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Promotional Memo Books Collected by Field Notes Co-Founder

Today I was privileged to touch a bunch of close-to-a-century old memo books.  They are part of the huge collection of promotional memo books distributed to American farmers over the last hundred years by seed, tractor, and other agricultural companies.

Collected over the years by Field Notes co-founder Aaron Draplin, some of them are being scanned and shown in the Field Notes Memo Archive, I'm sure there will be some kind of exhibition coming up in the future.

We've sold Field Notes for a while in our retail chain, but it was not that popular and the whole story was never being told to our customers due to lack of proper display.  I'm working on a better solution and plan to re-introduce them soon in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

In the mean time, check out Aaron's video about these beautiful story telling memo books.

 

Tangled

So out of touch with you all for a long while, currently in a very difficult and high pressure situation which work volume is humungous and somebody in my team is leaving too, not to mention Dad's health.  Meditation has been helpful to bring calmness, still meeting a lot of great people and loving my work.

Talking about calmness, relaxed focus, Zen and Tao, it was probably no coincidence that I bumped into Richard Zawitz the other day who is currently exhibiting his work in IFC Hong Kong.  It is kind of synchronicity to me, people you met in life would mean something at the beginning, but turns out a few minutes of re-encounter years later could mean an entirely new thing, just in time when you are in need.  I met Richard 6 years ago when we had business selling his ingenious creation - Tangle.  (Sorry Richard, this photo made you look older than your typical handsome look :)) This encounter got me into thinking deeper into this earthling's journey and the reason why we met again.

Did you know I work for two departments called "Station(a,e)ry" and "Moving"?