Color Splooshes Over Time Scaffolding
Color splooshes over time scaffolding?
Cubes of boxes topped by dreamy escapes?
Annual straightjacket with decoration on top?
Nope, we’re talking calendars, my maties. Gregorian, Julian, Lunar, Harry Potterian, and so on. Those necessary contraptions that keep our heads straight because brains weren’t meant to get clogged up with 365 possible futures at once.
What if humans had not invented calendars? I should think we’d be intimately acquainted with the time of sunrise and sunset, and your birthday might be something more like ‘when the apple tree blooms’ or ‘first puddle freezes over’. Mine might be ‘when it bloody well ought not to be still raining but it still is’ (mid-May).
Once, for a year, I tried to make one day each month so interesting that I’d remember it the following year. We usually remember what we did on our birthdays or a holiday, yes? So the idea was to make an otherwise forgettable day memorable. Pick a day with a few week’s notice to make room for anticipation. It might be as grandiose as travel or as minuscule as a picnic dinner on the living room floor. Just make it out of the ordinary. Then see, the following year, if you recall that, “March 7th was the day we walked over the bridge in the smacking rain while eating gummy worms which got all sticky and stained our pockets in rainbow streaks!”
I know, I know, it’s not realistic. But try it anyway.
Antics aside, here she is! The 2023 calendar. I designed it to be more usable than the last one (consistent spacing, more room to write in the boxes). These were printed at a local mom & pop printing company and are more professional as well. Every month is a painting made outside. Here’s some proof:
And that’s all I have to say for myself on this fine October evening. I wish you all to evade the seasonal flu as easily as eels, to savor the mouth hug of a warm drink, and to have a warm, dry bed to snug up into.
If you’d like to scuttle down a rabbit hole of calendar history and why the toots we ended up with the one we did, here’s a dandy article.
xo, Khara