shoe

found a lonesome gentleman's shoe in the park at night.  no shoelace or gentleman in sight.  he had flung himself over the parapet and surreptitiously vanished. i hope it was not our gentleman that lives in the attic of no. 31 ulice čechova.

snail mail

nice, calm day that got cold and started snowing again, but very quietly and without fuss.  discovered an antiques shop in malá strana with so many things in it: postcards, books, photographs, pins, smoking pipes, posters, tin boxes, skates, typewriters, puppets, and ten times less expensive than all of the antiques shops in the touristy old town.  i found a bag of mixed stamps, mostly from the 1960s and 70s, for just 100 crowns and now i am examining its contents at home. 

273 stamps from československo, 19 from the czech republic, 17 german (including 4 deutches reich stamps from the second world war and 5 stamps from the 1880s), 15 peruvian, 8 canadian, 7 slovakian, 6 bulgarian, 5 american, 5 english, 4 italian, 2 each from denmark, netherlands, france, belgium, and hungary, and one each from poland, russia, norway, australia, switzerland, vietnam, burma, cuba, madagascar, mongolia, indochine, and martinique.

čeština pro cizince

jmenuju se jelena bryksénková. nejsem češka, jsem cizínka. bydlím v praze sedm, ulice se jmenuje na výšinach. mám útulný pokoj v koleji mikoláše alše. studuju v ateliéru ilustrace a grafiky na vysoké škole umělecko-průmyslove v praze jedna u naměstí jana palacha. nemluvím česky a rozumím velmi špatně, ale jsem ráda, že jsem tady v praze. 

edward gorey

look what i found at fišer bookstore.  i was happy but also i wonder about how someone had to redraw some of gorey's hand-drawn type in czech...

postcards from prague

i found a used book store that also sells hundreds of soviet-era eastern european postcards.  i found some from prague and brno, so get ready for some interesting things in the mail, lovely friends.

prague, 1993

i found this photograph in a september 1993 national geographic today.