i 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 »
a poem: it will be okay and things always work themselves out in the end
0“why you gotta be so mean” -taylor swift (and before you scoff, read on)
16A couple of weekends ago I went to a Natural Parenting Expo. The good things about this were: I met up with some delightful friends No one minded when I let Addair Kentucky nurse in public I bought two new diaper covers (the next size up!) without having to drive to the store I got [...] Continue Reading »
sea haze with cape storm
2I heard on a podcast (On Being again, this time an interview with a neuropsychologist Rex Jung) that creativity is the ability to let the knowledge in your brain mingle. Hmmmm. In other, On Being news, I’ve been encouraged to start back on a meditation practice. During my meditation time I’ve been working toward becoming [...] Continue Reading »
zeal without knowledge
3“It is not good to have zeal without knowledge, nor to be hasty and miss the way.” Proverbs 19:2 This was how the morning started, reading my daily Proverb (31 days, 31 chapters), and looking out at a cold morning as I built up the woodstove. I made coffee and watched my fire flicker [...] Continue Reading »
today is for breathing
0This morning I worked on a cover design for a book of poems. I’ve been collaborating with the author over the last month or so and these are the places the work is taking me: to quiet to acknowledgement of the futility of perceived control to a respect for wildness and our inability to tame [...] Continue Reading »
most days i feel neon ochre and fawns look fragile but aren’t really
0I’ve been working with a poet to illustrate her poems. A tiny snippet of a sneak peak: [ from ashley who is listening to Mildred Bailey (Christmas in New Orleans) ]
living in this season
0“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it…Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well [...] Continue Reading »
quiet moments are significant even when no one notices : pictures i like
0appreciating Henry Darger working slow and steady and taking breaks breathing getting larger and stretching pause [ from ashley who is listening to The Strokes (Is This It) ]
video blog: Levon gives a mason jar tour, plays a song, and talks about paintings
2People, I got in trouble for making this video. The inclination came to make it and I just did, but didn’t clean the house or anything. Man, you got a warn a lady before you just walk through the place with a camera, especially if she’s in the state that Ashley is (and by that [...] Continue Reading »
pluralists: a music video
2Lets all be pluralists and turn off the TV we’ll seek the common good, embrace diversity there’s more than one way to see, there’s mine and yours through the eyes of me Lets all be moderate and make a bubble bath we’ll keep it cool enough that nobody gets mad and keep your hands where [...] Continue Reading »