Marit's Paper World (blog)

The day is halfway and I’m still running around like (as we say in
the Netherlands) a headless chicken…

I uploaded the photos for this post earlier today, but I could not find
words to go in this post. Not even the title… My head is somewhere else.
How come? Well,  FEATURING was send to the print office today!
OHMY – In a week or so, the magazine will be born on paper.
A real magazine, MY magazine… I will be able to flip through the pages.
I’m so curious how you guys are going to like it!
It really is going to happen now and yes, I am nervous to the bone.

Sooo, I will show you last weeks artwork without much words.
I’m sure you’ll understand

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‘Ring ring….’ -  ‘ring ring….’

M: ‘Yes, who am I speaking to?’

R: ‘Hi sissy, it’s your brother here’

M: ‘Aaah, hi bro! How are things in Canada?’

R: ‘We’re alright, but what I’m calling for: I want to thank you!’

M: ‘???? Thank me? For what?’

R: ‘For that piece on your blog the other day, the Pink Floyd page.
That song, and especially that line is one of my faves. I was really
moved by your artwork.’

M: ‘That’s the nicest compliment someone ever gave me!
- Thank YOU brother!’

(A few weeks after this conversation it was my brother’s birthday. The piece
he was talking about was a page in my ‘album cover’ journal that I didn’t
want to tear out, but I made him a similar art piece on a cardboard panel.
He received it last week, so I can show it to you now.)

(approximately 20 x 32 cm - 7.9 x 12.6 inch)

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I’m facing strange weeks…

(Photo: Google streetview)

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No haiku today, but a poem my mum wrote in 1987

It says it all…

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(My son found a room in one of those big, old houses in the city where
he studies, and will be moving out on November 1st…)

Although this isn’t a haiku, I do put a link to ‘Haiku my Heart‘.
I’m sure the participants will forgive me for publishing this poem today.

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