EternalHeart’s BINGO Card
1. Guild Gear
This outfit is inspired by ease of movement whether walking along the shore or participating in a protest. Layers to allow me to remain day>night, a camelback so I have water & snacks to share, as well as space to carry my notebook and little treasures I find.
2. Lists
This was actually pretty challenging, but here’s a link to my GoodReads Ebbie list (only books on my “Read” pile so far, but I’m having fun with this challenge, so hope to tag more later)
Jessi’s 'ebenguard' books on Goodreads (852 books)
3. Places (images are of real places, but found on the internet)
I actually have 2, both of which I have been to and loved, but have not been to in many many years. The first is a quarry behind the house I grew up in. You can find some great images on this website: https://danstacklebox.com/214-milford-quarry.html. I learned to swim here, and hung out with friends, and met Oreiads for the first time. The second is Forrest River Park in Salem, MA, particularly the rocky outcropping in this picture https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/forest-river-park-salem?select=CtWQzua_EKmt_lofYNJVAQ&utm_campaign=www_photo_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct). I spent hours here during college. There are even a few rocks that you can’t see in that picture which would be cut off from the shore when the tide came in - deep enough that you’d need to swim were you caught, but not so far or fierce you’d be unable to make it.
4. Magimystic Memory
This has seriously been the hardest entry for me. Like @Ginger, my life seems to be made up of Ebbie experiences and actions. I don’t want to half-ass this though…
Something that immediately comes to mind is from when I was in elementary school. It was 4th grade when kids start really forming cliques and the idea of “cool kids” is really starting to formulate. I’d just been ditched by all of my friends and I realized I was not a cool kid. In fact, I was nothing. I don’t recall the specifics, this was more than 30 years ago, but I remember being sad and knowing that I’d been dealt a raw deal. Somehow, someway, I found new friends. But they were, in all honesty, less cool than me. One was S, a girl in Special Ed; these were the days when kids with learning and developmental disabilities only joined their classmates for gym, music, and lunch, with maybe the odd clas where they were “close enough” to join everyone else. S was not “close enough” in any of the academic classes and was a HUGE outcast. I needed a friend though, and she reached out to me, and I took her up on it. The other was B, someone who seemed to be going down a similar path as I was. B didn’t speak to anyone until 4th grade. She was extremely bright but so very shy that she didn’t really have any friends, and she was heading down a similar path as I was in losing her friends.
I have continued to collect some of the “odder” people I come across in my life, building a network of people who also need someone who understands what it’s like to be outside and knows that the reasons are BS.
5. Elementals
I have plenty of “tidal” items - shells, corals, etc. But none of them really call to me as The Tides. I’ve been thinking for a while and reading through the description repeatedly. Last night, I realized that I wear my representation every day - it’s my 7-circuit labyrinth pendant! I took the labyrinth as my spiritual symbol about 10 years ago; a labyrinth has a single path leading to a single purpose, but you can’t see what’s up ahead, and you loop back upon yourself, but never in quite the same way. One cannot get lost in a labyrinth as they can in a maze, so must always be moving forward; even if “forward” is really “backwards” toward the entrance. And isn’t the center of the labyrinth reminiscent of a Well?
6. Mood Board
