2012
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Discovering fire
Lurking, my darkness waits, camouflaged. Earthen, dead, and slippery. Blankly staring – I’m not always sure it’s at me. Hard sloughing skin for deep ice waters, or for rotting under a bright sky. It’s patient, poised… I’ve been mostly choosing to pretend I don’t see it, and just watch the seasons go.
Once in a [...]
Love, music, food. In that order.
Since we traveled (and traveled) away from home almost 2 years ago, music had to take a backseat to cakes and food – our business.
We brought guitars everywhere we went, but our amps just couldn’t fit in the Fit.
Now that we’re back home (for the moment) and have space to settle in, we’ve been laying [...]
Lists
Write in an indelible ink what you know is true: friendship, love, evil, light, music, art, beauty, integrity, passion, originality.
Believe in what is written strongly enough to have to cross it out and wear it forever.
Write in clay and graphite who and what you can forgive.
Pardon a fault. Erase it.
Trust that if it is written and [...]
Embrace the scanner within me
On the horizon of another move, and I’ve picked up another passion.
Eyes on the prize, Violet!
Binky 2012
In nearly 30 years of living, I still feel like a child, but I have picked up some wisdom. Here’s what I know, mixed in with some promises to myself for this year. Why the heck not?
Everything’s a trade-off
In the past couple of years, we
-left our jobs in NYC and our apartment in JC
-followed the [...]