a whole year
Last week I celebrated my birthday. And while it has not been the kind of month or year where I have had stretches of time for reflecting I have been thinking about the passing of time as I fold the laundry, plant the garlic, and make batch after batch of popcorn.
This newsletter in it’s current shape has also been making it’s bi-weekly launch out into the world since last August. I wanted to take this marker of my birthday to think you all for reading and to ask you to use the occasion to become a paid subscriber if you already aren’t. Or if it makes more sense in your life share it, or tell your friends.
Here’s why: This newsletter, this weird thing that materializes and lands with you with regularity is the result of making cultural work for twenty years! That is a surprising number! It is the result of hosting parades, film nights, classes, making art and making events and making something again. It is what creativity and shape shifting looks like overtime. This is what a studio practice of a parent with young children and extremely limited time looks like. And not only does that offer some point of return for many of you as you have expressed, it is a calling back of knowing, cultivating, and becoming with creativity over time as a way to come home to you and to myself.
Sometime in the future, there will be more shape, there will be classes. Books. Ways that we can spend time together and practice presence, wonder, and creativity. And for now this is shape! I invite you to support it as a way of witnessing unfolding and seeing the changes in yourself over time as important, maybe strange, and worth noting.
On my studio table are two empty bottles of vitamins that I have been moving around the house for a week in order not to forget to order them, also my child’s ripped pants, a cup of tea that has been cold for many hours but still tastes good. There is the herb textbook for the class I have been trying to finish up but really keep moving around to inconvenient surfaces with the hope the time will appear and I’ll see it.
This is where I work. I look out at the maple tree, the curly hazelnut. The weeds growing where I planted garlic a few weeks ago in the smoke. I make drawings. I work out curriculum for classes yet to be taught. I make spreadsheets that are colorful and daunting. I write this to you. I have no idea what the next year looks like but I am glad you are here.
Being and Breathing was so lovely. Subscribers will get access to this as well as everyone who came! Come to Being and Breathing! Can’t wait to see you there!
More classes are coming! I am working hard on them over here and can’t wait to share more soon.
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