monday

jenny lewis says:

if i run up hill, i'm out of breath.

if i spend all my money, then i've got no money left.

if i put all my chips on only one bet, then i'm all in....

[I've been running up the hill ourside my parent's house with Riva lately and keep thinking about that!]

we've made it thru our first weekend of shows. both were a big success-- many friends and much art passed along!

I've finally realized that I have indeed made a lot of work, enough for this coming weekend too. I'm also realizing that this new one-class-a-quarter plan means TRUE slowing down, TRUE leaving the rat race, TRUE living + feeling + being. I feel absolutely renewed, in the sense of "give me a clean heart. give me a clean heart. give me a clean heart, may i be born a new"

i have a million letters to send, emails to write up and bills to pay, but today is one of those fabulous specimins of a day when I know in my heart that everything will be okay.

there is another jenny lewis song that says : if you want better things, than i want you to have them.

I think that at a certain point we must say this to ourselves, and then commit to figuring out how to have those better things.... you do, in the end, have to look for your life.

my good friend Betsy played my her favorite jump little children song, a few years back now. the most stunning part of it goes: in the cathedrals of new york and rome, there is a feeling that you should just go home + spend a lifetime figuring out just where that is.

so here we go, n'est-ce pas?

adventures

right after I posted last week's blog, I got a call from Laura (one of my room mates). She was parked on the very top story of a parking garage and her car wouldn't start. I drove up there (abandoning my fears of such garages!) and we some how managed to jump start her car. Photo documentation of such an event is essential. below are our cars. above is a nice birds eye view shot of York Street.
since then, life has been significantly calmer. I'm getting into the new groove and it is fabulous. The weekends are really weekends, for the first (and probably only!) time ever. Pretty sweet. I'm loving CAD class. I think I might want to go into surface design after all! here is the repeat unit of my first pattern:
it's not completely colored yet........ But this little piece gets repeated as many times as needed to fill a space. I'll be sure to show you a bigger chunk later on.

I'm off to babysit Lyla. greatest baby of all time. xox