dyslexics untie: part deux
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boomerang
today my dad and i went to a huge wharehouse sale that this vintage store, boomerang was having. while looking around i found a colouring and rhyme book about stokely's vegetables. it's a promotional book for children. not only are the drawings extremely creepy, but the rhymes incredibly awry. the first page is depicting a mother tomato who has too many children so she puts out a sign to sell her children for people to buy and eat and then she decides to name her children. later the book has a wedding of different vegetables and their homes are in stokely cans. all of this is to make children interested in eating stokely vegetables. in the back of the book it tells parents that if they know a young boy or girl that would like a book like this, they can send in 12 stokely labels and recieve one of their own. this makes me feel kind of sad for the advertisers and the people who created this creepy vegetable book, because they thought this book would help them with selling vegetab...
thoughts on handwriting
i've always thought that hand writing is an indicator of a person's personality. recently while i have been staying in ireland, i have realized that handwriting is very much tied to your identity. i think this is one reason that snail mail is so personal, because you are giving a little bit of yourself to that person. i realized this here in ireland because i recieved letters from dear loved ones. it was comforting to recieve these letters if for no other reason than their handwriting. it felt as if they were there standing next to me reading me their letter. its not only more tangible because you can hold it in your hands but it is unique to that person. i found myself almost responding audibly to the letter as if they really were standing right there in my midst. i don't think that your handwriting can tell you who that person is, but i think it can tell you a little bit of who they were in the moment or what they are like. as i am thinking about this i think i would like...