rcakewalk
day 1
About 10 years ago, my boss and friend had a birthday she termed "The Palindrome Birthday". She threw a huge party at the restaurant she owned, and the only gifts she requested were palindromes or 33 of something, since she was turning 33.
My take was to send her 33 postcards, each with an independent haiku on the back that made sense not only to the picture, but to the whole 33-card story. I organized them, stamped them, walked them a half block to the post office, where the postmistress put a rubber band around them and dropped them right into my friend's P.O. box. (Everyone in our 500 person town had a P.O. box.)
I was disappointed that they weren't out of order when the mail was retrieved, since I numbered each one. I thought it would be fun to read them out of order, then in order, since the experience is different. Not to mention, I could have saved on postage and just mailed them in one envelope.
OR, I could have just hand-delivered them a block and a half down the street... but what fun would that have been?
I borrowed the cards back to look at them more than a year ago, meaning to scan them into my computer and save them electronically. Instead, I will post one everyday for the next 33 days, using my iPhone and the Dyptic app. Then, I will send the cards back to their rightful owner.
day 1
About 10 years ago, my boss and friend had a birthday she termed "The Palindrome Birthday". She threw a huge party at the restaurant she owned, and the only gifts she requested were palindromes or 33 of something, since she was turning 33.
My take was to send her 33 postcards, each with an independent haiku on the back that made sense not only to the picture, but to the whole 33-card story. I organized them, stamped them, walked them a half block to the post office, where the postmistress put a rubber band around them and dropped them right into my friend's P.O. box. (Everyone in our 500 person town had a P.O. box.)
I was disappointed that they weren't out of order when the mail was retrieved, since I numbered each one. I thought it would be fun to read them out of order, then in order, since the experience is different. Not to mention, I could have saved on postage and just mailed them in one envelope.
OR, I could have just hand-delivered them a block and a half down the street... but what fun would that have been?
I borrowed the cards back to look at them more than a year ago, meaning to scan them into my computer and save them electronically. Instead, I will post one everyday for the next 33 days, using my iPhone and the Dyptic app. Then, I will send the cards back to their rightful owner.