Read Thread: Small world, babe. A bedtime story.
Small world, babe. A bedtime story.
Board: State: North Carolina
Jan 7, 2008 8:07pm
Back in 1998, I read, and was enthralled by, the April 1998 Smithsonian Article, "They Live For Letterboxing." I remember thinking if I ever got back to England, I'd want to do just that the whole time. I lost track of that issue, loaned by a friend, but a couple of years later, the cover art jumped out at me from a magazine rack at a thrift store, just about the time The Jolly G Man cross-posted a message about letterboxing to my volksmarching talk list. My husband and I bought a compass, and the Max Patch box was our first find. Hooked.
Fast forward to last night. I was Googling around, fishing for something to do with the Birth of American Boxing Event (BABE). I got an entry from that issue when I searched for the boxing article, but the content was about poster art, which was the cover story. And........somehow I managed not to notice 9 years ago, that the cover story about poster art was written by Constance Bond, who was my neighbor in the DC marina where I lived from '84 to '88....!
That's one small world story.
The other one is shorter: Being a lone boxer up here, I was trying to hook up with Seeker52 (I think he was just Seeker back then). I'd bought some cat eye ink pads at M'Press (used to be next to Malaprop's), and the woman there, when I told her I was a letterboxer, told me her neighbor Richard was. I just *knew* it was him. I'd tried to call and email and never got him. Finally met him at Twelfth Night last year. We each thought the other had been boxing first, so we compared dates and indeed my boxingness preceded his by a year. Anyway - small world - small towns - I know his brother.
:)
MS
Fast forward to last night. I was Googling around, fishing for something to do with the Birth of American Boxing Event (BABE). I got an entry from that issue when I searched for the boxing article, but the content was about poster art, which was the cover story. And........somehow I managed not to notice 9 years ago, that the cover story about poster art was written by Constance Bond, who was my neighbor in the DC marina where I lived from '84 to '88....!
That's one small world story.
The other one is shorter: Being a lone boxer up here, I was trying to hook up with Seeker52 (I think he was just Seeker back then). I'd bought some cat eye ink pads at M'Press (used to be next to Malaprop's), and the woman there, when I told her I was a letterboxer, told me her neighbor Richard was. I just *knew* it was him. I'd tried to call and email and never got him. Finally met him at Twelfth Night last year. We each thought the other had been boxing first, so we compared dates and indeed my boxingness preceded his by a year. Anyway - small world - small towns - I know his brother.
:)
MS
Re: Small world, babe. A bedtime story.
Board: State: North Carolina
Reply to: #172375 by MountainScorpia
Jan 8, 2008 9:25am
I'm always amazed at these stories. I recall that you met the lady that did the quilt squares thing too by some coincidence.
I can only conclude that all things somehow lead back to Mountainscorpia with even less than 7 degrees of separation.
I can only conclude that all things somehow lead back to Mountainscorpia with even less than 7 degrees of separation.
Re: Small world, babe. A bedtime story.
Board: State: North Carolina
Reply to: #172498 by The Wolf Family
Jan 8, 2008 9:48am
I scare myself, sometimes.
:)
:)
Re: Small world, babe. A bedtime story.
Board: State: North Carolina
Reply to: #172498 by The Wolf Family
Jan 8, 2008 12:20pm
*nodding & smiling*
I agree! 100%
