The Air Smells Like Grass…🍃

Paul Bridges

kazeno_garden

04/06/2023

Dear diary:

My day today was more stressful and didn't take any pictures, so I decided to share an older picture and tell you about it.

This is a letter I wrote to an old penpal of mine, Max. It's one of my favourite letters I sent. I think it's very very pretty.

I used to penpal. And I had a lot of friends all over the world I wrote letters to. But not anymore. It's a hobby I'd like to have again.

I love letters, writing and receiving them. There's the expectation, the wait, and feeling the connection to someone else through a physical object.

I love letters, feeling someone else's feelings through the words they wrote to me weeks before. It's like looking into the future when you write them, and into the past when you receive them.

I just love letters. Not as remnants of the past long gone, but as a type of connection that can't be achieved in the same way with modern texting. Not to say texting is bad, it has it's good things, like how fast it is. But I do feel, sometimes what we need is to slow down.

Today's quote:

"One sees clearly only through the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

SpiderCreek designs

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

WIP dump for y’all :3 these aren’t even all of them LOL

𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 *, ‘✯

Blather On 🦴

very quick and messy sketch bc i truly love this universe and even when nobody asks for it i will be making more