I couldn't believe it--without asking me, yesterday Art, the volunteer who does art & frames, hung a damaged, handmade (1920s?) Japanese painted paper umbrella in the BOOK's, over the fiction.
Art and I spat sometimes, and we don't share the same taste--he likes clean lines only, while I like those, AND kitschy and worn out things.
He has started to show me ratty old things saying, "I knew you'd like this."
Usually he's right. And he was right:
I LOVE the umbrella.
More than you can tell in the photo I think, it makes the area feel different than the rest of the store--marked off, contained, and a little magical.
Like Blanche DuBois haning a paper shade and saying, I have created enchantment.
It was that sort of day yesterday.
After a lackluster meeting--Big Boss showed us a YouTube about Kaizen, the Japanese business strategy of "constant improvement" that a customer had told me about. A YouTube. I can see why he wanted me to do it instead.
BUT... besides Art (the volunteer), two other people spontaneously helped me---Ass't Man sanded the rough edge of a bookshelf, and Jesse put up a display shelf.
A prhase from Kaizen is,
"The work is where the work is."
Yes!
Here are some more photos of BOOK's.
I have to leave, so I'm dumping them...
HISTORY
