A RANDOMNESS in Postcards 4

1979: La Dolce Vita tied up at the Southwestern Y.C.

After posting yesterday’s awful drawing here, G and I were off to the Friends Book Sale. I thought there would be crowds, but no. There was just a comfortable number of shoppers. Then again, we weren’t there at the start of things.

I had hopes of finding all of the Harry Potter books. Hardbounds had been there Thursday, but this day there were only four of the six and in paperback. I grabbed them for Zoe…as she has stated she likes Harry. There had been one other book that caught my eye, “The Night Before Christmas” illustrated by Everett Shinn. I had a hunt to find it, but did at last. He was a most famous member of the Ashcan School, and by 1942 was in awful financial straits. These illustrations are charming, and the book will make a great Christmas Present for some artist.

I spent the afternoon turning faded blue or faded brown drawings black. Those faded colors look even less than visible when used online. Why I drew with those colors, I do not know. If I am going to share them with you, you might as well be able to see them.
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• Himself: Museum closed yesterday, so he took the day off gloriously. Today pick up his small winnings from the Lotteries, and he has no other plans till a birthday party and the meeting.


• Myself: Drop off my books that I got from Central library, bathe, and go to a birthday party before the Sunday meeting. I am ashamed of many of my acquaintances who accepted invites to last years party and didn’t show. I wouldn’t do that to anybody, and this birthday girl is fragile.


• Reading: One more mystery.


• Gratitude’s: That the Friends bookstore wants me back, that G brought up Breakfast, and that I remembered my youngest’s birthday just in time.