I owe my blog a post or two, but for now I only have time to say: "Weez, where are you? Stop exceeding your bandwidth! And...Eileen needs your snail mail address!"
Well, wait. I think I have time for more.
I mailed my letter to Lorna Dee yesterday, quite miffed at myself for not being able to locate a decades-old supply of sealing wax to make things all...pirate-like. Or swashbuckling English hero-like.
Writing the letter was a lesson in enforced stillness, complete with much staring off into ceiling corners. No easy task for me, as my thoughts go every which way these days. I'm fairly certain I sounded nothing like I sound here. I was noticeably un-smartass, for example. No sarcasm, no humor. Just...thoughts. It sounded much more (I think) like my private journal.
I loved taking the time to write—legibly!—by hand. I even loved my aesthetic struggle to keep every line relatively straight. Thank hooters I managed to do so, otherwise I would have gone back over and over again 'til I got it right. By the time I signed off, my hand was tired and my writing showed it.
I never could have completed my little missive during the kids' waking hours! That's quite the opposite from blogging, which I can do while simultaneously overseeing a game of dominoes, cooking dinner, answering e-mail, and IMing with my brother. All of which makes me wonder if I'm ever truly present when it comes to performing my day-to-day stuff? Monkey mind.
Poor Eileen aside, how are the rest of you doing?
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I'm fine. Thank you for asking. I wish you'd start logging on to I/M again especially since I realize that it's our main form of communication.
I was surprised that nobody commented on the school picture post. I thought it was hysterical - but I'm admittedly obsessed with my own hair, so I guess that makes sense.
Anyhow... LOG ON TO I/M every once in a while so we can catch up!
Uh-oh. My brother is being sarcastic; this means I'm in some sort of trouble...
*hangs head in shame*
Today...today I /promise/ to write to BJ. Somehow, someway...
The stationery is in my bag. The envelope has her address on it. I have stamps.
I've just got to somehow carve/hoard/something the time to actually write the letter.
Aaarrrrgggghhh *total agony*
...blither...
Monkey mind, I feel that.
Congrats on writing the letter...it's been a long time since I long-handed one, too. Now, the sealing wax woulda been cool, especially if you had one of those (signet?) rings with a family crest on it--lion and eagle, crossed spears (Shakespeare!), etc.--which I think British and other European aristocratic families have. But maybe you can have one made--I mean, if you don't already have a family crest, cuz you know, all the "cool" Pinoy families have them.... ;) (Well, it would be a fun idea, but I don't know what animal or whatever we'd put on our crest.)
yup. sent my letter off today to Creen. i hope it gets there because it is somewhat oversized: a booklet within a booklet with lots of paint and color! to get the full effect, Creen has to blog about it/take a pic for her blog.
Nick
Sent the letter off to Bec today. Wrote it on paper that is meant to reincarnate itself. Well, Bec will tell you about it. Ooh, damn, I forgot about the sealing wax, had to settle for scotch tape.
feelin fine & dandy back here on the east coast.
latest movie i am quoting from at the most inappropriate times: Michael Mann's "The Last of the Mohicans"
British Officer: You call yourself a patriot, and loyal subject to the Crown?
Hawkeye: I do not call myself subject to much at all.
ob, you and I have the same taste in corny, sweeping epics. That movie is at the top of my guilty pleasure list.
Gura: Well done, you! (a quote from "Love, Actually")
Nick: Ooooooh! Thanks for playing.
Gladys: A friend of mine gave me one of those years ago! It's an "M." I found that, but not the dang wax.
Bec: Don't agonize! You'll get to it...
Mission accomplished...see blog for details!
*whew*
Oooo!!! This was fun. I wrote mine yesterday. I intend to scan it and post it to the blog, with my addressee's permission, of course. Nick: You just sent off a thousand dollar object sometime into the near future. I'm an old publisher. I know these things. I like that we can produce intimate, yet somehow public & private art & literature. At least, virtually, if I post them, I can reproduce the effect (pay it forward!) to whomever has a printer. But the addressee owns the artifact of the act and intent. cool. You know Eliot's (or was that Yeats?) love letter & poem were recently sold for $13,000, or thereabouts.
Not to be mercenary about it. Mine was an act of love. And nothing I say is too intimate because I'm writing to a virtual stranger. (sorry, I'm sucker for a pun) But in that intimate way you know someone better than your own spouse, sometimes, when you know all their work so -- intimately. Ya know? This was FUN! Mine has stickers! It came out like a poem! I got to use my prized cards & poetry postcards. It was a gift. (And, therein, a "blurb" for La Chaterlaine, whom I was most hoping to be matched with. Just don't ever try to get me to pronounce "Chaterlaine" in person!)
See? I'm all exclamation marks about it. Fun. Fun. Fun.
So -- I wrote another. I wrote to the po' blog stranger-friend I'd most like to write to. I wrote to "Ms Finch" who I, at first, thought was a mean impersonation of me - sorry, 'nother long story.
So -- which po' blog stranger-friend would you most like to write to next?
Oh yeah: "Monkey mind."
Made my day. Hilarious in context.
(I just missed something I had to do because my kid had to study extra after school -- I walk him home. And, tomorrow's his birthday. And, I have yet to shop for & bake wheat-free snacks for his class tomorrow morning. And, I don't drive. Oy vey! I'm going to miss my Tibetan Buddhist death class tonight!)
That's life in Po' Blogville.
"Monkey mind."
i wasn't being sarcastic. but if you don't start loggin on to I/M, you ARE going to be in trouble.
really, the school picture post was most enjoyable to me. is the photo of the kid with the spiky hair fo' real? is he actually a contemporary of the girls???? if he is, I love the post that much more.
SIDEBAR: the word verification that I have to type is kinda' dirty. eek!
Hi Lorna Dee! Your letter to Eileen has stickers? I'm so jealous. And I'm glad I'm not the only one with monkey mind...
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Kuya, that is not a picture of an actual kid in class! That would be terrible, right, to post a picture without permission!? It was just a sample of the most common style amongst the boys. R & V are gonna have the kewlest class photo ever.
done!
http://bjanepr.blog-city.com/epistolary.htm
that was awesome, ver!
Whooooah! I can't wait for my Chatterlaine hand-made post! THANKS, Lorna! Post reproductions anytime -- Moi got the real thing, after all, and can afford to be generous.
Okay, time is up for Weez. Too bad: I was gonna decorate my letter with thousand-dollar bills...heeee
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