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We'll try this...
So I'll try this LJ app on my phone and see if it helps me keep this journal as a valid site for my own posting. I do a little better in the reading of others, still, but not really "enough" of that either.
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Excerpt from Joanna Macy's Active Hope
"When we come from gratitude, we become more present to the wonder of being alive in this amazing living world, to the many gifts we receive, to the beauty we appreciate. Yet the very act of looking at what we love and value in our world brings with it an awareness of the vast isolation under way, the despoliation and unraveling. From gratitude ( Read more... ) -
On Beauty (bell hooks from Art on My Mind)
"As feminist thinkers construct feminist theory and practice to guide us into a revolutionary, revitalized feminist future, we need to place aesthetics on our agenda. We need to theorize the meaning of beauty in our lives so that we can educate for critical consciousness, talking through the issues: how we acquire and spend money, how we feel ( Read more... ) -
Jury duty
I'm on jury duty in Baltimore City courthouse - 4,000 potential jurors stuffed into chairs in what looks like the extras casting office for The Wire ( Read more... ) -
Beautiful Day....
It's been more than a month since I posted, I've been really enjoying my tumblr sites, and so I've been posting a lot there. I have been keeping up with my reading (and sometimes even commenting!) on all my friends here, especially glad to have added some new LJ friends in the last couple of months (and glad to see some LJ friends from days gone by ( Read more... ) -
Almost done...
After a very full grownup day, after a very full grownup week, I still managed to put in six hours of additional studio work towards finishing the Passion piece - it is really almost done, done enough to be photographed tomorrow morning. I'm having it, and The Swarm piece, photographed professionally tomorrow morning (in DC)- I'm hoping to be up ( Read more... ) -
Cleansing Continued
When I sweep the floor of the studio, the dust glitters with countless spilled beads, buttons, and sequins, wrapped up with small pieces of many colored threads, handfuls of pins, all from the large fiber art pieces I work on, as well as scraps and slivers of textured paper that fell from the drawing table during collage work ( Read more... ) -
Young Alumnae Showcase
Last night was the Young Alumnae Showcase - which took me from winter break into four days from 7:00am till 10:00pm at work. In the rush to pull the performance together, the return to school was really rough. Last night, when a much better, fuller than last year's audience arrived, and the five short plays got under way, there was an ease to the ( Read more... ) -
Winter Break 1/2 Way Mark
I am feeling so much better - been to the gym, visited with friends, worked at least a little while in the studio almost every day. Yesterday, a little more than three hours working on my Nourished by my Passions piece, after having folded up the Shroud piece for this year. I'm reading a lot, currently the brutal plays of Sarah Kane, as well as a ( Read more... ) -
First Day Off Since...
Home today, first day away from campus since the Saturday before Halloween, was that the 29th? Before that day, we want two full weeks in a row without a day off, then it wasn't really a day "off" - just a day we were out shopping the show away from campus. So, this is really the first day of real rest since the beginning of October. (sigh) And ( Read more... )