this morning i woke up and started reading from my Yalom book i FINALLY got in the mail.
i have an assignment in my COUN 500 class (intro to counseling: an art and science perspective) to read any book by any counselor/psychotherapist/psychiatrist... anyway, great book. the book is very similar (well, from what i remember as a 12(?) year old) to M. Scott Peck's People of the Lie. basically, it's different case studies from years in the field. Yalom doesn't seem like it will be as sensationalized, maybe because the descriptor isn't: the hope for healing human evil. (or then again, maybe it was the 12 year old in me...)
anyway, that was a huge digression... the beginning of this book, coupled with an email from barnes & noble, reminded me of a series of books i read my senior year at John Hathorn's, called Griffin and Sabine. The books are epistolary in nature; correspondence between an artist that makes postcards and another artist whom he has never met. the artwork of the postcards is interesting and the story that develops intriguing.
what really played upon my sentiments is that they are all handwritten and some letters are actually folded inside envelopes, which is much like a children's book i used to LOVE called The Jolly Postman
of course, the artwork and content in g&s leans more toward the adult world...
i ordered the books for my collection after having put it off for so long.
fast forward to this afternoon: i just sat down (& by just i mean an hour ago) to start working on tons of very long research papers and tests and homework assignments, when i stumbled upon this (internet=distraction). an epistolary movie of sorts. very nicely done. (i'm also a HUGE fan of stop-motion)
Bottle from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.
i think it's time for me to break out and send some snail mail. AFTER i do some research and write some papers and start that horribly dreadfully boring vocational rehab test.
