"This work is unlike any other, in its range of rich, conjuring imagery and its dexterity, its smart voice. Carroll-Hackett doesn’t spare us—but doesn’t save us—she draws a blueprint of power and class with her unflinching pivot: matter-of-fact and tender." —Jan Beatty
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Wrapping presents 🙂 I’ve never before managed to have them wrapped this early LOL Make art about something kept under wraps.
Dec 19
“That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Made Garden Vegetable Soup for me and my son.
Make art about soup.
Dec 20
Read a new story this morning about someone carrying a belief in a conspiracy theory too far. Make art about conspiracy.
Dreamt the walls of my bedroom melted away and I found myself surrounded by a herd of gentle deer, with their liquid eyes and dancer feet. They nuzzled me with velvet snouts, and whispered Welcome Welcome. We picked our way through a twilight wood, until the trees opened up into broad sweet-smelling fields. And then we ran, and ran, and ran. 🙂
Up to my eyes in grading for the end of the semester. Make art about a teacher, or teaching.
12/10/2015
Doing an Interview Skills Consultation today. Make art involving questions and answers.
12/11/2015
Last day of grading, semester ending. Make art about something coming to an end.
12/12/2015
Had the most amazing conversation last night, with two young men servin in the Army, both scheduled for deployment in the next few months. One of the young men openly talked about the role faith plays in his life. He spoke with deep compassion of even the enemy he has trained to engage, and I was humbled and awed at how much grace and humanity these young warriors show. Make art about warriors.
12/13/2015
Make art about decompressing.
de·com·press
(dē′kəm-prĕs′)
v. de·com·pressed, de·com·press·ing, de·com·press·es
v.tr.
1. To relieve of pressure or compression.
2. To bring (a person exposed to conditions of increased pressure) gradually back to normal atmospheric pressure.
v.intr.
1. To adjust to normal atmospheric conditions after being exposed to increased pressure.
2. Informal To relax: decompressed after 12 hours of driving.
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