Mt. Sima framed in frosty trees, sunset, Whitehorse, Feb. 2.
Sunset with Mt. Sima in the distance, looking over the frozen Tagà Shäw (Yukon River) with all the ice fog-riverbreath, Whitehorse, Feb. 2/08A friend who teaches the Southern Tutchone language told me something he really loved about the language was the way in which you would express the sentence 'I have a girlfriend' (or boyfriend) -- Äghajel (Däk'än) ye kanid'a = 'I am walking around with her (him)' (lit. a woman or man)
It's such a lovely image, walking around with someone. None of this possession business, that I have, my this/my that/mine.... just accompanied movement... a togetherness.
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I have heard that similarly, in some African-Canadian groups in the 1970s, the term was "I'm running with..."
(During a conversation a few years ago, a man told me, "When I was a teenager, we'd use 'running with' where the whites would say 'going steady' ".)
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