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crafting paintings, poems, postcards, ephemera collages & scrapbooks etc ~ sometimes for sale/rent - Let’s Enjoy! (other accounts are not fake)

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Also: paid for plane tix selling "flower sticks" at farmer's markets & street corners, hemp travel bags at Grateful Dead parking lots, VHS tapes of my awsum documentary film, picked wine grapes & sold chestnuts in Germany, submarine tour guide & private beach club host on Guam +

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As a kid sold candles at craft fairs with mom + made mimeographed newsletters, punk rock zines, poetry chapbooks

After sold internets (access & tools). now back to printed matters & spoken music

No funnels or subs, just friendly analog-ish transactions

Let's enjoy. ring me

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Also keeping track of international phone calls, letters received, hospital visits and small repairs

Did you see my video of organizing received foreign festive cards into an accordion folder?

https://t.co/2ecwksGNlR

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Some letters on luxurious stationary gathered in far flung corners to tell people “thank you so much for supporting me and my family”

A couple were secret prayer tiles with related vids but don’t tell anyone (filming interrupted by earthquake)

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January 22

Arbitrary check-in

42 cards, packets, and letters sent so far this month

Several were stragglers from my beloved new year cards

A few delivered by hand which should count double

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Another sneak out to coffee shop after medical treatment to fill journal pages with "100 things from this year" which, was shockingly brisk to do

Also, keeping new year card assembly line rolling along / hope folks know how much each card means to me to send

New schemes ahoy

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@milkteaandbooks I think its great

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@milkteaandbooks Oh that's terrible news! I hope you get some wonderful care and it's not too detrimental for holiday enjoyment

Let me know if you need an "get well" card in the postal mail

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Is your address up-to-date? I hope so cause one of these cards could be yours (but if your address is incorrect, well it's no fun for any of us is it)

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Rocking out another batch of new year cards with a mini Santa sidekick on a donkey, or is it a mule, or a burro…

Anyway, had my traditional Chinese medicine tea packets before a lovely coffee with a view of the castle ramparts and sound of street trams chooglin' down the road

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Test prints for special run of new year cards for Ryoko's business Kinome, and for Ichiro's buddies

Needs a couple tuneups (dang non-standard universal postcard size) but concepts are solid

I wonder if anyone will get the complete set? I, wonder

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Sitting at Momotaro hot spring ♨️ after lunch, before another soak: addressing, annotating & stamping a tranche of new year cards – gotta make a start so starts with an earthquake few stellar global correspondents & unique circumstances / i love the nengajo 年賀状 tradition!

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Any @postcrossing folks have any advice or opinions about the Canada post strike?

{know I'm overthinking this but just feeling anxious about all the new year cards cards can't send right away}

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Thinking about the Canada Post work stoppage situation & how impacts my fave New Year Card tradition ~~ Yeah it ain't about me – cheques, gifts, important items, and required support impacted

What am i missing about? What to do about cards for Canada? Wait or Digital only?

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For #postboxsaturday a specially adorned box at Korakuen garden in Okayama, Japan topped with cranes, noted for longevity // several dwell here at this majestic park which is celebrated as one of "3 great gardens" in the country, and they take a special flight on New Year Day

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@postcrossing I did similar with a friend here in Japan who might've never met, we exchange #postcards Frequently but we also filled / "forged" a Yugoslavian #passport as a dossier of interesting, mailing it back-and-forth a dozen times until full

Video montage:

https://t.co/0nSS9pOVDo

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Very important poll result

PS Talking about New York cards with my in-laws in Japan:

They're feeling like "giving up" on the tradition as rates just went from ¥63-¥84 each

Each year fewer and fewer are exchanged

{Still, literally billions delivered each New Year's Day}

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How many holiday (Christmas/New Year 年賀状) cards do you plan to send out this year? #HandwrittenLetters #Cards #Postcards

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i sent a #postcard to a very interesting fellow making ambient soundscape songs with spoken word (we connected when he used my spoken word found on Internet archive in one of his audio "postcards")

so, I sent him a paper postcard, a postbox from Sri Lanka, which arrived today

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@letterappsoc gorgeous, what a treasure!

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Japanese concrete playground telephones. Write-up and full set of 8 photographs here: https://t.co/UzoEReRdAf