I wish I were here today…it sounds so interesting and vivid and enlivening…make sure to listen to the story, not just read it…(there is so much to be gained from the sound of voices and the sounds of place)… This is a view of Jaipur, courtesy of VirtualTourist.com – the journal page is mine.
Maybe it's the holiday season, maybe it's because it's winter, but my hands are itching to be busy. I'm working on a doll commission right now, with lots of beading. My son has gotten back out his sketch books for doodling all the inventions that are trapped inside his eleven year old mind. Even … Continue Reading
This week I celebrated fifty plus three turns around the sun and on that day Garisson Keillor read me the most beautiful Mary Oliver poem. And so I thought I'd share it. If you'd like him to read it to you, you can listen here. I've always been spellbound by the "murmurations" of Starlings that grace … Continue Reading
My teenage daughter came home with these recently. Cute, simple gloves until upon closer inspection you notice that there are little slits in the thumbs and fingers – for TEXTING! Ok, on one level this is really handy and cute and on another it has lead me to think about how technology changes our … Continue Reading
If you are like me, you have ducked away from the festivities on this day of thanks and feasting to check in with fellow bloggers. I for one am delighted to take a break and see what everyone is up to. I am thankful that I don't have to cook for the hoards, as we … Continue Reading
Way back in September I posted the picture above of the "Guardian Tree" at our new house, as part of Julie's bloglandia event, Getting Arboreal. The idea of this photography project was to choose a special tree and photograph it a couple of times over the seasons. You can find my first summer photos here, and a … Continue Reading
As all good synchronicity plays out, I was listening to NPR the day after I posted about my new tree friends, when this lovely story about the ancient trees in Great Britain came over the air waves. According to the forester being interviewed, ancient is older than 100 years. Some of Great Britain's oldest trees … Continue Reading
On a late July evening we had the pleasure of attending this year's Outstanding In The Field dinner again at the Munson Farm in Boulder (see last year's blog entry, here). We'd had such a cool and rainy summer, we hoped that those dark clouds would just stay as cloud cover. Looking back at the mountains … Continue Reading
I'm heading down the road today for a week in Taos. I'll be roaming the desert, making art, cavorting with friends and generally escaping the bounds of everyday life. I'll check in upon my return.
We were asked to write a story in preparation for our Anderson Ranch class, Drawing As Installation. It was to be about a childhood memory that could contain exaggeration, imagination and invention. It didn't have to be totally true, but needed to have a grain of truth in it. Here is my story. If you don't … Continue Reading