—line 01— I have been calling these little paintings “inner landscapes” but what came to me today is that they are “mountains of a desolation.” These paintings – they are a thing to make, when I don’t know what to make. I’ve been making these because I like making them. I like how they look. I like seeing the layering… Read More »Lines – on desolation and the Dark Night of the Soul – October, 2026
Re-roofing our house the past six weeks has been a beast of a project. I do not recommend it! There were days where the thought of hauling myself up a ladder one more time made me nauseous. The Youtube algorithm will forever populate my page with roofing videos. But it’s pretty much done and it looks good. Thanks to my… Read More »August 2026 – staying creative through drudgery
I am not a licensed, bonded, trained professional handyman or contractor. I have never worked in roofing or construction or anything remotely related. But a couple of weeks ago I went to clean the gutters and found several dislodged shingles, I knew it was time. I’ve been sitting on replacing this old roof for a couple of years (the roof… Read More »Attack One Thing Today – Especially If You Don’t Want To Do It
What do you do with your old written journals? I have filled Moleskines and various paper journals dating back to 1998. Almost 30 years of writing. When I fill one up, I go get another one. And my daily writing practice has continued on to this day. I had been kicking around projects for a couple of years. Maybe I’d… Read More »A Ritual For Releasing Old Written Journals
the paradoxes of the past month – this and that, ups and downs, vignettes and noticings, restarts and failures, lightness and dark, peaks and valleys, despair and hope, love and hatred, seen and unseen, shadow and more-shadow, heartbreak/awake.
When I was in college, we went out to a local bar that had karaoke. I had never done it. My roommate put in for Around the Way by LL Cool J, and dragged me up on stage to do it with him. There were so many reasons to not do this: Neither of us really knew the lyrics. White… Read More »Gratitude for Karaoke