594. Kola Kola Ziola
Now traveling along with us on the open road

This title stamp was something that I originally carved for the 2015 Wheels event in MA, but deemed it far too crude for all the fancy new wheels that I knew would be showing up there. Actually, it was the first thing that came to my mind when thinking of something that I could possibly carve related to wheels because of an old poem called "przez kresy" by Jozef Czechowicz that repeats the word for wheels in Polish several times over, along with other Polish words of similar resonance ("wheels, wheels, weeds … i invoke the golden round pastry bread" - "kola kola ziola…wolam zloty kolacz"), sort of like waiting for dawn's golden orb (and breakfast! ) after a long long boring twilight ride across the seemingly endless plains. It also reminded me of the way that we have seen people at "stamp gatherings" monotonously "spinning their wheels", stamping their books with page after page of stamp images in a kind of "zombie-like hypnotic state" reminiscent of the sleepy "half-life" ("senne polzycie") mentioned in this poem - instead of having it dawn on them to wake up to the golden opportunity of going off on a real full-fledged letterbox adventure! At any rate, though, this stamp is certainly not one of the sort that "stamp collectors" would want, but if any letterboxers would care to get this stamp if they meet us while we are in the actual process of letterboxing or traveling through "on the road," then we would surely be glad to share our simple daily bread and this old cart wagon!

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