[ from a. addair who is listening to Spoon (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga) ] Good Packaging subscribers received their boxes this week. We’re going to continue the discussion with periodic blogs on the subject, so here is a little peep show of what they got, so you can be in on the conversation. summer [...] Continue Reading »
good packaging summer 2010 : thoughts on home
0song 14: Knoxy Salsa
3The last song I’m going to share is this one. It has two movements that alternate, one salsa and the other Mexican ranchero. Both are interpretations by a Kentucky boy from bluegrass and that is the only consistency. knoxy salsa.7210 Thanks for checking out the songs these last two weeks. I needed to share them.
pictures i like: Let goes to the farmer’s market
0[ from a. addair who is listening to Jennifer Nicely (Luminous) ]
back to assuming english will be fine
2(by Levon who is listening to American Analog) I’ve been sitting here at the table having coffee with my cousin back in Donna, TX. We’re swapping accounts of Mexico like it’s someplace further than five minutes from here and longer ago than yesterday. Over the last week we’ve crossed Mexico again, six weeks after we [...] Continue Reading »
itinerary
5(from Levon who is listening to Angel from Montgomery by John Prine) Two days until we head off again, and we are nearly ready to go. This time to a village in the jungle near Tuxtla Gutierrez, a city in the southernmost state of Mexico. We’ve been trying to get this off the ground since [...] Continue Reading »
one year later
10(by Levon who is listening to Jay Z’s “Empire State of Mind”) For all of the encouraging, listening and supporting over the first year of No Room for Hipsters, we sincerely thank you. This time last year I was writing Facebook notes to notify everyone I knew about our plans to make a go in [...] Continue Reading »
real mail
4(from addair) I got three handwritten letters in the mail and I wanted to share some of the good fortune. “If they really wanted to help cats out in here, they would give them things that they could use out there like education or a trade. Instead of just sitting around in here in this [...] Continue Reading »
grass
0It is pleasing when you find yourself in life’s little metaphors. When seemingly ordinary details take on more than you give them credit for. Every day I am putting seed in the ground, literally. I am a seed sower. Either by professional equipment or by the sprinkled handful. We use a machine which runs over [...] Continue Reading »
to those of us who aspire
0Inside each of our heads is an idea. In thoughts, we have the ability to see our intentions fully glorified. The idea is established here already or we wouldn’t be chasing the details and learning the actions to support it. But on the outside we appear to scramble. Establishing generally means hoop jumping, chasing loose [...] Continue Reading »
home, home, and home
2Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky are not considered to be very big states but they are very long. In the last couple days we managed to drive about 2000 miles within their borders. In Knoxville we stopped for some Tomato Head to-go and left it to chance who we would see in our few minutes on [...] Continue Reading »