2011 Calendar

Yeah — I’m all done. Here’s my 2011 calendar…

listening around the bustle,
delighting in the commonplace—
the rest is noise.

For me, much of what makes life great is the series of simple encounters and observations I have every day — from the smell of freshly dug dirt in my garden to watching the birds at the feeder outside my bedroom to catching a glimpse of a saffron colored sky at sunset.

The calendar has 12 unbound cards, one for each month of 2011, celebrating those commonplace moments with a haiku and a pattern. It comes housed in a plastic case that doubles as a display stand.

Ten of the months are letterpress printed on a hand-fed (and foot treadled) vintage 1890s platen press on plush off-white cotton paper. April and September are printed on Japanense paper (moriki) and the design is hand-marbled with a technique called suminagashi. These two months are unique to each calendar. All the months are pictured below — click here to see a much larger photo. You can order a copy here.