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[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Wish we could have you over for dinner one night this week. Marian and Brenna always take to my friends like magnets.

Big hugs.

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

the top one especially I like

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

I like that it captures some of the essence of both their personalities.

Brenna, on the left, is a good-natured tease, the more social of the two. She is nimble and creative.

As a budding preteen Marian likes to pretend that she doesn't care, affecting a giddy girlishness. But the first photo caught her guard down, hinting at how curious and determined she really is. I enjoy both aspects. Marian and I have had some good laughs together this summer, and that's the story I wanted to tell with the second frame.

[stephe.livejournal.com]

I may just be imagining things here, but in the top picture, is that a tattoo on Marian's left arm, just at the crook of the elbow?

Not really

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

She likes to draw ink tattoos on her arm. Often she writes things in Sindarin, Tolkien's script. In this case it is the trinity symbol, apparently used by POD, one of her favourite bands.

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[stephe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking. I actually see a lot of those ink tattoos on girls arond Marian's age when I substitute teach. I think it's a way to combat boredom.

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[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. I think it's also a way of expressing herself, her individuality and a mild rebellion against the norms. The trinity symbol represents her favourite band. When she writes in Sindarin, she usually writes a translation of her name. She is exploring her identity.

In the spring she tried dyeing her hair with bingo markers. The colours last a couple of weeks.

These are safe ways of experimenting with changes which otherwise she might regret.

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[stephe.livejournal.com]

I should have been more specific: when the students starts drawing on thgemselves in each other in class, it's probably a sign of boredom.

By the way, cool pictures. Your photographs of your daughters really do transmit some of the force of their personalitites.

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[stephe.livejournal.com]

Part of that should have read: "when the students start drawing on themselves and each other." I'm feeling kind of dopey right now, for no good reason.

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[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure boredom has something to do with it, too. :-)

I'm glad you like the pics, thank you.