[stylist] R: Post Cards from Prague

[Lynda Lambert]

Thanks so much Atty! I appreciate your comments so much. those 7 minutes -
I wrote this in 1999 and revised it a little bit today. I saw some things 
that I wanted to tweak a little bit.  The poem is never really finished, it 
lives on and is always open to change - just like a good work of art.

I long to get this kind of post card from someone some day. Something that 
really means something. These days, we don't even get post cards - instead 
we get e-mails...YUK...how impersonal and tiring they are when people send 
them to us when they are traveling. I like the old fashioned heft of the 
card in my hand, and the hand writted words of a card or letter.

Lynda
Lynda Lambert
104 River Road
Ellwood City, PA 16117

724 758 4979

My Blog:  http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com
My Website:  http://lyndalambert.com






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "The Crowd" <the_crowd at cox.net>
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Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] R: Post Cards from Prague


> Hi Linda,
>
> I promise, no tackie jokes!
>
> I loved these post cards. Hard to pick my favorite, though those 7 minutes 
> touched something inside me that I could not explain.
>
> Atty
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lynda Lambert" <llambert at zoominternet.net>
> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 10:06 AM
> Subject: [stylist] R: Post Cards from Prague
>
>
> I was thinking today about the beginning of the summer, and the traveling 
> season we are now into for the next few months. Travel has always been a 
> central part of my own life and it still remains so even though I now have 
> sight loss issues. I find that I love to travel as much as I ever did, and 
> I enjoy where I am in the same way as before.
>
>
> I have attached a poem I wrote in Prague a few years ago. I was there 
> every summer for many years. I taught in Europe in the summer time and 
> took students there to study on-location in Italy, Germany, Austria, and 
> Czech Republic.  Our Course was "Drawing and Writing in Salzburg." We 
> lived in  a small village in the Alps in Austria and had classes there 
> every morning. We took long weekends to other countries together.
> The students traveled with me for a month of studies each summer in July.
>
> This poem was composed as we traevled in Prague and in the form of 
> individual post cards to be sent from there.  I imagined sending out 
> creative post cards instead of the typical ones that really say nothing at 
> all about the place or the person's internal dialogue with the place.
>
> I thought, wouldn't it be refreshing to get a REAL post card from Prague? 
> this motivated me to begin writing the post cards you see here.
>
> Is travel a theme in any of your work?
> I find that travel is really central to mine, even if it is a metaphorical 
> journey.
>
> This poem was published in my book, "Concerti:  Psalms for the Journey."
>
> Available through www.amazon.com
>
>
> Lynda Lambert
> 104 River Road
> Ellwood City, PA 16117
>
> 724 758 4979
>
> My Blog:  http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com
> My Website:  http://lyndalambert.com
>
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