In my way of thinking, you should never pass up an opportunity to do something weird. That’s why, for several years in my twenties, I carried a picture of a smiling monkey in my wallet near my driver’s license. Every so often, someone would see the monkey and ask, “What’s that?” This always amused me, and I would respond, with no further explanation, “It’s a monkey.”
A few days ago, I mailed a jigsaw
puzzle to my sister in Las Vegas. The puzzle did not fill the parcel mailing
box, leaving plenty of room for something else—a perfect opportunity for random
(weird) material. In the past, I have used pine cones, rocks, small stuffed
toys, and all manner of things that fit to act as packing. For this package, I
included the following: a package of dried minestrone soup (from Front Street
Market in Butte), two cuttings from a sprawling juniper near my house, and
chunks of agate I collected near my cabin and sliced with a rock saw.
I managed to take a quick snapshot of
the contents of my package before shipping. I am sharing that today.
—Mitchell Hegman
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