An everyday jug is Rilke's idea... the poem on the whole is verbose or maybe self indulgent like its title ("I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone") but it's also about things being just as they are, no more, no less.

Most people i meet are little jugs, little containers of the pieces and words and woes that make them up. And most objects could also be jugs if you wanted them to, the same way there are teapots and piggy banks and boxes shaped like all sorts of things. I didn't realize until later that if you google "jugs", you get pictures of bare-chested women.

http://about.me/everydayjug#

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Mammalian cards Part 8: grateful chipmunk

Thanksgiving card for all my favorite nutkin creatures.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Mammalian cards part 7: small creatures, epic potential

Baby hedgehog: For the new baby I met. He was both a peanut and a hedgehog.

Odysseus shar pei: For a very cute and very determined fan of the classics.

Monday, November 14, 2011

Mammalian cards part 6: warming house hedgehog

For my sister who's nesting into her lovely new home.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Mammalian cards part 5: Hidden gems: animals under things or under other animals

For a friend we call shy-cat who is humble and always does nice things for other people.

For a lovely little lady on her birthday.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Mammalian cards part 4: neurotic rodent

Chipmunk for a friend who's a creature of habit

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Mammalian cards part 3: two sorts of bears

Nothing says encouragement like a little koala bear.

For a little person who I miss. To bear-level proportions.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Mammalian cards part 2: otters for lovers, hedgehogs for friends with pets in need of mending

For a supremely hard-working little friend.

For a friend whose beagle is recovering from meningitis.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Mammalian cards for friends, lovers, literary critics, kidney donors,et al

For a noble kidney donor who happens to have the impeccable posture of a meerkat.

For a person I like. A lot. And don't like to share with other people.

For an F. Scott Fitzgerald fan on his birthday: Gatsby shar pei.

In mutual appreciation of the essay by Isaiah Berlin about Tolstoy, and the mammalian counterparts of the critique.