but half a a fac.

That is a kitty cat with half a body of something coming after it there is another kitty cat and there is an airplane. She had little tiny legs and she has shoes on so she is wlaking along. She was walking away from the person she was tih and found something else to do.

When your child you don’t think what it is you think about where you are going to go, because I’m not good with child again. She is back again but I don’t know how she did it.

I would try to find the mother and father, I’m a favorite of kids especially that small.

She is in a dreamy mood and she is getting her imagination together.

Has she noticed the cat there? I don’t see that she has.

I would like to know what they wrote about her, and what they saw of her and asked her and what kind of questions, and how she answered them.

She is not too small because her legs are pretty stable you see that.

See there different types of planting, according to what her family would be doing. Wandering where she is.

She did her hair all by herself by combing and braiding.

She is little there but she is not a little baby, she is in between.

They got Simon on the very top what likes like what was going to say taxi but there is a t and a blank and a x and a blank, and there is a kitty cat, there is a kitty cat, and there is a little thing that snows,and a little bit of grass around the girl.

There is a name that says Anna, may be she did it.

Simon… S-I-M-O-N and she is just scribbling, one little pigtail

She is small for her age with little shoes and she can walk

I am the only one who has color on mine, she has pretty blond hair with a long pigtail coming coming from the top of her hair with a dark blue or green ribbon. She just went down to sit was going on and she was writing ans start scribbling

She doesn’t know how to write because she is not that old.

They just left her there to play and left there to do their business they wouldn’t tag them around there, it’s not safe, they left here there to be safe.

Their white English American and very well behaved sitting their very patiently drawing and they left her there knowing that she would be alright

Kids like to do things themselves. Someone is following, that would explain the picture. Someone found her and followed her to see what she was going to do. Poor girl.

That is a nice blackboard too. It is inside the building. Anna went away to look for the cat. I don’ t know I haven’t found him. That’s simon’s name up here. She is not even dressed to be outside and has to be a school building because of the walls. It has to be a man because the little girl isn’t dressed right.

Not everybody has a blackboard in there house.

Is Simon the baby?

He got away from them, he is close by. I would say he is in the same room, For very young children who aren’t even in school yet. This even a window because it is a drop window. That looks like a suitcase right there. Simon is in a different school room for children that are not even in school yet. His cat, I don’t know what this is. Is this flowers?

She is thinking about the other things that would go with them.

She Is too little to think about drawing, I imagine she is about six. Someone took their finger and erased some of the picture on the chalkboard.

She got tired and sat down and started writing there. That’s are kids are. They are rattled and going on doing something without thinking about what it is. She goes through one thing to the next without even thinking about it.

She will go after the cat. It’s trying to keep away from the child. That’s a dog face. A cat’s face is much smaller while a dog’s face is much bigger and more solid. Somebody erased it because they has an idea. Park a airplane. She just hadn’t gotten down to drawing it yet. God knows. I wouldn’t of predicted any of this from her.

When have they been outside to see an airplane in the air. She got a kitty cat I can contribute that to her. This one and that one. And some flowers with some weeds. But she didn’t write those two names, she wouldn’t know how to spell No one is there, she is by herself.

She is only about 18 months. Old. A Doll.

She wouldn’t be walking out in front of one to something is outside, it is a school of sometime with a blackboard. I imagine it is one that is not a public school,

I was six years old before he started school, about five or six. Don’t take my picture. Her head I kind of big for a child that is small. How old would her age to be?

Anna went to go and find her cat which was peaceful which was trying to stay from the little one.

Simon is in charge. He keeps the chalk going. Anna will be back later. She thinks she is really busy right now. A machine is flying but I don’t know where the wings are. The story has no end, because there are too many echos.

Written by Joetta, Patricia, Betsy, Barbara, Betty, Kyle, Alice