Years ago, my sister wrote to me that sorrow and love are like fraternal twins, turning simultaneous cartwheels on the beach, and grinning at each other when one loses a shoe or ends up with her shirt over her head. I am trying not to panic as I meet both the sorrow and love in myself. Instead, I want to sit and have coffee with her. I want to see my cartwheeling twin self, stretched out on the beach, sand in her mouth, an apparition of possibility. Maybe, you can see yours too.
10 March 2011
Time to Quit Sleep
Light is happening as spring is pushing its way in. The days are getting longer and I want to quit sleep altogether.
In the last few weeks I have been revising a handful of the pieces I wrote through the winter to print and bind in a small collection. A physical book. I am headed to Portland in a few short days to letterpress print book covers at a printshop collective called Em-Space for BookArts. I will post photos of the making as well as how you can purchase a copy --- of which there will only be 150.
Not that this is the kind of blog where I write about my life as a journal necessarily, but thank you for excusing my almost month-long absence -- and for reading in the first place. Readers responses are one of the main reasons I chose to create this book project - so above all, thank you for reading over these last few months.
I am discovering that winter is the easiest season for me to write --- hunkered down with so many hours of dark. Now there are six baby cows galloping like long-legged puppies on our hillside -- how is anyone suppose to get any work done?
Somehow, there is still a lot of work getting done, just of a different variety. I am drawing and printing and carving like mad. I am beginning to churn out finished work. I would like to call you all on the phone and celebrate the way this feels. I am amazed at these moments when I find myself in a place in life I want to stay for awhile -- even if they are just moments. The moment is the thing -- maybe the only thing we'll ever get of happiness -- but we can get it over and over again.
It is 7:30 in the morning and the sun is already high in the sky. There is much to do; and sleep, our daily experience of dying, will find us too soon.
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