“human” gone awry

@erricuda.bsky.social

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I like to mend things and knit/crochet useful or fun things. I care deeply about almost everything. Ready to go but also…can’t. Irreverent but kind. Just the way I like it.

A small disheveled child with wild brown long hair sweeping all in front of their face, seated on a garishly 1970s medallion-print fabric couch, wearing bright red knee socks and a polyester floral nightgown. There is brown wood paneling on the wall behind. The child is intently inspecting a new Clown Calliope Cab toy in the package in one hand, and awkwardly still grasping the wrapping paper in the other hand. There is a new hula hoop and a new Mickey Mouse Space Quiz calculator toy in the box on the couch beside them. It’s Christmas morning.
A yellow and grey Sony Walkman from the early 1990s and a set of earbud type headphones that I think used to have a metal headband that broke off, but I can’t quite remember. This Walkman was part of the Sony Sports line and was water resistant. Mine played A Tribe Called Quest’s Midnight Marauders album almost endlessly.
Three pieces of an in-progress knitted sweater, front piece, back piece, and one sleeve almost finished. There are knitted cables and twists and the color of the yarn is Toasty Gray. The pieces are laid out on a rug that is an oatmeal white color with colorful leaf print in greens, yellows, and blues.
A handwritten note printed in pencil on a white 8”x11” paper. It reads: You got me a sloth hat! Everyone liked it! Aunty Erica you are the best beacause of your heart! from Chloe (Chloe is in attempted cursive writing) There is a drawing of a heart and a round headed ghostly looking thumb-like being smiling with wide eyes. Along the left hand margin, printed upward, reads: I loved the sloth hat! “Also the candy” (with a small drawn heart at the end). The right margin has an afterthought added, written in pink marker: “Thank you Uncle Tommy to”.
A young child in 1986 at her 6th birthday party, her light brown hair in two pigtail braids. She’s smiling and looking at the camera over the top of her pink eyeglasses perched halfway down her nose. She’s at a table in the backyard. The table is covered in a plastic cloth, napkins, paper plates, plastic spoons, and orange plastic disposable cups. She has a hoodsie ice cream cup in front of her. Her chocolate frosted cake with a big orange 6 written in frosting is diagonally in front of her. The candles on the cake are lit.
An empty brushed chrome wall mounted toilet paper holder mechanism with a center lever arm that lifts to load on a roll, with genius ease and fashion.
The inimitable cherub of Oak Island, Billy Gerhardt, wearing an orange and yellow safety vest and a hard hat, standing by the trees and probably getting ready to use The Force to lift a giant mysterious boulder (that is not pictured here but stands in front of him).
Knitting work in progress cable knit/lace shawl in color grey (pattern is Soft Current Shawl from Wool & Pine)
Light grey fabric with dark grey, gold, and white stripes getting a hand sewn a patch
A rock painted half red half black and white zig zag, symbolic of Twin Peak’s Black Lodge
Knots and imperfections sort of mirrored together in a seam on a wood plank from my cabinet
1970s toddler child wearing red checkered shorts with a Big Bird t shirt and an upside down plastic bucket as a hat, arms spread out wide to the sides and dead serious expressionless face