They really don’t make ‘em like Monsieur Foa anymore. He’s been a post
They really don’t make ‘em like Monsieur Foa anymore. He’s been a postal employee for 30 years, and thus has his chapter in the storied tradition of Blackfolks finding relative longevity and security in USPS employment. I consider him to be one of Stagecoach Mary’s descendants. And I count on him having an interesting snippet of postal history at the ready.This, my friends, is a recent gift from Monsieur Foa. M. Foa painted this himself, and it stays delighting me. I can’t wait to have a mail art studio to keep it in, although for now it looks quite fetching on my windowsill. There are a few material objects that you don’t really own–you just hold space with them, and are warmed and enlarged by their presence. It’s almost as we recognize each other and take each other’s measure–interesting to find recognition in a supposedly inanimate object, eh?I am quite animated by this gift–a fairy mailbox?–and am glad to have a talisman to remind me that is good to be this world of things.Merci, Monsieur Foa! -- source link
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