Aanii

[spacegirl]

I half considered giving this message a funny title like "greetings earthlings", but that would be too over the top, it would carry a pretentiousness I dont mean. But to avoid a boring "hello", I used a hello from a random language. Not really random. If you figure which one, the choice is a clue to me.

I am old and boring though, except in the universe of my hopes and dreams, most of which have yet to become reality. What is reality is having a physical condition with negative health impacts, which some people might tend to label as "intersex". But in my hopes and dreams I'd be normal and loved by at least half of everyone. I'd also be wandering amongst the stars, but that's a different story. Maybe in my next life, if I must live again. No more dimension 11b's for me.

I shouldn't complain,it's not gracious. They say other people have things worse.

I'll figure out how to do an avatar and proper signature, eventually. For now I hope it's not wrong to paste this in as a sig.
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Mother life, hold firmly on to me.
Catch my knowledge higher than the day.

[Aseras]

Old and boring are relative. Ojibwe? I'm a bit Cherokee. My grandmother was a Boone. I had a full blooded Great Great Grandmother on her side. I love my dreams, I live there. Most of my dreams are quite lucid and I wish they would spill over into this unfair world.

I hope we can help you somehow, all of us seem to share a similar journey. Maybe we are supposed to get more out of this life or maybe we all just got a more interesting ride to darkness. Could have been worse.

[Laura Robison]

Welcome, Spacegirl. :) I'm glad you're here.

I found it:
Aanii is a greeting in Anishinaabemowin, the language of the Anishinaabe nation, which is one of the oldest and most historically important Native American languages in North America.

[Dianne]

Boozoo. Bindigin!

Okay, now that I have exhausted my memory for my rusty Ojibwa, WELCOME! :mrgreen:

[spacegirl]

Hey Aseras. Maybe the easiest way anyone can help is relieving loneliness some, and that's a favor I could return. And dreamings are good for the spirit.

Thank you Laura and Dianne for the enthusiastic welcomes.

There are full ancestry'd people around, but I'm not so pure. And I grew up in the 'burbs, living with my uncle and hs family. They raised me as their own, never told me I wasn't theirs. Except they never did so well at loving me the same as their own.

I've known one half-ancestry'd family who spent half their growing years on their tribal res with their full-ancestry'd mother, and they got the cultural legacy with mostly everyone saying they have fair claim to call themselves as first peoples' as they want to be.

But I never lived through my own personal cultural upbringing. I'd feel like I was disrespecting a lot of people if I made any claims about myself. Just because maybe I fit some people's expectations isn't enough to give me a claim unless I had one already. Maybe it's only ok as a clue to hint at as an ice breaker at forums?

[Aseras]

Yes it is, It's why I'm here, trying to save someone else some of the trouble I've been through. I decided to climb out from under the rock I was hiding under denying it all. Part out of frustration and some from altruism. Maybe I'd get some help, and help some others along the way?

Used to be tribes were open and accepting, Then casino's came along and everyone wanted a piece, and it seems big government mentality showed up and it all got political. I'm only 29 and I still remeber when it was much more open visiting the reservation to look thing up in the libraries and records. I only have a passing relation. I know little of the culture, but it is an interesting part of my history and I'd like to know more without feeling like an outcast or a intruder and that's the vibe you get these days often enough.

I'm a typical american mutt. some germanic and irish and scandinavain and cherokee. I'm unique and I'm proud of it. Each little bit makes us who we are. The whole pure mentality is kinda annoying and dumb.

I hope the ice is broken now. If you need anyhting I think you'll find a lot of good people here now and then as people pass by.

[The Female Eunuch]

Tena Koe Spacegirl!

(that's hello in the dialect of Maori spoken in Southern New Zealand, where I come from)

[spacegirl]

Female Eunuch wrote:
> Tena Koe Spacegirl!
>
> (that's hello in the dialect of Maori spoken in Southern New Zealand,
> where I come from)

Tena Koe!
It's fun learning new words and things. Thank you.

Aseras wrote:
> Used to be tribes were open and accepting, Then casino's came along and
> everyone wanted a piece, and it seems big government mentality showed
> up and it all got political.

Yeah, there's that. I'd been thinking though maybe there's also the percieved need to resist assimilation and hopefully find a cultural rebirth, when they're faced with a lot of partial- first peoples' who don't really appreciate what was and don't have enough sensitivity to avoid disrespecting others. And then there's writers like Lynn Andrews who come along, trying to weave fantasies around what they think are the exciting parts of native ways, making out like she was so more special.

[Kailana]

hiya spacegirl, hope the post title doesnt offend, i was about to say No aliens allowed.

Then I realized that could be taken as a mean statement so Spacegirls are more then welcome and you know, might just make the world a better place.


I like that your chatty so far. i hope you find BLO a friendly place even though we do argue sometimes just remember we are only pathetic humans and SpaceGirls are much smarter then we are I hope.

[spacegirl]

Once upon a time, there was a folk tale called "The Star Maiden", or sometimes "The Star Woman". Oftentimes ideas can be translated into more than one set of words. But try to borrow it as a username, and in a modern context maiden has a lot of connotations, and anything starting with "star" makes it sound like you're trying to glorify yourself, and "star woman" got ruined by Lynn Andrews anyways.

But going back to what the folk tale meant, it could have been translated to "space girl" just as easy, at the risk of being thought spacey. But a little humor helps the medicine go down.

[Laura Robison]

I like the name Spacegirl and I like your avitar too. :)

[spacegirl]

Laura Robison wrote:
> I like the name Spacegirl and I like your avitar too.

Thanks :)
I wish I could say I drew my own avatar. But it was from a really good comic artist I found onlne. He was friendly enough to give me permission to use it.