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Zen Letterboxing
Board: Traditional Letterboxes
Jun 30, 2006 8:16pm
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So I was talking to an artist friend of mine and bemoaning my stolen/vandalized/flooded boxes. He reminded me that a lot of his own art is temporary such as his sidewalk chalk murals, amazing sand castles, ice sculptures, and the like. He told me I had to embrace a more Zen attitude toward my boxes, which has really helped a lot. Especially when I find current pics of my box locations...like this one of my Trenton Falls box...

http://www.uticaod.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=CA&Dato=20060630&Kategori=NEWS04&Lopenr=630001&Ref=PH

And here's a pic of my Trenton Falls box location before the flood:

http://www.atlasquest.com/gallery/viewphoto.html?gPhotoId=3531

LW (Zen-like but not in the lotus position)
Re: Zen Letterboxing
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Reply to: #27447 by Lock Wench
Jun 30, 2006 8:25pm
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Wowzers, that's a LOT of water moving through there. I can relate.

Sometimes, like now, I wish I had read more Zen-related stuff. I suppose I do still have time.

StarSAELS
Re: Zen Letterboxing
Board: Traditional Letterboxes
Reply to: #27447 by Lock Wench
Jul 1, 2006 6:56am
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Lock Wench - I'm so sorry about your boxes :(

Hang in there! You can do it. Just keep chanting 'Ooommm' with your pinkies up in the air.

I can't do lotus either, but I do sit sort of cross-legged and it seems to help center me.

SunFleur
Re: Zen Letterboxing
Board: Traditional Letterboxes
Reply to: #27447 by Lock Wench
Jul 1, 2006 3:56pm
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Quote I had to embrace a more Zen attitude


If that helps great, personally I'd like to go ballistic on them. That would be my therapy. :)

Shiloh
Re: Zen Letterboxing
Board: Traditional Letterboxes
Reply to: #27447 by Lock Wench
Jul 2, 2006 5:20am
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Absolutely. I know little to nothing about Zen, but I do know that while a letterbox can in principle last for decades, it also can be gone in a moment -- due to malicious people, careless people, animals, floods, bulldozers, any of a dozen other causes over which we have no control. You know that when you plant it, and yet you do it -- because you know that while it lasts, it provides enjoyment.

In the final analysis all art is ephemeral. Only the time scale varies. Which isn't to say it's not a sad thing when a letterbox is lost, only that this is the way of things. Say goodbye, then carve another.
Re: Zen Letterboxing
Board: Traditional Letterboxes
Reply to: #27480 by Doctroid
Jul 2, 2006 5:48am
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Dead on, Doc. You said it better than I could.

LW
Re: Zen Letterboxing
Board: Traditional Letterboxes
Reply to: #27480 by Doctroid
Jul 2, 2006 6:22am
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Very well said...............z
Re: Zen Letterboxing
Board: Traditional Letterboxes
Reply to: #27480 by Doctroid
Jul 2, 2006 11:52am
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I've had one disappear because of flood and another because of animals (I think) both ave been replanted.

I could even deal with park personel but to have some malicious punk destroy it *just because* makes my blood pressure go up.

Shiloh