Foul mood this May Day....

Perhaps I am in a particularly foul mood this May Day. As I work my way through photos and text for my Digest I keep encountering memories of friends who struggled mightily, who were intelligent, who provided valuable and necessary work, and who were beaten down by the system for one reason or another. We must dissuade ourselves, our politicians, and our culture of the notion that if one works hard, has a good education and is of great benefit to our society, one will succeed, and be well rewarded, and if one doesn’t succeed it because one is lazy, and not willing to work hard, or get an education.

“All these adventures – and there were many – ended
with the ban on gill nets.
I stood at the fish house as the last basket of
mullet was hauled up and tried, like the men around me, not to cry.”.

Drascombe Dabber

This time of the year we have fantastic sailing weather in this part of Florida. Way back in the mid-‘80’s I did a story about that for SAILING Magazine, featuring my Drascombe Dabber and Cathy, who had volunteered to be part of the story. The Dabber is a fantastic small, open, British sailboat. I imported it while living in Hawaii. We brought it back to the mainland with us, and I towed it across the country and sailed it in New England, North Carolina, and Florida.

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Okay, so far it's taken me three zine dummies to work out all the kinks. That's a bit much. I am paying for not being organized and more methodical going into this project. But it's really fun too!

This is a screen shot of the layout for a new publication I am designing. It tells some of Suwannee Dawn's story, and how she grew up:

"The homestead set under large oaks. The bath house was the swimming hole which was right across the cabin. One bar of soap and a towel bathing under that big black velvet sky the light of the stars were like diamonds shining down on you." 

Judy - from my Blountstown portfolio. I ran across this 35mm negative, which I had never printed, while [continuing] organizing my contact sheets and negative.  Actually they are in good shape, I am just moving them from a bunch of small three-ring binders over to fewer, larger ones