Voices

I love this page. It was created after a talk with my husband about how we all think that we're "broken" (whatever that means) and in need of being fixed. I appreciate being able to translate deep discussions into meaningful journal pages.

I posted my classes for December and January yesterday. Yesterday afternoon my classes at Kept Creations in Whitman, MA were swapped. Instead of teaching the two day class, I am now teaching four individual classes. You can find out more information here. I apologize for any confusion. If you have any questions, please drop me a note. 

 

I received a gift in the mail today. It was something that I purchased last week for myself but it was a true gift, nonetheless. Katherine Dunn's beautifully illustrated and passionately written, Misfits of Love: Healing Conversations in the Barnyard. I've flipped through the pages several times and have read some of them repeatedly in the last hour since Tristan put the parcel in my hands. The money raised from the book sales helps the artist care and house old barnyard animals. I can't say enough good things about this book. I'm thankful to Joan Whitmore for posting about it.

I found this article, "The Nine Hundred Dollar iphone Photo", and loved how much this resonated with me:

"And yet for some reason, the more I look at the photo, the more it grows on me. It is not a perfect photo, but I am suddenly realizing that that is fine. We get so overwhelmed with everything in life being perfect that we forget that nothing is supposed to be perfect. Photos do not have to be perfect. In my sister’s “four-generation photo” taken with her own son and my grandfather, my grandfather is cheerfully sporting two black eyes that he obtained while falling down the previous day. The point of most photos is to say, “I was alive and you were alive, and for a period of time our lives overlapped. This is what we looked like.”"