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On the faucet installed on a bathroom sink, but it will be so useful– rinsing and washing art, dishes, and a dirty Kathy. Crazier still I intend to hook a little kitchen hot water on demand to it and wallA!...

Ok.

11 Jul 2010

I just saw a cow stuck between two trees that seem almost ajoined at their bases and flair apart as they reach for the sky.. Said cow is wedged hip deep, her hip bones preventing her from moving forward and...

Awe. I am dirty and sweaty which naturally means it was a good day.

11 Jul 2010

Let's see…i hung some screen doors (harvested from the city’s reuse center designed to reduce flow to our ten active Houston landfills=free) on my studio. Ah, perfect fit and color coordinated. And the joy of drilling through porcelain tile (sarcasm)...

Yes. I think this is so…

“You will only grieve something that means something to you…Grief is actually a way of honoring” Yup. But I do need to keep getting on with it. I do need to really reestablish living outside of grief. It is time...

The Journey (by Mary Oliver

07 Jul 2010

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice— though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my...

need to get back to morning writing and not blogging.

07 Jul 2010

yup. i picked up 750 pounds of black rubber refuse today because someone thought of me when they received the truckload (not a pickup truck) :) it was stripped off the side of a building and functioned as waterproofing. manufactured...

the door is shut

06 Jul 2010

thank god the door is closed. that statement/thought seems so wrong. i don’t want to thank him because it feels wrong to be grateful; it feels unloving to be grateful; it feels belittling of the door’s attendant, whom I have...

artificial constructs.

06 Jul 2010

others’ false constructs built about another person as a coping mechanism are so startling; these defense mechanisms used to try to hold one’s own image of the self together seem so incredibly human though. most these mechanisms were learned in...

Rationalizing Anger

04 Jul 2010

“You can prolong your anger by rationalizing it or blaming others for it rather than accepting full responsibility for your part. To rationalize something means “to cause it to seem reasonable,” when it may not be reasonable at all. Listen...

Awe. My cacti growing, still, even while I was away

03 Jul 2010

i find this incredibly amazing and hopeful in spite of houston’s humidity that these remnants of frozen cacti could simply be tossed into a heap atop trashed inner tube tires AND GROW! some things are incredibly resilient, others are not....

I-Park residency experience

03 Jul 2010

art, artist residency, i-park

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Landed 4,500 miles later…

02 Jul 2010

Not as far as 2004, 2006, or 2007. Perhaps it means I am not done this year. I see a tent in the woods, under starlight, atop a mountain in my near future. Hike in the morning, reading in the...

Another day

01 Jul 2010

Of driving and the retelling of family lore. Hope my steel sieve Mellon head holds the memories. Of course that is one of the many reasons I write–to store memories else they are simply lost in my unretrievable data banks0

Day whatever and the world is flat

29 Jun 2010

A day and a bit out from h-town. Flatness. The terrian seriously shifted flatward after Alabama. The only topographic elevation change beyond bridge abuttments (ha sometimes it’s funny when you bite at spelling…and trust me I also really wanted to...

Day 6 — no way!

28 Jun 2010

A $50,000 mule!!! ? Omgosh primping for the camera a show mule???? Dang.0

Day 5 — rolling early, rolling loooonnng!

27 Jun 2010

From here to there and back landed just outside oakridge, final home of the manhattan project. I did not get the nuclear, physics, radio or engineering gene. A trip down nuclear family history lane…grandfather, nuclear physicist, 1930-1960, dad grad training...

Day 4 — Ligonier, PA

26 Jun 2010

Beautiful little town, kinfolk, Garrison family history (paternal grandmother’s side), home of Arnold Palmer, and a kazillion touring motorcycles passing through, the weekend warrior dr and lawyer types out for a scenic weekend ride. Location:Indian St,Ligonier,United States0

Day 3 — meandering return trip

26 Jun 2010

dad moves boulder from road so we can pass (click to see rest of images for the day if you’ve a hankering. you should understand this to be a strong hint that these are typical family trip photos. avoid if...