Until I started these newsletter shenanigans, I was prone to thinking that a week was a relatively long period of time. However, when you add in regular, weekly appointments the days just dissolve. It feels like everyday is Saturday, like everyday is Monday…perhaps each day should last a week. I'm concerned that we're already over halfway through June, but I'm trying more than ever to slow things down—enough to have 'time affluence' but not so much that I start to feel useless. Let's begin.
THINGS THAT HAPPENED ON THE BLOG THIS WEEK:
Three things happened, which is probably some kind of new record for me. On Monday, we had a quote from Emily Brontë, on Tuesday I wrote a few words about the Japanese concept of ma (間), and then on Thursday after the awful, tragic killing of the MP Jo Cox, I lettered a Maya Angelou quote while I struggled to want to even go to sleep. What I wrote to accompany it is below, because while it seems our world is one horrific happening after another right now, there is still so much light, and we must continue:
I will be sleeping with a heavy one tonight, taking it gently out of my chest so that it cannot disturb me as I dream, dearly hoping that things look more settled by the morning, that this accumulation of humanity-related sadness pulling me into the water weighs a little less, that I can continue on with the real and true things, the things that will endure.
BOOK-RELATED NEWS:
I received copies of the new Korean edition of Lost in Translation in the post the other day! It's joined my Japanese and Italian copies on a shelf, and is already looking at home (comparing the designs and nuances of them all is fascinating).
My second book is getting ready to be released into the world. The UK version (below) has a completely different title and cover, so I'm giving you a heads up now. You can pre-order it from Waterstones, Amazon and probably other places (or like me you can wait to crawl excitedly into a bookshop). I kind of love it.
THINGS NOBODY ELSE HAS SEEN, EVER:
1. Sometimes I dabble in ceramics. This means I take days of my life to paint hundreds of thin black lines onto large dishes. I also really dislike the word dabble at the moment.
2. There seems to be a theme going on here.
3. Perhaps this was posted somewhere before, perhaps not. But it has been in an unfinished state for years, and I'm fine with that. This was a very monotone section, I feel like I should apologise.
The end.
Fini. I hope this wasn't too sombre, but the external goings-on of the world always have an effect on the people who pay enough attention, whether it's observable or not. Next week you can look forward to a new knitted animal (see Patrick, Roger for example), and I'm not yet decided on what sort of creature it will be, so suggestions are welcome. Probably send me a Tweet if you think of anything good, sometimes I misplace emails.
Farewell, see you next sometime.
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