A Treasury Of… Minneapolis Fashion and Interior Design Blog

The latest in the line of Treasury reader Holiday Wish Lists: Mitch Frank, a who-knows-what from who-knows-where who clearly has a taste for the finest things both man and nature has to offer us.

“Rounding out my kit:

1. This coat. I dearly hope that Folk expands to the US in the near future. I dig them to death. Their priorities are straight and I’d buy almost anything they make. They have the fabric, the fit, the details….This coat in pertickler is beautiful, and I need a beautiful coat in pertickler.

2. A pair of boots. I think the Alden plain toe boot is basically the boot. The Boot. I want any of them.

3. These wingtips. I’d like to throw my weight behind some young, new shoe outfit. But as long as Alden makes shoes like these, there’s no point.

4. A sweatshirt that fits right. A sweat like this could split duty as a nice sweater and a grease-monkey pullover. When you think of it that way, it’s a steal at twice the price! No it’s not. It’s absurd, but I still want it.

Literacy:

1. These nature ID books are the most useful ever. They’re like choose your own adventure books, sort of: ‘if the tree you’re looking at has rough bark, go to page 3. If it has smooth bark, go to page 5.’ And so on, until you narrow it down to the tree you see. Super easy, super gratifying. Plus, trivial knowledge is my favorite accessory.

2. Charles Causley is the most accessible good poet of the last century. I am telling you so. You’ve never heard of him because he spent his life teaching grade school in Cornwall. Where is that, even? I don’t know. King Arthur is from there, I guess? Anyways, the important people of poetry say that Mr. Causley wrote nursery rhymes for adults, but the man himself said he recognized no distinction between his children’s poems and adult poems. And they’re really powerful because of that — because they walk and talk like nursery rhymes, but then all of the sudden you’ve read a poem about destitute, bombed-out southern England after WWII and you feel pretty bombed out yourself. And that is how I like to spend my afternoons, sometimes.

3. Dinosaurs are so cool. I want to be one when I grow up.

4. Aldo Leopold intended to write a textbook for the newly formed US Parks service, but he ended up writing this, which should be America’s claim to philosophical fame instead of that highfalutin’ stuff from Emerson and Thoreau. I mean, the ethics of nature is one of America’s great contributions to the world, and this books is the best expression of it. Oh my gosh, it is so much better to read than I am making it sound. Anyways, I love it but I don’t own a copy, so I want to fix that.

Breaking The Bank:

1. A really good camera. There were some game-changing developments in the digital camera world this year, and I’d really like to own one of them. It’s probably good that there’s no way I’ll get one of these in the foreseeable future — by the time I can afford one, maybe they’ll have all the bugs worked out.”

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There’s still time to send me your Wish Lists, fellow Treasurers. I’m pretty much open 24/7.

Indexed Under: Happiness, Holidays, Materialism