Famules

 

We lived together when I was young.

One Dead with Broom, Two Living. The living are okay with this photo’s presence on the Internet. Teresa D Hawkes, Ph.D., Old Picture Archives.

We were a famule — Families who cohabit and become images of each other at times.

Even if we didn’t have a famule, we all had a mom and dad, didn’t we, at least in terms of gametes,

which doesn’t mean we had a famule,

we just needed gametes from both to get on this Earth,

didn’t we? And we did.

I also lived in the image age. Photos were the queen and king of my memory. They connected me to the past through film and Polaroids (google, ‘polaroid’) from early on, which I could do myself. All this

An, “I could sit up and look regal’ Photo. Old England, 1957. Teresa D Hawkes, Ph.D., Old Picture Archives.

by the time I was born. Do talk about the movie 8mm’s and others. We did segue into videos easily made and distributed by the time I was old (I am 66 now).

So good. Food of a sort I ate to keep alive and glowing.

I also had the internet! These were my digital famule which we all created together,

which I also loved, hated, irritated, and laughed with,

etc.

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