Today is Epiphany--To Shine Upon (from the Greek epi (upon) + phainein "to show, bring to light," (from PIE root bha- "to shine").
On this day in 1995, bink was saved from death when a car veered into the bus shelter she was standing in, showering her with broken safety glass and tearing up the bus bench, which grazed her front as it came to rest at her feet.
bink was waiting for the bus to go pick up our friend Jim and escort him home from the hospital. Jim was in the end stages of AIDS, right before they came up with effective meds... He would die six weeks later, but that Epiphany was a happy day.
Funniest thing about "epiphany"? It's the root of the name Tiffany! (The "ph" spelled as "ff".)
Isn't that wild? We think of Tiffany as such a Valley Girl name, but its roots are Proto-Indo-European.
I have had a request (thanks, GZ) for a photo of the finished lemon pound cakes. (The yellow towel is woven by Joanne of Cup on the Bus.) I had a slice, and all is well.
I wasn't thinking of Epiphany when I made such a bright cake.
The Mexican panaderias all sell Three Kings Cake today (Epiphany celebrates the arrival of the magi to see baby Jesus).
Work has been brighter lately, with the arrival of Emmler.
Here she is below, looking like an angry badger.
Anger seems to be her go-to emotion, which, frankly, is something of a relief––a zip of lemon––to be around, since depression is more the zeitgeist and certainly the mood of my coworkers. I mean, even the ones who are high--their energy is depressed, in the sense of damped down. Mellow actually isn't my favorite mood because I naturally tend toward sleepy.
Below, L to R: Ass't Man, me, Grateful-J, Emmler
Anger is an energy like fire, and Emmler has been a catalyst --especially to Ass't Man, who has a grumpy earth-mushroom vibe,
and to me, likely to be floating on a blow-up raft in a pool drinking a girly drink with an umbrella.
So along comes a fireball...
The emotion itself is not interesting to me--the point is, with her fire, Emmler MAKES THINGS. Drawings and paintings and constructions and clothes outfits, all the time.
I've been bugging her to show me, to share on IG, and Ass't Man too... and that's starting to happen. We were just talking about maybe doing something together as a trio...
It's not important that we work together, it's just the bouncing around of light that matters.
It's been a long time since I've been around artists--plural--who make things. I mean, not just one at a time, but two others, a tiny group--it's invigorating!
Call me Tiffany.