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I haven't rambled on daily life in a while so if you're interested in what I'm doing and what I'm reading, here you go..Currently...

The house is becoming unbearably messy.The pace at which I fix things cannot compare to the speed of the entropy and I just don't feel like spending the days cleaning. I feel accomplished when I at least find the energy to do the dishes but when I look back the sink is always full of them again. The laundy piles remain at a constant mountain despite feeling that we're constantly doing laundry. But that's just the bare minimum motion of maintenance....the rest is in complete disarray.*sigh* Soon it'll have to be dealt with..as visitors and family are due..

Outside the light purple tall irises have bloomed again and are now on their end days, the shorter dark purple irises have just come out...and the big purple/fuschia snowball bushes are in glorious full bloom. The side yard is being overtaken by wild strawberry and clover....I'm really ambivalent about weeding....who am I to say who should live and who should die? I took out a bunch of weeds from the flowerbed but felt sad doing it. Everything a metaphor and heavy. sorry neighbors.Anyone have some good perspectives/philosophy about weeding?

Studio is sealed off for the resin pours. Been working on a series of baby pieces..brought a few inside to work with the drawing layers....my current favorite of which looks like a strange alien head based on an aerial of Epcot Center...it's so bizarre.

Library trip resulted in a new pile of books to add to my half-read list.
Still in the slow midst of:
Suburban Safari
DeKooning's Bicycle
and Annie Dillard's For the Time Being (reread for the strength and perspective)

now also in the midst of a reread of
Jane Jacob's The Nature of Economies (it was calling me strongly- something I needed to remember)

I'm going to try to focus on getting through with that batch at least...but I've also ended up bringing home others that will have to wait:
In the Palaces of Memory by George Johnson
and some books on Trash and Recycling to poke through:
Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
Choose to ReUse (resource book mostly brought for Brent who I knew would love the practical format).

thoughts swirling in my head are what more can be done for uplift at the dump communities around the world. Cooperative Craft enterprises. Support structures created of recycled material and waste materials....in biology (endo and exoskeletons evolving of calcium deposits) and in sociology..the recycling economy..from ragpickers to artisans to

Being drawn to more image input of radiolaria and diatoms...

A trip to my own dump to bring recycleables resulted in a find of a lovely small vintage children's book...water damaged in parts...which at home I cut out images from for a project to be...many possibilities...cards, journals, collage...they are so SO adorable, you will see.

At night we watch part of the beautiful film on Andy Goldsworthy Rivers and Tides with an easy dinner of hummus, cucumber,onion, yogurt and dill wraps. I work on designs in my CoopaCraft sketchbook, using thin paper scraps and thinking of card and pillow designs...

Handwriting another letter to accompany Bridges Across Borders newsletters sent to a special friend.

I've got another resin pour to do today and then Esperanza is coming over tomorrow to take some works for the Affordable Art Fair in NYC.... I've got to write/send an announcement/evite about that. Please go buy my art and/or tell others to. Income very needed. thankyou.:)