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| Julia's mom drove her 2 1/2 hours to come to the Mamacita Holiday Show |
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| Julia (13) didn't know when they set off on Sunday morning that she was going to meet me! |
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| She's had my book for a year. And her journals? They are brimming over with thoughts, color, art and joy. Going through this young artist/journaler's books brought such happiness deep inside. To see her copy of my book, well used and tattered: this is why I wrote Journal Spilling. So many people over the past year have been generous in sending me emails, artwork and love. I thank each one of you. |
Julia's favorite passage from the book (she circled it!) is on page 21, under Time to Play:
"...I've seen plenty of blank journals. We don't often get the opportunity to see the journals that are just started and brimming with promise, half-full and beginning to splay. full to bursting, spilling over with bits of paper, overflowing with color, words, images ... .
If you go through one of my journals, you will find incomplete pages, messy ugly pages, beautiful pages. Pages full of writing and some with art. ... In this way, a journal imitates life. It is not a TV family or an ad with a successful woman wearing great boots. It is wabi-sabi; beautiful and dying; ugly and alive. It has a true, deep beauty like a woman over 50."
Thank you Julia and your mom/chauffeur.
Also ... a beautiful show.
