Bird Mail: 016
The description for Charcoal is far too accurate
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In one of the newsletters I receive to help fill my collection with internet ephemera, and help me make Bird Mail for y’all, I came across an article about where we focus our curiosity. Why aren’t we curious about the things we want to be curious about? is a question I ask myself a lot. I wrote more of my thoughts on this on my blog that you can check out here. I am still curious where you find novel, trivial, or valuable information, so if you have a place on the internet you’d like to share with me, I’d love for you to send it my way by replying to this issue.
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Though Austin is nowhere near the right temperature for snow, I have been thinking about snow, imagining snow, dreaming of snow. Pray for snow.
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Bird sent me this article about plot without conflict with an excellent note about some of the webcomics, many of which are found on Instagram. Her note:
The word itself:
Ki : Introduction
Shō : Development
Ten : Twist (complication)
Ketsu : Conclusion (reconciliation)Some favorite Kishotenketsu comics include Strange Planet, CatanaComics, Mrs. Frollein, and Poorly Drawn Lines.
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Things worth believing in:
Time is a circle. We are reminded of this by the shape of a clock and the spin of the earth and its passage around the sun. The seasons happen in cycles. Seeds grow trees. Trees grow seeds. The wind blows, the seeds fall, and a tree grows again. Life is a cycle. Cycles are circles.
Therefore, when we meet old friends we have not connected with in a while, do not feel bad about the time that has passed. Save your apologies and explanations. Instead, be grateful that you have lived long enough for the season of your relationship to renew. To come back around. To come full circle. For time has not really passed, it has returned.
via Patrick Rhone
Your friend,
Bruce
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