Yes, This is a REAL Pencil...

DATE: 10/22/2011 02:55:46 AM ----- 

Every once in a while I come across something that reminds me that we all have gifts - no matter our circumstance, and we need to follow our passion - no matter how obscure. It is truly what makes the world a beautiful place: Waiting for my ride to the airport in San Francisco last week, I watched a man across the street going about his business dressed in cut-off jeans and a leopard tail; it gave his walk a certain swagger and made me smile. In the airport, I bought an activity kit called "The World's Smallest Postal Service" which contains everything needed to write teeny tiny letters and pack itty bitty parcels (including envelopes and miniature packing material for those fragile items) and I felt a special kinship with the person who could create such a wonderful thing. Her name is Lea Redmond, and she regularly sets up her miniature post office at coffee shops and transcribes tiny letters for passersby. At home, I was reading about folk artists and discovered the work of Dalton Ghetti. This amazing man won't sell any of his work (he even keeps a graveyard of pieces that break in-progress) but plans to donate the entire collection to a museum someday; that is one lucky museum! So tell me, what is it that YOU love to do? are you doing it? and if not, what's stopping you?

More of Dalton's work can be seen at http://www.daltonmghetti.com/index.asp

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