If you have begun a lenten journey this year, good speed to you. Maybe you gave up white chocolate. Maybe you gave up being mean to your husband. I gave up changing diapers, and began a one hour evening devotion to poetry and arpeggios. A big ha. Let me re-begin, the coffee isn’t yet working. [...] Continue Reading »
lenten journey for perfection and success (the very easy way)
4letter to a friend : advice rant on parenting
7as for advice…. me o my. My heart is full for new mothers. My experience of pregnancy, labor, delivery, and now this first year of motherhood has been more than I can effectively put into words. It has changed absolutely everything. Certainly for the better, though there have been lots of growing pains. It [...] Continue Reading »
artist statement : artifacts of us
4This work explores the confusion, uncertainty, and simple delights of operating within the traditionally feminine roles of homemaker and motherhood. Both the content and process seek to quietly protest the meaninglessness our society attaches to domesticity. The soft pallet, wavering lines, home fabrics, playful decorative marks, rough waxy varnish and wispy cursive text asks for voice without [...] Continue Reading »
resume going slowly
2It’s Friday. Even if that means nothing to your schedule, pretend it does. Put it in a solid, quit, and leave it. Tonight, do something you don’t have time to do. Ignore the messy house. Do something for old time’ sake. Get a little reckless (and by that I mean splurge, not go home with [...] Continue Reading »
all a flutter in here. and what about this rain?
2Because of the truck incident (see Wake Up Call) we didn’t get to go to the Hamilton family reunion this year. Levon worked that day and I felt rather mopey so I called Grandmother on the hill to hear about what food she was bringing. My Aunt Gail answered and we talked about the karaoke [...] Continue Reading »
letter to a friend: on how we might give a gift to the city with our art
0What if we… thought about art as a serious and valid means toward addressing our goals and mission. not just as a frilly, pretty, fluffy, extra attachment started an unofficial public art campaign. something that brought delight, loveliness, and thoughtful questions to our everyday environments and to all the (diverse) people who walk there. had artists [...] Continue Reading »
spartan merrymaking
4As you know, we’ve signed up to do a Spartan Race in August and so I’m on week 2 of my training. Some days I do the Spartan-recommended Work Out of the Day, but mostly I’m dancing. In classes yes, but also in the streets. I was inspired by that delightful youtube video featuring the [...] Continue Reading »
growing up (but not taking it too seriously)
1“Natural happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted, and synthetic happiness is what we make when we don’t get what we wanted. In our society, we have a strong belief that synthetic happiness is of an inferior kind.” (Dan Gilbert) A few weeks back, I listened to the TED talk this quote [...] Continue Reading »
taking in the moments and even the little spaces in-between
0Happy June and National Go Barefoot Day This summer I will be focusing on slowing down and being quiet. And so I took some time to think about how this will look for me: I’ll be including an empty space into my daily schedule. In this space I plan to be intentional about slowing [...] Continue Reading »
a poem: it will be okay and things always work themselves out in the end
0i don’t use question marks in my journal the curve isn’t something my pencil likes to make i find other ways to doubt and to wonder when i imagine a future anthropologist discovering my pages i think of the way he will write it down in textbooks that americans in the early 2000s used [...] Continue Reading »