7 April 2015
“Ponte Vecchio”
“Scribbled secret notebooks and wild typewritten
pages for yr own joy.” Jack Kerouac
From my journal: “This morning we wrote about E & M at a wonderful cafe near the Ponte Vecchio. Kerouac talks about loving your life . . . I think you have to have to love your characters, even the evil ones to write them into your life. I think you have to love the process too. I love our creative process, love seeing the story unfold, watching the synchronicity of the characters and the history we never knew that inhabited and guided us. I see E & M in these rich earthy drenched colors.”
“Walking along the streets, holding hands, kissing, being . . . loving my husband as if we were just married but better and more. Having it all . . . Us working together creatively!
“Basilica of Santa Maria Novella”
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never along or weary of life.” Rachel Carson
From my journal: “Tomorrow we are leaving Florence. It is fitting that I sit and sketch Alberti’s Novella with a wonderful cup of coffee this afternoon, Mik reading at the table next to me. I fell in love with Alberti in college. I found his designs elegant and timeless. Sweet. Jewels.”
“I keep thinking about Moore’s discussions of public places, and how we have lost them in our culture, and how Disneyland recreated them! When you look at these huge plazas early early in the morning before the city is eating and drinking and shopping and lounging about, they look like cold hard places. When the city wakes the plazas fill with bustling talking laughing people. I crave this. Maybe this is what Americans fall in love with, because we have lost that in our cities. We are off to stroll around the city, hand in hand. My loverman.”
BTW, I will get around to showing you the crazy pasted stuff in my journal. Here is one example! It’s how I see where we might want to go or have gone. I wish I’d done this when I was a kid.
Moleskin 8×11 watercolor journal, Pentalic HB woodless pencil, De Artramentis Document and Super5 ink, and Daniel Smith, Holbien and QoR watercolors.
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Love the quotes and the sketches (WOW!, but unfortunately I’m having a bit of a challenge reading your handwritten narrative. Someday maybe I can see it in person, dear artist. ❤
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That is why I transcribe it — nobody can read my handwriting! But if you are having trouble reading my types written narrative . . . This I need to know. Can you not follow the typed narrative? It is true Cat is writing for herself . . . fakely!
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I can read your handwriting just like you can read my awful typing 😋 i loved this day in Florence and the way you describe empty hollow plazas and how they come to live with humans and vendors.
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Along the trip I am having an internal dialogue with one of my old mentors, Charles Moore.
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That’s fabulous! Is he the one who passed away last year?
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No, Kerouac was a beat poet/writer, died in the 60’s.
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I know eho Kerouac is 😆. I was talking about your mentor who died!
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oh gads. never thought of that — tho i was surprised that you would not know keroac! both charles moore and pierre koenig died within the last ten years. pierre i was close to; he is responsible for me not dropping out (in real life.) charles i knew but i was not close to — but in cat’s world she knew him well!
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Yeah I laughed knowing you had a WTF moment thinking I didn’t know who Kerouac was 😘
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so often i think of you as an old friend . . .
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BTW IN Friday’s post I’m nominating you for an award. NO PRESSURE !! Especially this month -you’re free to accept, ignore, delay, change rules; whatever 😷
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okay . . . never had an award before and curious.
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Just don’t get put off by the rules! Listing the URLS of 15-20 nominees is insane – who has that kind of time and readers won’t link to that many anyway!!!
Maybe you can weave the award into your fake journal – like a telegram from the States while you’re abroad 😍
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yes’m. i really want the aps you have for cool facey-thingies. btw, that is the technical term of them.
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Maybe you can unearth an I-Pad in the ruins on your archaeological dig in Rome and it will already have the fancy-facey-thingy app loaded. Or better yet it’ll have ancient hieroglyphic facey thingies.
All things are possible in Fake Journal world 🎭🇺🇸🇮🇹😳😁
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That was a truck respnse. Romans didn’t HAVE hieroglyphs!! What did they have ? Cuneiform?!?!
Gah!!! It’s a lot of work composing a fake real journal 😩😎👺🙈🙉🙊😻
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Too funny and now you are just teasing me with all those faces!
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👳👮🎶👺🐰🐍🐛🍎🍭🍆🚓🚌🚁
That’s emo-speak for enjoy your weekend
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HAHAHAAAAA
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I’m picturing you being strapped into that strait jacket like the gendarme in Pink Panther movie when Inspector Clouseau drives him crazy 😆
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