moving image: far and near

Image 2 from Lee Kihyang's Moving Image series has to do with seeing and perception. Today the Dalai Lama starts a six-day teaching at Lehigh University, here in the Lehigh Valley. He will teach The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment.

zagreb

It's not everyday that I get a card from Zagreb. This was from a Croatian postcrosser.

hong kong trio

These three birds were on a card sent by a Hong Kong postcrosser.

moving image: desire and suffering

Artist friend Lee Kihyang was in the States last week from Seoul, but we were unable to connect in NY. Instead, she sent a beautiful little 'card catalog' from her March exhibition called Moving Image. I've several times written about Lee and her Buddhist-inspired works. Based on the Heart of Wisdom Sutra, the recent multimedia show featured Lee's fabric and body painting. Please see www.art-to-wear.pe.kr.

19th street theatre

I picked up this ad card the other night at the IronPigs game in Allentown. This weekend the 19th Street Theatre, my fave indie movie theatre, is hosting a variety of events to celebrate the 8oth year of its repertory Civic Theatre. On Friday night is a Buster Keaton film, with five-cent admission.

Lush Card

A recycled card from an Austrian postcrosser. I love the images peeking through the bright yellow Lush wrapper!

Beady Eye

Wonderful bluebird stamp on a postcard from Finland.

Rainbow Snowflake & Hepburn

A Canadian postcrosser made this sweet snowflake card and enclosed it with a wonderful Audrey Hepburn stamp. Ponytails never looked so glam.

on the old tokaido

Some of my favorite Japanese stamps are the ukiyoe ones. Tokyo-based German designer Jurgen Lehl must have a lifetime cache of them. He always uses them on his annual mailings. One came yesterday with this 2004 stamp featuring a print from Hiroshige's famed series of the old Tokaido post road.

spirit of '76

Jessie F. keeps the cards coming. Spirit of '76: most appropriate for the native Philadelphian that she is.

the writing life

This amusing stamp was on the card Hanna sent (below). It sums up the writer's life: perched on an island all alone typing as the pages drift onto the water.

happy and positive

Hanna, a 17-year-old postcrosser from Finland, wrote that she sent this card because she was feeling "very happy and positive". I love this guy walking through the meadow with a broom (!) on his shoulder and talking with his cat and hens. Hanna says it's an illustration from a Swedish children's book series which is popular in Finland. The man is named Personen and the cat Viiru. Feeling happy and positive! Thanks, Hanna!

tibet

The Dalai Lama is in Bethlehem, my old hometown, next week. In San Francisco last week, I happened on these two postcards of the Potala at SCRAP (Scroungers' Center for Recycled Art Parts), one of my favorite places in that city. A coincidence? Was it G. K. Chesterton who said that coincidences were spiritual puns?

Red/White/Blue Window

Our neighborhood had a little 4th July parade and celebration. The declaration of independence was read, the fire truck came and let the kids ride up with the firemen, hotdogs were grilled, lemonade scooped out and home made dessert dished out to all. I decorated our windows with postcards from last year's mail show and RWB paraphernalia collected over the years. It's a typical San Francisco summer evening - fireworks will show up as colored fog.

army/navy

This came yesterday from Jessie F. Maybe it's for the 4th of July. Maybe it's because her son, she has told me, was the captain of the baseball team at the Naval Academy. In any case, thanks again, Jessie!

belgian bear

Mieke, a Belgian postcrosser from the northeastern city of Peer, sent this sweet teddy bear card. I assume that she stitched it herself. Love it!

good news

Another fab collaged postcard from dazzling nonagenarian Jessie F. What can I say?

time to talk

Jessie F. says a lot with her upside-down message. Her baseball comment on the other side: We need help!

feel free

Sandy S. sent another of her charming fabric postcards. This one, of the deep, beautiful, mysterious sea, is embellished with colored laser prints, stitching, and sequins. Some of the message, however, got whacked en route.

sometimes she loses her head

Anders, a Danish postcrossing graphic artist, sent this Edward Eriksen take on the famous Little Mermaid. It was one of those days for me and the timing of the card could not have been more appropriate.