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Off to India again
Tod is taking his sabbatical and we are off to India for ten weeks. I’m organising the school outreach program at hillhacks in Dharamsala and after that, we will see where the monsoon winds blow us. What a great adventure!
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Unexpected body work
Yesterday in Yoyogi Park I was hula hooping while waiting for a friend when an older man holding some attractive red tasselled ropes walked over to watch. He looked interested, so I stopped and offered him a hoop, “Wanna try?” He shook his head and pointed at his back. “Oh, but it can be…
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49 becomes 50
Today’s my birthday; I’m 49. Forty nine’s a square, one of my favorite squares because 7×7 was the first part of the multiplication table that I memorised and always felt confident about. I loved that two pointy-angled numbers combined into two digits with the same shape – one pointed and one rounded. I don’t think…
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Scorching Orange and Mint Salad
We had a strange assortment of leftovers from a party, including a bag of oranges, a bunch of mint and and a whole jar of black olives. A friend recently returned from a trip to South America gifted us some unidentified dried chiles. This must be a salad! The addition of cilantro and salt rounded…
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The 2015 Equinox Storybook
At our annual equinox bbq yesterday, we collaborated on a short story. Each of us wrote a sentence then passed the book to someone else. The results are odd and probably say quite a bit about the mind of each writer. I did the illustrations this morning and photographed the pages. Things…
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1993: Sisters in Song
Cleaning out some of my photos and memorabilia, I came across this treasure. Me, Louise Zbozny, Shirley Mounts, and Jen Zbozny after our first place triumph in the Fiberfest Talent show. We performed a ten minute musical. Country girl (Louise) versus her city-loving sister (me) with Jen as our neighbor and Shirley as the Narrator.…
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Juggling in Yangon
I spent the past week in Yangon, Myanmar, for a juggling festival & social circus project organised by Serious Fun in Yangon. Me and two dozen other international jugglers flew in to do shows and teach workshops all over the city. We worked with disabled kids, a monastery school, rescued child soldiers, and the general…
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Reasonably Tidy
The living room circa 1978 “What sort of home did you grow up in?” a #minsgame friend asked me after describing her mother’s hoarding tendencies and the clutter she lived with as a child. A phrase popped into my head immediately. Mom described our house as “reasonably tidy” and I remember her making sure that…
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We won the #minsgame
Tod & I both played through the Minimalism Game this month with great success. 1576 items left our apartment in 31 days. What?! I started the game thinking I didn’t really have that much clutter and that reaching the goal – 496 items – was going to clear out my spaces very well. As it…
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Hisashiburi, Kimie!
Me, Kimie Yanagi, and Hanako Murakami. A few summers ago, or maybe more than a few, I was part of Hanako Murakami’s exhibition at the Echigo Tsumari Trienniale in Niigata. It was a great summer of making art and helping out with the festival in the tiny village of Matsudai. One of the residents, Kimie…
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