The following is a letter from my mom, each of my siblings got one. This Mother’s Day weekend I’m feeling honored to get to celebrate alongside people like her: Mother’s Day is coming up, and I thought I should tell you what I want. This way there’s no guilty panic or last minute purchasing of [...] Continue Reading »
mother’s day weekend
8Exit 200 on 81 south
0Stopped at a station for gas. Baby is sleeping soundly and we’re listening to Talk of the Nation. Next post will be from Knoxville.
anxiety (or why some pictures turn out bad)
0[ from a. addair who is listening to Tom Waits (Closing Time) ] when i think i’m okay or that i’d like a distraction thosemolesonmybackusetobesmallerdidtheynot but it scrapes in my stomach and drags at my face ineedtodoasisaidiwoulddoandsendthosephotostojosh and i try to smile at the camera but thedamnfloorsinourhouseletinsuchadraft it [...] Continue Reading »
all i’m trying to say is i don’t know, but it’s okay
4[ from a. addair who is listening to Bill Evans (The best of Bill Evans Live) ] It is different this year in Mexico. As I was last year, I am glad for warmth in the winter months and grateful for our friends here. I still relish the brightly painted walls; I admire the practical [...] Continue Reading »
as if wanderlust can be beaten out of you
4[ from a. addair who is listening to Yo-Yo Ma, Mark O'Connor, and Edgar Meyer (Appalachian Journey) ] Now that we’ve decided to make our home back in good ol’ East Tennessee we’ve often been asked “Well, have you learned your lesson?” We get this mostly from fearful grandmothers but there are a few [...] Continue Reading »
propagate snail mail
0[ from a. addair who is listening to Arctic Monkeys (Humbug) ] Now that the first issue of Good Packaging has been delivered to our subscribers, we’re going to let the rest of you in on what they got. Hopefully enticing you to 1. order a subscription and/or at least 2. help us spread the [...] Continue Reading »
pictures i like : painting between road markers
4[ from addair who is listening to Radiohead (In Rainbows) ]
“to ask and to walk together”
0[ from addair who is listening to Beck (Odelay) ] A few weeks ago, in San Cristobal de las Casas, we wondered into a shop filled with Zapatista artwork. Levon found an embroidered square that he thought we needed. I thought the work was beautiful but I confess that I cringed at the thought of [...] Continue Reading »
“consider the advantages of this rare human existence”
2[ from addair who is listening to The White Stripes (Elephant) ] One of my favorite things about being in Mexico is discovering other ways of doing things. It makes me feel like being an idealist is really the most logical of ways to be, because to think that we know all possibilities in any [...] Continue Reading »
a good human is, i think, an uncertain human
3[ from addair who is listening to Antony and the Johnsons (I am a bird now) ] Being the foreigner, I’ve been withholding my opinions. My particular set of American sensibilities inevitably colors my view but, as much as I can, I’m trying to keep my lenses clear. Or at least on the rosier side [...] Continue Reading »