hullo carol--
Oh I am glad you mailed your mask--am Clemente's assistant for the
parade as we will meet unless unforseen circumstance obtrude in Havana for
it--for three years now very good friends--i am collecting works from
Milwaukee to bring--
it is like autumn here, very cool and light air--collecting more
junk and rubbings from street for works--sending off to australia and
japan to two magazines and writing an essay--today--
haven't "put up" anything in years--i grew up in vermont so used
to spend days doing apple butter, haricots verts,(french green
beans)--making cider, storing away potatos and carrots, etc--in winter
maple sugaring--there's town fairs in summer with "sugar on the
snow"--snow saved from previous winter in freezers or cellars, topped with
that year's maple syrup--also beginning in august collecting downed wood in
forest for kindling, splitting wood and stacking--working on stone fences
before winter comes and begins moving them around if a hard one--
here mostly collect leaves, farovite weeds and small flowers to dry
and press--as like to put them in books and then forget about them until
sometimes years later opening the book again--
i used to inadvertantly do this with packs of cigarettes--now have
frequent dreams where i am walking city that is composite of paris/boston
and wroclaw, poland, berlin--and voila! reach in shirt pocket or jacket
inside pocket and there is ancient years old pack of Gauloises or
Sport--man do they taste good!
that first cup of coffee and cigarette in the morning is often
celebrated--and here i am, having mine before i even wake up!
dave baptiste
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Carol Star wrote:
> hi david,
> thanks for your positive thoughts. BTW did you participate in clemente padin's
> havanna biennial project? i did and am happy to have mailed off my mask last
> friday. did anyone else ?
> i am having a fun day, we have a farmers market on saturday morning in the
> summer and i bought a flat of peaches which i am putting up today while they
> are at their peak of ripeness. the floor is now sticky with peach juice and so
> i am doing some e-mail and taking a break. it is a mess but think how good it
> will be in midwinter to have such goodies.
> after many weeks of drought we have had rain for 2 days and 2 nights. have a
> happy sunday. best regards, carol :)
>
>
> David Baptiste Chirot wrote:
> >
> >
> > This ongoing discussion re who is the more flux, the real flux,
> > the true flux, the public, the private--
> >
> > after a while becomes very sad.
> >
> > There is too much to be done to be lost in personal quarrels,
>
