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End of the first full year in England: all my 2008 was here. I have a stack of orange train tickets; a black notebook; a foolscap box of movie stubs, mix cds, dried flowers, paper cranes. I've read things I never imagined I'd read (like this and this and this); seen the ocean from Scotland, Norfolk, Cornwall, and Liverpool; been back to Paris (with a red-headed English for company); written pages and pages for my dissertation (something else I didn't think would happen). I feel quite removed from the person who left Minneapolis for France three years ago, and at the same time still very much that person, as though I am living there simultaneously. When I go back and things are different, it's very strange.
My work is changing--how I work, what I make, how I think of it. I really appreciated that so many people made orders from the little shop. Sometimes when the writing is too hard, I draw up plans for the shop I want to have in real life and I miss the months when I was making things full-time. But I also love writing and thinking and going to school, so here I am. Doing the PhD has shown me that I do have a capacity for work that goes on for a long time, that I can sustain both interest and thought beyond a single page or period of a few hours--which feels very liberating, because it allows me so much space and time to make connections.
I want to be in this space a little more often in the new year--I'd like to post some recipes, more work, more pictures of life here. I have shows coming up--two opening in January, one later in the spring, and two in summer--and I'd like to put more of that work here, too. So I'm going to try a new format, which I'll post about on Monday, 5 January.
Happy New Year! I hope 2009 is full of peace, beauty, and happiness for everyone.
My work is changing--how I work, what I make, how I think of it. I really appreciated that so many people made orders from the little shop. Sometimes when the writing is too hard, I draw up plans for the shop I want to have in real life and I miss the months when I was making things full-time. But I also love writing and thinking and going to school, so here I am. Doing the PhD has shown me that I do have a capacity for work that goes on for a long time, that I can sustain both interest and thought beyond a single page or period of a few hours--which feels very liberating, because it allows me so much space and time to make connections.
I want to be in this space a little more often in the new year--I'd like to post some recipes, more work, more pictures of life here. I have shows coming up--two opening in January, one later in the spring, and two in summer--and I'd like to put more of that work here, too. So I'm going to try a new format, which I'll post about on Monday, 5 January.
Happy New Year! I hope 2009 is full of peace, beauty, and happiness for everyone.
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