words I never said

I was listening to GO on CBC this weekend, main topic on the show being "Things you wrote when you were a kid that you're not necessarily proud of" or something of the sort. Basically I have twenty boxes filled to the cahoots with passed letters in school, poetry galore, my first paintings, and old hand made story books with fabric covers (I was always so excited for the day that they were bound. I think maybe I rushed through drawing the main furry animal characters so that I could get some green, yellow and white floral print magic slapped on the outside, along with the Title and Author).

There is an open event that happens regularly in Toronto (at the Gladstone, as I recall) where you can get up and read a short story or whatever you want from your youngen years. I think it's a great idea for a series.

That's why I've been inspired to now have a new series on my blog. RANDOM KEEPSAKE. This series also comes from a deep love for Edward Carey's Observatory Mansions, where a crazy kook collects, catalogs, and cherishes other people's garbage. My new series first entry will take place on the next blog posting. I hope that if you read this and have something random you'd like to share, that you go on ahead and scan it in, post it on flickr or something and happily share your link and story on my blog.

Class participation gets you a sticker and some of those wonderful plaque fighting red tablets you'd get on Dental Day in the first grade that would make your teeth turn pink if plaque was having a party in your mouth. How mortifying! I can't believe they made us do that in school! Gratefully, my mother watched over my brushing habits.

And for a warm up, here now are a few photos I took in the summer of 2001. Eep!: