Today we took a day off from grading and creating video lectures. It’s a cool day, with the sky draped in gray and the foliage rich with dark green tones in the dank air. She is working on her collage books, for which my Olympia SM5 has volunteered its services.
She has a range of textured paper, stamps, and other supplies at her disposal. Her latest small book focuses on insects.
I spent the day typing correspondence on linen paper, using my Royal Aristocrat. I cut the paper in half, and I think the smaller pages aided the development of my thoughts. It was a pleasure realizing letter-writing as its own kind of art.
Afterwords, I worked on some poems on some 40lb paper. She plans to shape her next book theme around womanhood. She will use two of these three poems; the last one is a bit too dark in subject matter and possibly too abstruse.
The poems are rough drafts, and it I think I lost my ear as time passed. But this day was about creating rather than producing. All in all, it was a much-needed day, which is its own form of rejuvenation. Sleep is for the body; creativity is for something much deeper.
This following item is a video that catches the ebb and tide of our clacking machines as we pecked away at keys.
The Untimely Typewriter:Daily Writings Against the Tides of Distraction 
I enjoy getting a glimpse of your creativity.
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The relaxing sounds of the typewriter.
Very creative book and poems. Last one brings memories of days gone by.
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Thanks, Bill.
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The second poem is the best. Its main concept (the last verse) conveys an unforgettable and original image.
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Thank you, John. By the way, a little something is in the mail. I hope all this talk about the USPS being suspended is mere hoopla.
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The USPS is being starved of funds; they’re supported solely by the sales of stamps, but they’re not allowed to adjust pricing without Congressional approval. Nevertheless, they’d be in the black if it weren’t for another legal requirement (instituted in 2006) that they pre-fund 75 years of pension benefits—something no other business is required to do. Apparently they’re also required to limit their investments to special Treasury bonds. I’ve written my representatives asking them to support the USPS.
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