on the left is the card that charlotte gave me about a week before christmas. she has acquired a bird stamp and a penchant for creating cute personalised gifts in earthy colours.
on the right is the card that tim sent me, i received it the day before christmas - he seems to have also been infected with stamp fever, and is quite the little artist.
now that i have sufficiently patronized my only two friends who have attempted to keep alive the dying centuries-old tradition of christmas card sending, i will get to the point.
although charlotte and tim's lives are separated by state lines, eerily, they have created a story without any communication at all. as you can see, in charlotte's card, three birds are flying out of an opened cage into the sky. tim's card seems to continue the story by depicting the same three birds flying free into the night, soaring high above civilization, beside a bright full moon. this bizarre coincidental continuum is so jam-packed full of poetic metaphor that it just blows my mind.
great minds n all that...
ReplyDeletethey do look rather lovely together