Thursday, June 17, 2010

unsent


this is an example showing how something as minor as a crooked last line will send an envelope to the *sample* pile. i never got around to redoing this, but, it might go in my big book of ideas. as i get everything scanned and a few labels, it seems like an opportunity to get every dang envelope logged into a master list.

i am inspired to do so by the famous Ashleigh Brilliant. he's so famous i busted out the capital letters. ashleigh was in des moines recently. he has 10,000 epigrams that he has written and he had the foresight to number them. it's too late for me to do a chronological numbering system, but, i am going to get the envelopes organized. read more about ashleigh at his website and then stay tuned for a Brilliant idea that he shared with me regarding envelopes. it is Brilliant with a capital B and it has me very distracted. as if i needed more distractions. that inch of water in the basement should be getting more attention...but, no, here i am taking a break and blogging.

you may start on his home page and surf
http://www.ashleighbrilliant.com/
i recommend this page
http://www.ashleighbrilliant.com/BrilliantWisdom.html

please note, scribes, his words are all protected by copyright and if you think the words would be fun to write in your own style, you must ask for permission.

11 comments:

  1. and there will be a prize for the person who tells me what languages those are and confirms that they all say *do not write below this line.* i will have to remove this envelope if i was tricked into putting some rude or offending remark on my blog.

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  2. italiano
    francais
    deutch
    wilsonian
    english

    --k

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  3. yay. kathy wins the prize. everyone is curious. will the prize be that really nice envelope that jean hesitates to mail? or maybe there is a better one, buried in the stacks. maybe the prize should be....i travel to kathy's house and paint a line around one of the rooms and then write those words above the line...along with anything else *we* feel like saying/writing. or would it be better to write the words below the lines? back to the bailing of the water.

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  4. yes travel to kathy's house
    yes yes yes
    bail bail bail
    then
    travel

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  5. The reference to that inch of water in your basement really made me chuckle. Can totally relate. Priorities, priorities, sigh.

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  6. last night, talking to my class, i mentioned that according to carbon dating, there are paintings on the walls of *homes* that were done 30,000 years ago. isn't it remarkable that people were painting pictures on their walls the minute they even had walls?

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  7. one favorite of mine is the cave of swimmers in egypt

    btw no basements here
    and not much water

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  8. is there an image of that cave on the internet?

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  9. google images will do the trick
    wiki has almost nothing
    these were used in "the english patient"

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  10. Maybe the people who painted the cave of swimmers had water in their basement too. Hence the swimming.

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  11. laughing out loud here in the wetlands. carrie, your assignment is to research and find out who even invented the basement. and then we will move on to stimulating conversation about mold. and mildew.

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