Another entry in the intermittently active Bookmarks series. This is actually a receipt not a bookmark, but I’ll allow it.

Sixty years ago today, one of the two men I was named after — my Opa Nicolaas — dropped dead suddenly as he was getting into a cab in ’s-Gravenhage, his arms laden with Sinterklaas presents.

Last, next.

72: United States of Letterpress (Starshaped Press)
73: Nat’l Parks (Denali)

A late entry to the Bookmark project. I pulled a book off the shelf just now and stumbled on this:

Last, next.

71: Autumn Trilogy (Elm)
72: United States of Letterpress (Starshaped Press)

A Day in the Life
Minneapolis, 05:30 CDT

How I begin every morning

tea for her

coffee
and the blank page
for me

Last, next.

70: Kraft (lined)
71: Autumn Trilogy (Elm)

From 10 July to yesterday, I posted bookmarks from 43 different bookstores. Sixteen of them are closed and twenty-seven are still around. A better ratio than I was expecting.

But too many are gone without having been replaced, and we are poorer and more vulnerable for it.

And this brings us to the end of the run.

I will continue occasionally posting other bookmarks — and things that serve as bookmarks — as they turn up in my books. But I’ve posted something daily throughout April, May, and July–August, so I’m ready for a break.