Sew-Wear
(Sow?-Where?: We must sow. Where there is ground.)
Season One
Episode 2: Do They Really Pop Up In Rows?
(The Second: Take care not to let too many seeds go astray).
Part Two: The Assembly Line
Prologue:
(The first inroad to hooking up with Hedgy was overly spacious. Going into the Student Center at Pratt Institute was for sure ambitious in an outcome that was expected to be met with abundant cooperation. It wasn’t foolish to think as much, but it was nevertheless quite presumptuous. Uoherbhai was right in our discussions in the hotel that ‘everyone or every place has an ‘air’ about what they expect when someone comes into their dominion’.
It is not to be standoffish, but it is simply a ‘telling’ that we’re not going to bow to your expectations. You’re going to bow to ours. That’s not being unfriendly. That’s just being true to the way they do things. Pratt Institute will be respected. Now, Sarah W. Certainty, says to herself. ‘It is nigh time to trust in my people. For they know the ways of things I do not’. Sarah thinks to herself, ‘Did I speak enough like the elders of old where their words were as solid as the ‘rock’ atop an altar’?
Well, Sarah, she says to herself, ‘there is not a document with instructions that tells me step by step how to assemble a bunch of products’. My people will come with a different set of parts. I’ve got to assemble my team. Since there aren’t any lists or manuals, I will use a lot of the, I already know, and the things Mother Sayer has taught me. First, I need to stop being rigid. Be more fluid and flowing with the river. Navigate away from the hazards the river and the shoreline has hidden.).
—————————-Dress the part—————————–
(Janea arrives at the Artezen Hotel and she calls U-Her on her cell number. U-her agrees to come down and greet her.).
Janea: Hello U-Her. The night is settling into something telling. Let’s get prepared for it shall we.
Uoherbhai: I don’t think I fully get what you mean by that? Am I prepared for what you have in store?
Janea: Oh, don’t worry. I want to see first what you all are looking to ‘wear’ tonight that’s all. Let’s go up and put our heads together and see what we can accomplish.
(On top of all the greetings and girly stuff, an intentionally ‘hard’ look was made at what they both were planning to wear tonight out. Janea made some suggestions as far as accessories go. ‘Do you have some boots? Some high heels if not? Maybe a purse that has a chain you can sling over your shoulder’? This kind of talk from Janea was taken in and finally met with an inquisitive response.).
Sarah W. Certainty: What exactly are we dressing like biker chicks for?
Janea: Oh, I’m sorry. I retreat into my mind when I have a task to fulfill when I want a certain result to come out of it. You want to get a feel for Hedgie Fletts right?
Sarah W. Certainty: Right?
Janea: Hedgie is a ‘Goth’ girl. She frequents locations that aren’t exactly legal. You know. Places that don’t exactly have a business license to operate in the city. They are edgy if you know what I mean?
Sarah W. Certainty: Oh, that’s good. You’re taking us somewhere where there is a good chance I will arrive unannounced at the Pearly Gates of Heaven.
Janea: (Janea laughs and comments that’s a good clapback.). No, Sarah, I’m not taking both of you someplace where the gatherers seek physical harm or police trouble.
Sarah W. Certainty: Good. I’m not going to lay in a manger surrounded by farm animals waiting on a vacancy in the Inn.
Janea: (Janea laughs.). You are funny. We’re good to go now.
————————Pot & Psychedelics Party—————————-
(Janea, Sarah and Uoherbhai arrive at a place that seems to be a garbage collection point than a ‘black hole’. A place where people don’t appreciate too much light. Any who, Janea met a friend near the location that told her Hedgie just arrived there. So Janea came back and told us we better hurry before she gets some drugs into her system and Hedgie’s memory of this night will be forever locked in a vault somewhere in her brain.
Sarah tells her lead the way. They get through the door with a couple of eye rolls with money as the ultimate entry code.).
Janea: (Janea spots Hedgie with two other regulars she thinks. My time is the only precious commodity I possess, Janea says to herself. ‘Milks a churning. Butters a making.’.). Ms. Sarah, if you don’t mind. I’ll take lead. I know you don’t have a lot of time, so I’ll work quickly. Be right back.
Sarah W. Certainty: You didn’t get us killed on the sidewalk or coming through that door. Keep my trust girl. Do it.
Janea: Yes boss.
Sarah W. Certainty: (That means exactly what I think it means. She’s auditioning for me. She’s not doing this for this one time. She’s thinking of hooking up with me because she senses I got something more to offer.). That’s right Janea. I expect results. This is, your audition.
Janea: Well now. I see we understand each other. One moment then. (Janea, goes over to talk with Hedgie.).
Hedgie Fletts: (Janea has just called to Hedgie as she was walking up to where she was standing. Some drugs were close by Hedgie’s position, so Janea is well into her reacquaintance spill.). Hello?
Janea: (Janea sees that Hedgie is flipping through metaphorical pages of her memory trying to recognize Janea.). Oh hey girl. I just sit at the front counter in the Student Center. I answer questions and keep all the students straight, on course. At Pratt Institute? I’m Janea. It is advantageous for me to remember names of the students. It helps me help them to remain comfortable. Hey listen, speaking of that. Today, there were some interested business ladies looking for some talented women studying fashion and communication. I want to bring them over now to meet you, just so when they want to set up a meet. Let’s do some intros shall we? (Janea motions over to Sarah and U-Her to come over.).
Sarah W. Certainty: (Sarah of course speaks first.). Ms. Hedgie, I feel like I already know a lot about your interests. Are you having fun?
Hedgie Fletts: It’s high here. I see people riding their waves.
Uoherbhai: Uoherbhai. Ms. Hedgie. It floats. Look, we desire a closer conversation. Let me get your number and I will set up a meet? If you’re ready to go beyond Pratt Institute?
Hedgie Fletts: Look, I can hardly hear in here. Not a place I want to talk.
Janea: Right girl. Listen. I can do that for both of you. The numbers and all. Hedgie, U-Her, give me your phones. What’s your number U-Her? (This is just so that Hedgie thinks Janea doesn’t already have U-her’s number and Sarah’s number.).
Sarah W. Certainty: (Sarah knows what she has to do. She’s been around. Sarah gets close to Hedgie and starts asking about her clothes, jewelry, accouterments and her makeup.). Stunning how you blend ‘the’ look you have going? All what you’re wearing. It makes me take a longer look. To put it all in my memory.
Hedgie Fletts: I do take my time when I want to make myself up. The image, is more.
Sarah W. Certainty: (There it is again. A cascade of lessons, all at once, flowing from Mother Sayer explaining and deciphering these types of ‘times’.). Party on girl.
Uoherbhai: (She eyes Sarah as if she sees Sarah looking like she’s choosing what on her plate to put in her mouth first. It is a good thing. Introverts have come to understand that ‘contemplation’ is a good thing.). We good Sarah?
Sarah W. Certainty: (What did Mother Sayer say? ‘All women, no matter what, want to feel beauty in the way they understand beauty’.). Your style is eye catching Hedgie. I think we should get together and discuss business. Do you agree?
Hedgie Fletts: Of course, not here though.
Sarah W. Certainty: Of course, not here.
Janea: Ladies. We shall let Hedgie have fun in this place. Where she has chosen to have fun? Do we have what we need?
Sarah W. Certainty: Yes. Oh yes we do. And yes, we’re good U-Her.
Uoherbhai: Yes. I believe we are.
Janea: (Janea gets within ear shot whisper close to Sarah and says this.). Then, let’s get the fuck out of here.
————————-Success at Pratt Institute—————————
Epilogue:
(‘A dull knife slicing an onion makes more tears than toppings’. I’ve been working on that saying for weeks. Sarah is listening to Mother Sayer and the culture of Black people more and more. Sarah also has reconnected with the depths and richness of Italians and the Italian culture. ‘Carpe Diem’ is an Italian phrase she says to herself. I’m not taking a back seat to Africa and the remnants of her people on lands far and wide. I’m just making a pilgrimage back to my Italian heritage.
Sarah understands a lot more than most people because she was introduced to life’s ugliness early. It is natural to disconnect what we misunderstand as violence and what violence can do to help bring order. Sarah is no longer apologetic to what violence can do to stop other violence that hurts her family, friends, or her father’s business.
Violence is a vital piece, in a box of a certain type of product, that is necessary to ‘assemble’ a working and functioning tool in ‘defense’ of life. All life! The ‘innocent’ and the ‘guilty’.
There are people born, that are necessary to answer, respond and vanquish the violence of the evil people in this world. Sarah laughs to herself that the mob or ‘organized crime’ has been characterized as members of that category of ‘evil’ people. Some criminals are for sure, but her father is not a man marauding about, looking for the defenseless and weak.
Sarah has turned the dial of her power to its ‘maximum’ setting. She will solidify the parts she has chosen as part of her whole and she will ‘assemble’ herself with her virtues, violence as necessary, and the spirituality of her God. No more apologies. I am Italian. I will not weaken that heritage anymore!
Some assembly is required.).
