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[telophase]

In case anyone's interest is piqued about my Africa posts, I've got about ten of my mom's letters typed up and posted on the Web. That site is waaaaaay out of date - I think the letters were the last things I put up, back in 2002, so don't judge me too harshly by it. :) One day I'll finish the rest of the letters!

Anyway you can see that I was artistically talented from an early age! Thrill to my excruciatingly detailed portrayal of a giraffe with an oxpecker on its back! And another version of that same theme! And then I chose to break with that school of art and portray a genet cat! Surely, you can all see the seeds of greatness inherent in my earliest works!

I also think that one of the two letters up what I wrote all my ownself at the tender age of five is disturbingly poetical. I quote:

12 July, 1975

Dear Mimiand
PawPaw

I wish
you could
come
and see
serengeti
a genet comes
on my porch at
night. we feed it.

Love Stepha
nie


Also, you need to go over to bpggle and comment to guilt encourage my friend to post his Tunisian and Belizean archaeological experiences.

Comments

[riofriotex.livejournal.com]

I think it is SO cool that you have saved these!!!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:) My grandparents saved them and Mom got them when they died, and at this point there's no way we could toss them out. :) I know how paper deteriorates over time, so I really do want to get them typed in somewhere, sometime, but there's just too much to do! Aarg!

[riofriotex.livejournal.com]

It looks like you have scanned some of them, though, which is good. Typing is not going to save your early-artistry drawings anyway!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Oh, lord, yes. Imagine the blow to the entire Western canon should those be lost! :D