I have been making mixes with an intensity untapped since high school, when my double cassette decks were spinning more often than not with music for friends' cars and walkmen and basement rooms. This time, jewel cases with covers collaged from old National Geographic magazines are traveling in their handmade envelopes to Pittsburgh, Somerville, Providence, Binghamton, Spain. On my "salary" of $6 per hour, more than I would care to admit has gone to the USPS.I go through strange phases when it comes to communicating with friends and family. Some emails sit in my inbox for months, like rocks weighing down my pockets. Other things fly out of my hands to people I have no obligation towards at all. Sometimes it's easier to send letters and tokens of friendship to people who would not expect them, if only because it is then known to be genuine rather than obligatory.
But... writing this makes me realize how many obligations I do have to fulfill in the communication department, and how belated they are now. Was it Franklin who said that the secret to success is never leaving until tomorrow what you can do today? Time to get back to my writing desk.
1 comments:
Hey, thanks for your comment on my blog!
I'm commenting on this entry in particular because I'm similar in my communication mail sending. I get so enthusiastic about putting together elaborate illustrated letters, mix cds complete with cover art and packages of all sorts to people not expecting them and then sometimes an email from a close friend will sit in my inbox for a month. It's that sense of obligation that sometimes weighs down and makes it less exciting to reply to. Those mixes look awesome by the way. Yay for snail mail.
So you lived in Boston before? Any recommendations for fun things to do and places to go around here? Particularly around Somerville.
-AlisonAG
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