These are the last of my black box items (other than the photos, which I will scan when I am able). Above you see a pen that Ashley gave me (it blinks various colors), a notebook in which I made my hurricane entries (you can search for those in typed form if you would like), a notebook I bought while in Ottawa (it once held the original notes for the story where Frozen Truth has its beginnings), a notebook with Frozen Truth spelled on it in glow-in-the-dark glue (it holds the poems “Knotted Thread” and “Moths and Fireflies” as well as a journal entry from April, 2002), one of the nine grey photo albums in the box and a piece of paper which my class wrote on in grade 12 (it was a “write something good about the person whose paper you have” activity).
This second set of scans are of business cards and keepsakes from my trip to Ottawa. I was facinated by the Egyptian exibits at the museum I visited, and had to bring some home. They aquired quite a sentimental value.
This final set contains papers from when I went to a Terry Brooks signing and reading, Elfquest tattoos, tickets from various concerts I have attended, Poe items, a Tool postcard, a Joydrop and Buck 65 flier, Kidney Thieves items, a Moby postcard and backstage pass, and a synthetic leaf that came with a Molly Zenobia album.
7 comments on “Digital Napsack”
I think your Digital Napsack is very beautiful.
I wrote poems about one of the hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico (Georges, in 1998, my first semester of college) but sadly they are all in Spanish. I always seem to write better verse in Spanish and better prose in English. I love your description of the leaves dying before their time. One of the things I miss the most about home is the changing of the seasons. Here it’s always hot!
I’m going to have to take a bit more time to browse your site. It’s very interesting, like a window into your soul… That’s the intention behind my secondary site (Fascinations) but I have to be more reserved than I would like because my boyfriend is in the public eye. That’s the price I pay, though.
Hope you have copyrights on your poetry…
-Mandy S.
Thank you. I’m glad you’ve enjoyed my Digital Napsack project. It was something I really wanted to do for myself, but to have someone else like it is very nice.
I wish I knew some Spanish so that I might understand your writings. Even my French is very rusty, sadly.
I really enjoy the changing of seasons myself. I don’t think I could stand a year-long summer.
I’m glad you feel interested in reading more of my site. That at leas makes me feel there is some purpose in keeping it up there.
One nice thing about Live Journal is that you can make friends only entries, so if you want to express yourself more you can control the audience.
I don’t have specific copyrights on my poems, but as I understand copyright laws, they are protected. I’m not all that concerned, though, honestly, because I never find them to be worthy of publishing. I’m still working on reaching that point where I’d be willing to offer them in that form.
I still have the paper that everyone wrote things about me on…Grade 12 rocked. Especially Biology…that was fun. I think I might scan and post that picture of you wearing a recycling bag on your head…*snickers*
Ah, I loved that photo! I was truly the man.
I miss all the people I hung out with in grade 12, and all the card playing in biology. Those were the days.
The Pic!! The Pic!!
Alrighty…me and FT…and he’s got a recycling bag on his head. This was taken in the bio lab in our grade 12 year.
That is most beautiful. Those were the good ‘ole days, for sure.
🙂 I’m glad you have enjoyed seeing them.
The photo albums are next. That should be interesting. 🙂