Might work at Mother's Market, as a personal artist's assistant, a kid's drawing teacher, or at a craft gallery. Summer offers an urban gardening job in LA. Bought a woodburner, and rachel is giving me a typewriter (hooray!). i still struggle with the thought of sticking around for a while, though my friends here are beyond wonderful ( Read more... )

spent the weekend in a gorgeous remote cabin in the catskill mtns with 20 people and paint and a hot tub,
the next week will be all packing up and playing,
hopefully wine touring and fishing and swimming and drinking around fires,
and i also really want to play a giant game of kickball.

i am shocked to the point of resignation that this is my LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL EVER ( Read more... )

happy holidays, campers!

Then ( Read more... )

the semester is over and i can finally take a deep breath of peppercorn and eucalyptus california air. for the first time i feel like i can reconcile my two homes now, taking things back from one and applying them to the other harmoniously ( Read more... )

it's official, i'll be home from december 15th until january 3rd. then i'm off to drive to New Orleans for a couple weeks to help out with reconstruction and such. wish us luck, and pray that i don't die in a hideous car crash or from some awful mold infesting my bronchial tubes ( Read more... )

People are so important and wonderful to me.

You've got to hold on to them. But only long enough
for them to remember they're part of the Family,
the whole lot of you on an upward slope,
trails barely detectable
and never understood.
And then you must let go,
and press on,
taking care to look up and see those ( Read more... )

What is this here ( Read more... )

so i decided against the kitchen floor update. instead, things that i have become unabashedly addicted to recently ( Read more... )