lindambarrett

time, time, time

Well - book 2 is done!

collage with time,time, time and other text - these covers turned out great!

 

Yes, the second in the series of "What would you do if you met yourself in time?" was completed on saturday.  I gave it to my friend kelly, who has made her way to baltimore for a conference in which one of the speakers (on my list of "wouldn't it be amazing if"...list)  is the much admired and respected Arch. Desmond Tutu - where upon yesterday the hand off was made to his handler's in the hopes of his contribution to the book! 

it feels like one more serendipitous opportunity has been presented...i've done what i dreamed of getting to do - present him with the book - now it is out of my hands.

i do so hope though that he would oblige, with his remarkable experiences i believe we would all find his comments intriguing.

fingers crossed.

love your life and do good! cheers,

linda

the first contributor - my mom!

This book is a part of series of 5 books. Each is a collaborative venture between myself and 24 other people. Each book asks the question:

"What would you do if you met yourself in time?" 

Inspired by a letter from Robert Frost to his editor (which I have featured at the bottom of this post). Four books will ultimately be sent in a different direction heading North, South, East and West.  

I took the "South" book to Florida for the first contribution to be made by my mom. 

Here are some of the photos of the finished covers on the "South" book - each book will be slightly different on the covers, so stay tuned for the next one.

  

 the back /front covers with hand writing -scanned- over a collage of deconstructed clock - representing time...
 

 

plus a few shots of the interior page numbers 

and colophon page.

As each contributor finishes their page, I have asked that they log onto the blog to add their comments and to tell me where the book is presently. 

I can't wait to see where the book goes next. 

Inspiration

 

 

Here is the letter, which inspired the question presented for this book, from Robert Frost, of the

"The Road Not Taken", to his editor Susan Ward, written in 1911.

 Two lonely crossroads that themselves cross each other I have walked several times this winter without meeting or overtaking so much as a single person on foot or on runners. The practically unbroken conditions of both, for several days after a snow or a blow proves that neither is much traveled. Judge then how surprised I was the other evening as I came down one to see a man, who to my own unfamiliar eyes and in the dusk looked for all the world like myself, coming down the other, his approach to the point where our paths must intersect being so timed that unless one of us pulled up we must inevitably collide. I felt as if I was going to meet my own image in a slanting mirror. Or say I felt as we slowly converged on the same point with the same noiseless yet laborious strides as if we were two images about to float together with the uncrossing of someone's eyes. I verily expected to take up or absorb this other self and feel the stronger by the addition for the three-mile journey home. But I didn't go forward to the touch. I stood still in wonderment and let him pass by; and that, too, with the fatal omission of not trying to find out by a comparison of lives and immediate and remote interests what could have brought us by crossing paths to the same point in the wilderness at the same moment of nightfall. Some purpose I doubt not, if we could but have made it out. I like a coincidence almost as well as an incongruity.    ~ Robert Frost

 

Please feel free to share your thoughts on the question posed...

"What would you do if you met yourself in time?"

Cheers,

Linda