Vizma's memories make a compelling read

Reading Vizma's nearly square, nearly 4 inch book is  a bit like looking through someone else's box of photos and love letters at a car boot sale.  You believe everything and can imagine more. From the envelope that implores me to remember, remember, remember, the casual stance of the hero and the hat that suggests leaving as well as a time long gone made me want to tear the envelope open.  The upturned wine bottle and the hand next to the stamp with the laden down car, the birds and the words, 'road trip' make me hanker for the open road. I'm already primed, longing and a tiny bit nostalgic before I even begin.  the book is a delicious read that tells me a story and makes me care about the characters, and suspend all disbelief.

Drunkpo from Katy

Katy writes that she is so happy that the days are getting closer to gin and tonics with UP. My guess is UP is happy too as his wife spends most of the long evenings in her warm studio making things. Obviously sisters think alike, well in some things (wink, wink Katy), because while your postcard was soaring across the skies from Sanfran, I was knee deep in drunkpo myself! 

And then I put them all in the post...  There are two more thinking about where to go.

Inspired Drunkpo from Vizma

A few things about this work from Vizma... 
1. Our posts crossed somewhere off the English coast.  I wrote to tell Vizma how she'd inspired me. and then I got this haul from her, my first Vizma post! 
2. I have read Vizma's poem to many, but the most significant group was the teenagers who came to celebrate New Years with us on the farm.  There were four teenagers (18) and a couple of 20 year olds.  They were all enraptured.  You see the thing was I wanted to experiment with them creating DRUNKPO. And so we began.  They wrote some good stuff and it wouldn't have flowed  without New Years beverages (drinking age in the UK is 18) and Vizma's chop chop drunkpo. They are drunkpo neophytes now. More later.
3. I love the line 'leather shrinks in wet weather' because it reminds me  of a line by a favourite band, Cake.
4. THAT ENVELOPE! Fabulous!
4. it's got just the right amount of everything!
THANK YOU.  ~I love it all!