Bad day. Unusually cold last night for the outer banks and freezing temp broke a water pipe and water came flooding into my living room and over priceless signed books now drying all over the house. Fortunately the gushing water missed the spot where all the prints and books some of you purchased at Christmas were sitting and my team works away wrapping, labeling, mailing . It’s a factory working away on top of a disaster area. Right in the middle of this nightmare I get bad news about a serious tech issue that could shut Burn Magazine down. However it’s warmed up, the sun is shining and a warm fire burns. I am sure things will end up fine. A bump in the road. Some books are just gonna hv wrinkled pages. I’m gonna go watch the sun go down. #burnmagazine #obx
amigo, who knows better, if not me, what it means to lose things to life, to broken water pipes, to the wayward things of life…..let me just remind you of that…..and this simply: one name Miguel Rio Branco…..whose entire b/w life’s work and archive was lost in its entirety to fire…only to rebuild from the phoenix delerium of ash to set his afoot anew with color……and who better than you to understand what rebuilding means….no such thing as loss when it comes to books…..you have your health, your sons, your granddaughter and the sun swinging low..besides, theere are no bad days when you and the loved ones are filled by breath…this week, brother’s wife burrying his papa in Charlotte….all is good amigo, i know you know that….text u later….xoxoxo
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I’m sorry for your loss, but you seem to have the right kind of attitude for handling it. A long time ago, my van caught on fire during a cross country move and just about all of my stuff burned up. For years, I’d wonder where something was and then remember. Currently, almost all of the stuff I owned in New York is in a shipping container being held for ransom in a port in Central Africa, so I’m getting practiced at being able to let go of material things, and such. Oh, and closer to your disaster, the hot water heater in my house broke on New Year’s Eve and flooded the basement while I was in the middle of a major re-ordering, thus catching many boxes of books and albums on the floor. So the new year ended like the old, bailing water, and losing more stuff.
Anyway, it’s all something one could easily whine about, but I don’t give that stuff much thought. It’s just stuff. People, on the other hand… there are more and more I miss every year.
Bad day indeed! I never realized it got so cold in the outer banks. Sorry to hear about this and worse about Burn!? How can we save the ship?
Good grief! That’s all very rough, but Burn shut down over a tech issue? Unthinkable! Anyway, not to be selfish, but I’m glad my Trinidad print will still arrive in the mail.
And, if this might cheer you up a bit, I promise to send you a pdf of my next magazine before the weekend ends. Visually, I could have sent it to you weeks ago and it has only a few words, but I have not yet made those words say what I want them to say. Its the dark time of year, that’s why. But, I want it out by an event that begins Feb 9, so whether I am happy with it or not, I’ve gotta wrap it up and get it to the printers.
I’m shocked. Your place houses so many priceless treasures. We were down to 18 that morning, so you must have been a degree or two colder up there. I hope your transparencies were spared, and this doesn’t happen again. That’s about as cold as it gets here on the OBX.
How can we help?
We are ready …what ever you need…together we can do miracles!
Really sorry to hear about the damaged books. Hope they all dry out well. I did notice someone on Instagram who suggested a method with distilled water and ironing the damaged pages which ironed out the creases.
Can we help in any way with the Burn tech problem?