Beginning again

Hi,

The last of the Santa Rosa plums just dropped from the tree. They are sticky, sweet, deep purple drops, shared by the nectar loving bees and slowly ground into the gravel of the driveway. It’s deep summer here. The frogs are hiding under the weeds in the garden. Everyone’s shirts are stained daily with blackberries smeared by enthusiastic sharing from the new baby. The smoke cloud from the wildfires comes and goes leaving an acrid taste and coating everything in that familiar fine ashy dust

And I am starting a newsletter as a way to connect again, to reconnect, to look for new connections. As this liminal time of pandemic stretches on into what is nearly half of my five year old daughters life and spans the entire scope of the becoming of the littlest one’s existence, I think a lot about how sometimes time is forever and sometimes it is very fast. 

Here in this space, I hope to share writing with you in an ongoing way. I hope to hear back from you occasionally about what is happening in your unfolding life. I will share studio updates, current offerings, new and old projects, classes, and thoughts about living!

For now, here is what it is:

-This month with generous and enduring enthusiasm of Melody Overstreet, Full Moon is offering a monthly tea subscription. We’re excited because each batch is tiny and crafted with plants tended in our gardens or carefully foraged. It’s a chance to be light, agile, and responsive in our formulation by sending out something made especially for the time, which as we all know by now is a shifting animal. Get yours here!

-Beginning this spring as part of Full Moon's ongoing experiments to create an artist community that reflects the dreams and needs of working artists,  Iso Marcus and I have been been doing an experimental residency together and it is wonderful, a little strange, and feels like the beginning of what I hope for when I think of cultural workers supporting each other.

More soon! 

Xo,

C