Tuesday, February 18, 2014

endangered species





while winter's boney fingers still grip us tightly..
I am dreaming of spring..
and since I have no evidence of that..

I thought I would go through





my paper stash





and search for antique bird and egg prints...

and then I got sidetracked..
hoodwinked... tied up for a few hours...







it is dangerous to go perusing old boxes of papers..
journals bound in threads and raffia...
I could be lost for hours...

if it were not for you, dear reader...
gently calling me here to write 
a new post...






I could be lost for hours... perhaps days... grin

...

while I am working on my journal pages 
painting a new board and making several 
collages...







I thought I would 
rather show some things that I thought you might like to see if you were here..
rather than more wips..









and as I was pulling out old books and papers and 
an old atlas fell completely apart in my hands...
I realized that 
paper is going the way of the dinosaurs...
my shopping list is on my iphone
I am playing on my ipad with the 53 paper app

and eventually...





all this old crumbly
cellulose 

will turn to dust...








I don't think paper will ever go away completely...
like handwriting... which will be reserved for artists... probably...

but it will be more rare..






I hope I am wrong...
but I think I am not...
books are so...


heavy...






but ...
my paperstash did satisfy..

at least for the moment







my desire for spring...



C4N!