December and January Zines

Posted on by Alexandra Schaefers
An illustration of a woman under oak trees with the text of the post poem hand-drawn between the trees.

I have kept the postcard zine for a full year! It was a long-cherished goal and I enjoyed it. I decided to end the zine to make books again because it’s more flexible. Here is the text in the art above, the finale of One Tiny Thing:

“I stop daydreaming long enough to hear the sound of the rocks under my feet and settle back into my skin. I admire the undulating trunks of the oaks shimmering in their green moss, steam rising off their limbs into the sun.

I stop along the trail and draw a tree. It is not a great study. I’m hungry, the high sun has washed out all subtlety and my attention span has left with the sparrows. Sometimes, it’s enough to do one tiny thing.”

October/November Zines

Posted on by Alexandra Schaefers

Here is the painting that made up the postcard zines for October and November, text below. Thanks for reading!

 “…shrank, leaving just enough space for two humans; the rest was wilderness.

All week, all I want is to be in the woods, to melt into Being and sketch the shapes trees make. But now it’s  Saturday, I am in the woods, and I’m wishing. Wishing I could share the walk with him—the sunlight, the temperature of my hands. 

Not so long ago I was alone. I don’t just mean that I was single, which I am still, despite the exciting emails. But I was trying to be enlightened and believed I shouldn’t need any of the  companionship I longed for. Instead, I took lots of ambling, wooded walks while solitude wove it’s poignant silver light into every leaf, bramble, and sliver of shade to buoy me with a sense of intimacy I sometimes miss now.“