Elephants

I think I have a tiny obsession with elephants..

They are so innocent and sublime. They are so beautiful and I hear they're super nice. The artwork I see containing elephants is wonderful and I wish I could get back into my art so I could contribute. I do feel, however, that the elephant, along with the owl, have become symbols for this hipster movement that has plagued the nation. I love elephants and I love owls but I certainly am not a hipster. I'm Agunia and I like elephants, that's all.

I think my love for elephants stems from the Polish tradition that an elephant is a good luck charm. The first time I went to Poland, alone at age 7, one of my relatives gave me this tiny brown porcelain elephant and told me to always keep it with me because it would bring me good luck. So I did and I don't know if it ever gave me good luck but I thought it was so adorable, I started collecting little figurines of porcelain elephants from Poland. I think I have like 6 in my room now. Now I just love elephants and think they're cute and wonderful.

I still carry that tiny brown porcelain elephant with me everywhere. I can't leave the house without it.

However, now, my mother tells me that elephants are symbolic of fertility and that because I have so many elephants I should throw them away because I'm gonna get pregnant. Okay mother...

I love my elephants, and they ain't goin' anywhere. I got to ride one once. Oh, it was wonderful. My parents had taken me to this circus museum in Wisconsin and they had an elephant riding station so obviously I had to ride it. I want to go back so bad but I went there 10 years ago and I don't know if this place still exists. I don't know of any other place that let's you ride elephants.

I even have a little handmade elephant ring that Ryan got me.

Little girls grow up loving horses (I hate horses, I don't know why) and I grew up loving elephants (:

By Kate Alizadeh