⅘I Design to Live     Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp     2021  MIT Press    Edited by Azra Aksamija,  Raafat Majzoub,  and Melina Philippou Preface "The existential threats of climate change, the COVID-19  pandemic, and the rising numbers of forcibly displaced people make visible a new reality of social, political, and economic…

more today.   wanting to let the drawing  draw its Self….     What does the drawing want?    What will i come to know?   As i drew today,   just  marks,   i began getting sensory memory….the plants down that long hill to the creek,  at the creek,   all the wild ones,  the weed plants,  i closed my…

i'd been so taken in by this drawing,  by all it had brought.    And then my brother's visit    Though it has been right here to the left of me,   it had become  like a dream.    Beginning  the Willow Tree….remembering it,  what it WAS to me,  to my life then    was good…

rumpled.   i debated about putting this here.   He is a private person.  He would not like being "talked about",  but i think it has value….maybe in many different ways we All might do things in our lives that are some out of the ordinary. He attended preschool and first grade in a Montesorri school,  they…

Red Kuri.  One grew.  and baked today alongside the only Zucchini Pizza of 2023.   it was rainy and a high of 61 degrees.  Oven.  The zucchini was from Mellissa,   Alyssia's friend,   cleaning out her refrigerator before leaving with her mother to go live in a womens collective in Mexico.    The Red Kuri,  small,  but…

 t not a good pic.   but there,   Julian at the end.   his 14th birthday down at A.    Jenny is gettig her fingernails painted by Brinley and Emrie.    Julian is experiencing his family.   As Is.    At first he said he didn't  want any decorations but then said maybe a little.   Alyssia got 2…

  i can't ssee…   I almost didn't post.   Been a BIG day mind wise.   Lots of  thoughts,   Lots.   But just here.    this little summer shirt,   took off the clothesline   and forgot…..the Kantha   on the back where there was a rip from a fence snag and i took it off and …..SAW the kantha and…

my brother and his youngest son,  Elija   16.  From Minnesota.  They flew  to Reno, Nevada, rented a Tesla and drove…arriving at an air bnb last night.   Arrived here this morning.   Stayed till around 2 then set out for the Pacific Ocean, the city of Eureka where they will stay in an air BnB on a…

  i love it when i see that i've dated things.   This was 11/8/2015      This is the first time i feel like i need them.