date: october 1987

from: the adirondack museum, blue mountain lake, new york 12812

to: elizabeth hock in hoboken, new jersey

text:

wed 1:00 p.m.

hi little red,

i've taken a break from my ride at the museum. stayed at a motel last night. i was very tired and hadn't had a shower since friday. it was a good move 'cause it rained last nite. today it has threatened to rain but hasn't. the weather has been great and my new gear is wonderful! we will have to come up here together in the winter, its beautiful. i miss you sweet potatoe :) love, nick.

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i think it's pretty obvious why i bought that postcard, it speaks to me and makes me so sad because it was an object that must have brought happiness to this girl elizabeth only 22 years ago. she must be in her 40s so i wonder why and how the postcard ended in junk. i wish i could trace its history, but how? the only thing i can do is respond to it. i bought it to rescue it from its abandonment, to adopt it/give it a new home. i also bought it because due to my circumstances i can relate to it, i see myself writing similar things, not in postcards but in e-mails. i kind of wish it was objects like postcards though, my e-mails won't even end in a store like junk, they will end in the ether and no one will be able to rescue them from their abandonment.