Go low tech and high touch
Update: many thanks for all the great emails about these calendars – a number of people have indicated that they hate using PayPal. If you’d like a calendar but want to pay by check, email to let me know and I’ll pop one in the mail to you and provide you the address for sending payment . . . thanks!
Dear Friends,
Well, the advantage to being immobilized by my recent fall and so-called recovery is that the art projects I’ve wanted to do for quite some time (but couldn’t quite manage to accomplish on an airplane tray table what with the Terrific and Claustrophobic Proximity to the people next to me and that whole ban on scissors thing), are now happening.
Big red paper chains adorn our holiday tree. Handmade snowglobes are in the making. Knitting the longest scarf in the world has continued (well, honestly, I just have no idea how to end it…). The detailed and painfully artistic rendering of Paolo Uccello’s "Battle of San Romano" in macaroni that I mentioned recently is well underway.
And how about this one? Would you like a 2007 "37days" calendar? It’s low-tech, but a simple way to remember to live intentionally 
every month next year. There are twelve challenges included – from "Become you" to "Follow your desire lines" to "Carry a small grape" and beyond, with quotes from those essays (or if there are particular challenges you’d like, let me know and I’ll try to include those)… [These photos are of a similar project, made the same way, but with different content; I can’t post photos of the 37days calendar because, well, as I may have mentioned, my beloved Canon Elph PowerShot SD600 digital camera is missing.]
On the first day of every month, you simply take one of the rubber bands off the chopsticks (remember: High Touch, Low Tech) and move the next months’ challenge to the front.
If you’d like one (or how about a few for New Year’s gifts?), you can buy it online using PayPal (send PayPal payments to patti at thecircleproject dot com and email to let me know how many you want and where to send them).
The cost per calendar is $10, plus $4.50 to cover packing and shipping. Half of the money raised will cover the cost of producing the calendars; the other half will be donated to support Meta’s dream.
Happy holidays, dear friends. Your words and support and insights and true big old hearts have so enriched my life these past two years. Happy, happy holidays. And, as my second-favorite poet, Rilke, was wont to say:
“And now let us welcome the New Year
Full of things that have never been.”
Love,
Patti
