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True North: Parent, A Verb
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Laquo; Not My Job. Lessons from the Studio ». April 13, 2015. Parent, A Verb. Is to screw up,. To fuck up, . To get it wrong. That is the price of admission you pay. To enter the carnival of wild, intense love and devotion that is having a child,. However that child came to be yours. Whether through the insane miracle that is biological creation,. The insane miracle that is adoption,. The insane miracle that is falling in love with a childs parent and falling in love with the child, too,. Parent, A Verb.
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True North: Word of the Year
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Laquo; Gifts of the Darkness. Random Retreat ». February 08, 2014. Word of the Year. As in: undomesticated. Unafraid. In touch with the rhythms of the natural world. Unpredictable. Unruly. Passionate. Beyond normal or conventional bounds. Deviating from the expected course. And even as in playing cards: able to represent any card designated by the holder. Is NOT ditching the kids or running away to join the circus or being an unfaithful wife. Posted at 01:39 PM. Word of the Year. Word of the Year. On Saf...
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True North: Setting Up
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Laquo; Summer Studio. Stone Barns ». June 29, 2012. Ive been at the studio every day this week. Im addicted. I have been working a little - finishing a dress I started last year, drawing, writing, and making some headway on a sculpted paper piece. But Ive also been letting myself be aimless: I wander around picking things up and putting them down again, I look out the windows and watch the trains rush by on their tracks alongside the river, I stare into space just thinking. Artist, mama, and creativity g...
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True North: Not My Job
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Laquo; What Do We Call It? Parent, A Verb ». December 10, 2014. In 2012, you may remember. At the end of the summer, I returned my art supplies to our home, and Chris generously removed his desk from our office and gave that room exclusively to me. Because affording an outside studio space was not in the cards for us, not then and not anytime soon, and he had seen how important it was to me to have a space of my own. So hard. . Are the mother, you can handle it. Then this past summer, I sat in a restaura...
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True North: Lessons from the Studio
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Laquo; Parent, A Verb. Don't Educate Me ». July 19, 2015. Lessons from the Studio. 1 Show up. Walk through my door. Stay for 30 minutes or 3 hours or all day. It’s the arriving that matters. Just come. Read or snack or cry here if you cannot paint today. It all counts. 3 Know only what you. Excellent. Can’t wait to see what you do instead. Feel like you’re jumping off a cliff by embarking on making work with no rules at all? Excellent. Can’t wait to watch you figure out how to fly. 4 When you put somethi...
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True North: mother of daughters
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November 20, 2014. What Do We Call It? Vagina. To those who say but you must teach girls the correct word, I say that word isnt correct. on its own. If you say vagina then you must also say vulva and clitoris and urethra and really? Teach a child on the potty to wipe your urethra? There is a place for medical and specific; those are good words to have and yes, my girls do know them or are learning them. But clinical is not all I want for this relationship. And while were on that track, also. But Yoni doe...
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True North: On Safety and Wildness
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Laquo; Her Blessings. What Do We Call It? October 27, 2014. On Safety and Wildness. The wild always needs a guardian at the gate, or it will be misused. Clarissa Pinkola Estes,. Women Who Run With the Wolves. My dad was in the hospital. A no-big-deal knee replacement turned into a post-op infection. Plus 8 days in a row of hiccups. Yes, EIGHT days, 24 hours a day. He was hooked up to IV antibiotics, unable to sleep with the hiccups, devoid of privacy. Stuck. Vulnerable. But I am not over it at all. So I ...
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True North: What Do We Call It?
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Laquo; On Safety and Wildness. Not My Job ». November 20, 2014. What Do We Call It? Vagina. To those who say but you must teach girls the correct word, I say that word isnt correct. on its own. If you say vagina then you must also say vulva and clitoris and urethra and really? Teach a child on the potty to wipe your urethra? There is a place for medical and specific; those are good words to have and yes, my girls do know them or are learning them. But clinical is not all I want for this relationship.
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True North
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December 16, 2015. What I Wish I Were Doing Instead of Getting Ready for Christmas. Going to the movies. By myself. Listening to records in the dark, with a glass of red in my hand. Writing down wise quotes on little slips of paper and leaving them littered around the house. Roasting a chicken, and eating it off the good china by candlelight. Or at the coffee table with fingers. . Spending an afternoon at the library, a night at the brewery, and the next morning in bed. Blue is the Warmest Color. An hour...
