finding light
Sometimes I get bogged down in what I haven't done, what I should do, what I can't do, that I forget what John Dewey said: "We always live at the time we live, and not at some other time, and only by...
View Articlenarrowing
I forgot that the days were getting narrower. It explains so much--in the absence of snow or the very cold temperatures I am used to--about winter when I stop and realize the days have been shortening...
View Articledid you know
...that Brian isawesome?Now you do.* * *Thank you for your kind, kind words about St. Lucia yesterday.
View Articleeverywhere
I'm finding beautiful things everywhere these days. Beauty in finding my stride here--figuring out what I need to do to keep myself reasonably happy. Learning (every day) to live now, not to sacrifice...
View Articlekeeping out the cold, darlin'
I love that patchwork takes things I didn't think would work together and magically reconciles them, showing me the liasons between them I didn't see before. Here's my new 'window snake'--thingy full...
View Articlenow *you* can get a travel wallet
...and help take care of someone who supports us independent makers at the same time: Kati Kim.She's the owner of two shops in San Francisco, Doe and the Church Street Apothecary, that carry items by...
View Articlewaiting (it's oh so quiet)
My brother and one of his friends were here for ten days visiting, and it was nice to have people around to talk to, make fun of, play cards with...but after a little while I felt antsy to work alone....
View Article[de]lurk
apparently now's the time: say hello, yodel, send a passenger pigeon (or the equally extinct western union telegram?)! I'd like to know who you are, that you're out there, where you came from, the best...
View Articlemusic
Music plays a huge part in how I process the world. Like smell, it can take me back instantaneously to a place, a time, a person. The connections it makes for me are ones I both do and do not decide--I...
View Articleoh, students
One teacher asked me to give a lesson on Auden and Dickinson to his class, because they are doing a story by Sherman Alexie that mentions those authors. It was exhilarating to be able to talk about...
View Articlela vie en rose
What happened to me? Something has changed in my brain, in my body: I can feel the roots I am putting down in this place, where I was so unhappy at first. It is the language, it is friendships I've...
View Articlechange of plans
I will still be updating the shop, but it will happen on Monday; I've decided to go out of town for the weekend. So, Monday evening my time. There will be at least 5 travel wallets, maybe a 6th, if I...
View Articlewhew!
...it's finally here!I didn't get all the things I wanted to do done, so I'll be updating the shop again in two weeks (once I'm back from a long-awaited trip to England!) with lots of other things. But...
View Articlethis is how it works
On voudrait, on regarde, on sait qu'on ne peut en faire plus, et qu'il suffit de rester là, debout dans la lumière, dépourvu de gestes et de mots, avec ce désir d'amour un peu bête dont la paysage n'a...
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It comes out in less than two weeks (!). I'm leaving today for a trip to England with school, and then I'll be staying there to visit a college friend; then I'm going to spend some time in Paris. And...
View Articlebetter
Four days in Nottingham turned into two weeks. Lines crossing the canal, the Channel, the hexagon. Lucky: Sainsbury's (I love English grocery stores), seeing the swans, beautiful morning weather. Time...
View Articlebreaking
My computer is breaking, so I am taking a break. It was a panic thing on Sunday when it happened, but now I feel very calm and peaceful about it, and it seems like it will be a good thing. I will...
View Articlein the meantime
[my mom came to visit][we went to paris together][there is only one more month here for me][i've been working on this]
View Articleon beauty
For the last few years, probably about as long as I have been making clothes; or a bit longer actually, I have thought about dressing myself. What it means, what it can do for me, how I can use it as a...
View Articleabout today
I knew, of course, when I arrived, that today would eventually come. And, back in October, when I had no apartment, no easy way to stay in contact with my family, no community, no sense of my place, no...
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