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Greetings,

Once upon a time before I invented the Internet I created poems, stories and comprehensive travel dreams using paper and pen.

Notebooks, flattened by geological pressure, strata layers, spirals, Fibbonaci. Even using pencils or crayons or watercolor brushes. Be the paper. Be the brush, the ink, the water. It wasn't clean which always made it creative, fun, exploratory and a mess. A beautiful mess.

I also pounded on a typewriter. I carried a red portable Smith Corona around Ireland for two years. Working as an au pair in Dundrum, then as a youth hostel warden in Wicklow, Donegal, Mayo and Killarney. I used inexpensive thin paper and carbon paper. The carbon paper was the original "save" feature. Sheets in a thin box. Valuable and recycled until every space became blackened, white dreams where words played, escaping like free wild geese in Ennisfree.

Oh. I amost forgot, yes ribbons. Ribbons for the machine. They were solid black and came on stainless steel spools. They were packed in small clear plastic bags in a box from a stationary shop on a small Dublin side street. I used a toothbrush to clean the keys. It was a sweet, fast lightweight machine.

Kinda like this iPhone app tool on Squarespace. Same-same but different. Wow! Star-techie.

I'll always prefer the heart-hand connection holding a pen, feeling the nib on paper, seeing ink marry paper.

Metta.

Moon dances with bamboo.