This is an closeup of the consecration site. The four pebbles are in a line on the gold cloth I brought from Christ Church.
The ribbon has colors that are privately meaningful to Anna and me.
The site is just down the hill from the last previous photo (#2).
There are little trails around this smallish hill and it is an abandoned homeless camp [abandoned is what I thought until I heard someone watching our ceremony.] Kiota was intimately linked with the homeless in Olympia at the end of her life and was partway through interviewing many of them, and making and editing a documentary film about them. So, besides the Valley Of The Ghosts, this is also a creative site.
Going from L to R: Pebble 1 is for all those who visited Ki through all of her sites across each of the years she was on; Pebble 2 is for about fifteen LJ Friends whom I knew were closer to her than most of the hundreds she Friended. Each of these pebbles are from opposite sides of Lake Champlain [NY and VT] where I grew up. Pebble 3 is from China and celebrates Kiota's relationship with a very special girl at Evergreen whose privacy I want to protect. Pebble 4 is for me, from Dorm A at Evergreen, at the last place where we hugged before the taxi took me off to the airport on April 11.
The ribbon has colors that are privately meaningful to Anna and me.
The site is just down the hill from the last previous photo (#2).
There are little trails around this smallish hill and it is an abandoned homeless camp [abandoned is what I thought until I heard someone watching our ceremony.] Kiota was intimately linked with the homeless in Olympia at the end of her life and was partway through interviewing many of them, and making and editing a documentary film about them. So, besides the Valley Of The Ghosts, this is also a creative site.
Going from L to R: Pebble 1 is for all those who visited Ki through all of her sites across each of the years she was on; Pebble 2 is for about fifteen LJ Friends whom I knew were closer to her than most of the hundreds she Friended. Each of these pebbles are from opposite sides of Lake Champlain [NY and VT] where I grew up. Pebble 3 is from China and celebrates Kiota's relationship with a very special girl at Evergreen whose privacy I want to protect. Pebble 4 is for me, from Dorm A at Evergreen, at the last place where we hugged before the taxi took me off to the airport on April 11.
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Again, it's so personal and so meaningful. Still reading backwards...