Kathe Welch
A long drive.
We drove for hours. So long I fell asleep. I woke up and we were still not there. Close, though, she assured me. It was not much longer before we turned off of the freeway rode through a small town only a few blocks in length.
An abandoned print in a thrift shop bin.
Original art shines. You can almost feel the hand of the artist, the way he turns a brush to create a line or the pressure from his hand as he dug a carving tool into wood or linoleum. Flipping through the bin one print jumped out at me…
Obscure Book Reviews #1: Chamber’s Concise Geography of The World 1902
Europe sent out polar explorers as early as 1507 and by the early 1700’s mapmakers were drawing the Northern sea as a waterway due to European merchants desire for a northwest Passage to China for increased trade – even though debate still raged about weather it was frozen land or frozen sea.
