Episode #197: Thank Yous, Youse

Howdy folks:

Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 197. This one’s subscribers only. Click the player above to listen.

Today I got to thinking—and then talking—about thank you cards and thank yous and how whether you mail it or you click it you can never say thank you enough. Although taking the time to use pen and paper and a stamp do add a special degree of sincerity to the act.

And for today’s marginalia, rather than the usual notes from the text of the book, I stuck with the “thank you” theme and annotated the acknowledgments page from Montaigne in Barn Boots.

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Today’s essay is from the book Million Billion. The paperback, Kindle and other ebook versions, as well as all of Mike’s other hardcovers, paperbacks, and audiobooks are here at the Sneezing Cow store.

All the books (including the ones featured on the postcards below) are here.

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Promotional postcard, October, 2003.

I’ve always been unduly proud of sneaking the pink trike into frame as a symbol of the children. The coop is still in business in our neighborhood.

By the time Coop came out, I realized if I changed the layout of the back of the postcard—leaving more space for writing—I could use the leftover ones as branded thank you notes.

I think this one is stark and beautiful. Powerful design by our friend RT at KNorth Studios.

Opted to trade note space for the chance to promote four books in one.

MARGINALIA:

Montaigne in Barn Boots thank yous.

Montaigne in Barn Boots acknowledgments, page 2. *Chapter three is about absentmindedness..

Thank you, folks. Yes. Thank you.

Mike