Fe-Mail goes public

"Fe-Mail" art by Suzi Banks Baum

Have you ever wanted to read someone else’s mail? Who among us has not peeped over the shoulder of a reader- was it at camp on the bunks at rest time? Or in the mail room of the theatre? Or at some coffee shop where the luxurious scape of another’s mail beckons your eyes off the daily news?
This past Friday at Berkshire Art Kitchen over 100 happy people gathered over wine and grapes to read Karen’s and my mail. We were thrilled!
We are “Fe-Mail” Art and our show is on exhibition at the Kitchen through April 30. We have events coming up in honor of National Women’s History Month and in honor of you- taking a few minutes here at the LaundryLine to take a break with art.
We’d love to tell you more about our show. We’d love for you to attend our April 10th workshop here in Great Barrington. Or, what if you found an arts organization, a women’s group or art gallery who would like to have our event come to you! Deluxe! “Fe-Mail” travels. You can contact us through laundrylinedivine@gmail.com for more information.
In the mean time- what have you noticed today? My friend Winslow Eliot, is an author and writing coach. She has me writing my 10 Daily Happinesses.

Here are mine:
My pal Kathleen’s voice on the phone today
My ab coach Ari wearing gray today as a break from winter black
The sun all over the place today
Peering through the prism on the window sill and seeing everything rimmed in rainbow
Karen’s voice right now in the kitchen
The light coming through the geranium leaves on my desk
The heat of the bath I took and soaking it up for the day of chilly winds
The sight of my hub at the end of the muddy driveway
Snowdrops
Snowdrops
Snowdrops

Karen and I will link you up to our Fe-Mail website before too long and you can view our prints for sale there. The original show of 75 handmade postcards are not for sale. The collection is growing and I am ever hopeful that tomorrow will bring good mail!

Hope you had something great in your mailbox today.
If not, send me your address and maybe the mail fairies will shine on you!
Love, S

Tags: acrylic paint, Berkshire Art Kitchen, Fe-Mail postal art, Gabrielle Senza, Karen Arp Sandel, put something "Fe-Mail" in your life today, Suzi Banks Baum, text masking, Women's History Month

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3 Responses to “Fe-Mail goes public”

Kathy Says:
March 9th, 2010 at 7:29 am
To bad I don’t live closer to Great Barrington. I would go and write a blog about you guys. Love your ten Daily Happiness list. Instead of snowdrops I would put sunshine, sunshine, sunshine. PS Is that you guys in the photo? Or others?
Winslow Says:
March 9th, 2010 at 8:37 am
This is So Lovely – I’m so happy to have inspired you to write happinesses. I’ll definitely check out the Kitchen – meant to join you all last weekend. Sounds like a great time.
suzi Says:
March 9th, 2010 at 8:51 am
Good Morning! Yes- that is Karen and I in the photo booth up in a tiny town between our 2 residences- sort of equidistant…and worth the trip- no matter what. We are on the verge of launching a website for our show and prints so we were playing with images of us. And Kathy- you are followed in comments by Winslow- the inspirer of Happinesses! What great timing! Love to you both! S I can hear the persistent call of the robins in the hemlocks out my window. xoxox

Suzi Banks Baum Writer Blogger Artist Mom

Welcome to the Laundry Line.
Here you will find weekly posts about what I find fascinating, inspiring and captivating about life. What could a woman raising 2 teen agers in a small town have for the world community of the internet? How about warmth, joy, curiosity and celebration? Here at the Laundry Line, my artwork, my collaborations, my way of living in the world, as my friend Daniel sings "One thing at a time" creates space for you to find in your own life that same sense of celebration.
What do I want from you, my treasured and appreciated readers?
*Time enough to read and let whatever is hanging on the Line filter in to your heart.
*Comments and feedback about what you encounter here.
*Spreading the word and sharing this site with other like minded people.
*Support and oomph for my mission to "See and Celebrate the Sacred in Daily Living".
*When the day comes, I would love your endorsement for my book titled "Laundry Line Divine: A Wild Soul Book for Mothers".
*Until then, read me, like me, tweet me- in your own perfect and elegant timing.
Thank you so much for giving me some of your day. I truly appreciate this generosity.
xo S
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"We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains."

this from Ursula Le Guin
born September 21, 1929
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FeMail, my collaboration with Karen Arp-Sandel
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Praying by Mary Oliver

It doesn't have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones;
just pay attention, then patch
a few words together and don't try
to make them elaborate, this isn't
a contest but the doorway
into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.
Like Suzi Birdsall says, “I love a manifesto because it has manifest in it”!