The following is a letter from my mom, each of my siblings got one. This Mother’s Day weekend I’m feeling honored to get to celebrate alongside people like her: Mother’s Day is coming up, and I thought I should tell you what I want. This way there’s no guilty panic or last minute purchasing of [...] Continue Reading »
mother’s day weekend
8what i’m reading and a list of thoughts
6“give warm greetings and farewells” -Gretchen Ruben, Happiness at Home 1. I’ve got a couple shows opening up next week. details later 2. Being cold makes everything harder 3. I can’t fix people. Why is this so hard for me to understand? 4. I’m feeling insecure and sensitive. 5. It’s dandy to have a fire [...] Continue Reading »
letter 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 »
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 »
backpack junky dad and the Deuter Kid Comfort II
7I’m a backpack junky and I always have been. A gear snob of the most fastidiousness. But since my youthful discretionary income halted around 2003, my top-of-the-line gear is now reaching “vintage.” Of course that makes the snobbery worse. For example, my expedition size pack (yes I have a specialized pack for every size trip) [...] 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 »
listening
8things I thought about writing: on being alone whatever the funk this season is what Sarah Kay is teaching me failing. accepting this and what to do next 5 months old. he’s that old and that beautiful. almost my birthday and so sweet things to be grateful for but, I think it may be time [...] 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 »