Friday, April 13, 2012 - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM

New Leather iPad Brief

Two issues briefly

One. My new iPad is one slippery beast to handle. None of the many available covers and cases designed to solve that problem please me. I finally came up with a design that works for me a couple weeks back (more on that tomorrow).

Two, I still needed a case to serve as a slip case around the house and as a carry case to go wandering off to the coffee shop. I finally worked that issue out yesterday.

I ended up with a simple leather envelope with two pockets; one for the iPad and one for a small sketchbook/notebook. A flap that tucks inside around the house in slipcase mode and closes the envelope in travel mode. The leather is a piece of goatskin bookbinding leather with the rough, sueded, side out for grip.

Simple. I like it.

Night camp

Site 10 - Paseo del Rio Campground - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM

Verizon cell phone service - very good
Verizon EVDO service - very good
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Give it, Give it All, Give it Now

One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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