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Subscription postcards: Extraordinary giraffes, spherical ice, and the South Dakotan Buddha

November 19, 2012 by campbell Leave a Comment

Postcard about giraffes and Africa.
Hello Elizabeth! This is a postcard with a giraffe on it. Giraffes have long necks and long legs and live in Africa. Below is the flag from an African country called Niger. Most flags are rectangles, but Niger’s flag is a differently shaped rectangle from most other flags … it’s a little more square-shaped. Pretty neat, huh?
Flag of Niger, and a giraffe.
The above-mentioned flag, and a little giraffe doodle.
Postcard about spherical ice and the decline of Western civilization.
Hello Carmel! The beverage in this collage has a spherical ice cube in it. The fact that there is consumer demand for spherical ice has me a little concerned about the overall well-being of humankind. “Give me spherical ice!” sounds like the fever-dream demand of a crazy person.
Postcard of Buddha meditating on stuff while bison graze in the background.
Bridget and Jory — The best part of my trip through South Dakota was meeting with the Buddha. I found him meditating under a banyan tree in the Black Hills. Banyan trees don’t survive the winters there, so every spring he has to special order a banyan sapling from a Rapid City nursery. Then he drives it to the hills and sets it atop a wooden ladder so he can meditate beneath it. I asked him the secret of happiness and he told me to buy a special meditation mat and a gong and a kimono and a “Sounds of Waterfalls” album from iTunes and that’s all it takes. So far it hasn’t worked; I think I bought the wrong kind of kimono.

Filed Under: Collage, Greetings from the Back of My Van, Postcards, Writing Tagged With: art, buddha, collage, GFTBOMV subscription postcards, giraffe, Great Lakes, postcards, south dakota, spherical ice, upper midwest

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