At 11:21 AM 9/21/2007, you wrote: >Hi Marsha, > >do you know why you destroyed your journals and sketchbooks; of course >that's a rhetorical question and only for you to answer for yourself. > >I have destroyed journals too in the past mainly because they contained >private/embarrassing stuff and I got fed up of holding on to them. I don't >currently keep a journal now, probably because I know I'd write stuff in it >that I'd later want to throw away. Now I wont write anything that is >throwawayable. > >The subject of your email was 'Painting'; if I recall you don't usually sell >your work, so you must have many 'works'. I'm in the same boat and have many >items from many years ago that hold I on to, I gaze at them and wonder about >improvements but I practically never go back and alter. I'm destined to lug >all those canvases around for the rest of my life; a labour of love? Will my >son have to throw them away for me after I die? > >regards > >-Peter
Hi Peter, I'm not sure, but I wanted to know what it would be like not to have them. These were my art journals, sketchbooks with poetry. My personal journals I burned a year after my husband died, on the date of our anniversary. A couple of months after that anniversary date I woke up and took all my clothes (everything) to the Salvation Army. I had become quite unglued. Not sure why I destroyed the stuff more recently, curious maybe. It was a tea party, an emptying. I do identify with the stacks of paintings situation. A couple of years ago (maybe less, maybe more) I took a bunch to the Goodwill Store. But I have again many, too many. I've giving some away. I'd love to give more away, but to whom? I'm not sure who would want one. I told my son that when I die to take them to the Goodwill. Maybe some will find a good home. Very much a labor of love. Thanks for writing. Marsha >On 16/09/2007, MarshaV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Greetings, > > > > A few months ago, I destroyed 15 years of journal/sketchbooks. This > > morning I started a new book. Thank you. > > > > Marsha > > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
