Postcards have unexpectedly been a recurring theme for the past couple of weeks (e.g. sea grape leaves; shermania; boring postcards), so another coincidence carries me beyond the tipping point of posting.

What brings me to the topic at this late/early hour is a page on the The Center for Land Use Interpretation web site (http://cluistore.org/mepopo.html; I kind of like that: “mepopo.html”) — I was routed there by way of a post on the Rhizome.org news page — hocking a few sample postcard sets by the “postcard king of the west,” Merle Porter. He was a one-man postcard factory and at his peak, according to CLUI, he was driving 1,000 miles a week to take photos and circulating one million cards a year.
I have no choice but to completely respect someone who works with such apparent diligence at their craft for fifty years, and also hold out some hope that I may find a fraction of that kind of passion for something within myself.
(The CLUI online newsletter looks pretty neat too: http://www.clui.org/clui_4_1/lotl/index.html. Unfortunately there’s no feed or email notification, so you’ll have to remember to check back. Boy, am I getting mentally lazy or what?)