45 Days of Winter Before Us, 32 Days Since We Started This Adventure, But Actually 90 Days of Winter Behind Us

Deep spiritual thought: “By setting the jumps too high and making the price tag too great, the recovering artist sets defeat in motion.” – Julia Cameron All of Cameron’s books are great, she is a big part of the reason I have been a functional artist all my adult life. That is, I make stuff, […]

Quarante-Six

Today we’re just going to be sad. It’s a sad time of year, mostly, cold, and our shoulders are tight and we are cold and for many of us, Valentine’s Day and no one romantically loves us, as if we needed a special day to mediate on that sourness, and others of us, who might […]

XXXXVII just kidding XLVII

I’m not going to lie to you. This part is not easy. February is the worst month of the year, by a lot. It’s going to require cruelty. Look at the cruelty of this little girl. Look at it! Something beautiful: Also it’s now appropriate to escape to a fantasy of tropicality/serious confrontation of violence […]

Forty-Eight

Today I was sick of the whole thing. Sick of long underwear. Sick of pants. I am a skirt girl, I have always been, but particularly since pants became too short for me, which was about age ten. It is really still too cold to wear skirts. I was many warm places today. I have […]