Talking to Your Caterpillar
"Wherever we go, we are friends" -Sloth and Manatee
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Conversations - loud ones, quiet ones, one-sided ones, the ones inside our heads, the ones we think we're going to have...
Sloth and (Moon)atee
Bringing along five microscopic friends in a backpack has certainly increased the amount of commentary going on
More ways to have conversations... or not
This is a print called "The Table," which we have in our house - it's by Philip C. Curtis.
Here's a closer look at the detail (sorry it's hard to photograph, it's got glass on it)
What are they waiting for? Who is talking? Is it the guy facing away? Is somebody about to drop a bombshell? What does it make you think about?
And Now for Something Sort of Different but not really
The end of Inktober! As I mentioned, it became all Potatosaurus all the time at the end - and so on the last day the prompt was "fire," and so the Potatosauri gathered with some frogs and an Ipp - and the Moon, for a story
When I Ship Books...
An apology for the amount of tape I use. I'm a big believer in re-using materials, not using huge amounts of packaging, and "crumple zones" so the edges of the books don't get dinged up. And, one can do a lot of problem-solving with tape. So, orders are shipped with love and an impressive amount of tape.
PS The Brainwaves books are going quicker than expected so I've ordered more! So there might be some days of wait time in there but it's cool.
One more thing about Conversations
It can feel like we're in conversation 24 hours a day with these devices sending us stuff all the time. Like, somebody's watching, commenting, having An Opinion on us. Maybe that makes us feel connected, but it's also just so so noisy. The fact is, we're in conversation with the world just by being in it. So here's a lil reminder in the spirit of the 80s TV show Miami Vice (look up the theme song! It's rad.)
That's enough nonsense for now.
May you have a good conversation, may you also have some good silence, won't you be my neighbor?
-Betsy
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