A Shot of Joy

I feel so much tenderness toward these photos.

Three Ephemeral Website Things

A few rhyming pieces from this week: 1. Sarah wrote a lovely, somewhat bittersweet post about finally closing her Photobucket account, which touched on a lot of what I find difficult about maintaining an archive of one’s creative work online as an artist, rather than just a writer: I’ve never been sentimental about my childhood … Continue reading Three Ephemeral Website Things

Internet Kismet

“I haven’t lived with that long enough to paint it.”

Ramble #30

This Ramble is about stuff I lost track of in 2021, things I’m thinking about in the new year, trying to abandon perfectionism, what to share and what not to share, the topography of the Ojai Valley, and various other things.

“It’s a gift.”

There’s a certain amount of distance I need in order to extend compassion to myself.

Homesick for Many Places

Is it possible to have roots in multiple places?

A View…

…of somewhere I’ve been coming for a long, long time.

Brushpile

It turns out you can counteract a lot of “I Work on a Computer All Day” angst with nothing more than a pair of branch loppers and an hour on an overgrown hillside trail.

First Plunge

I’m pulling into Santa Barbara, 940 miles of highway behind me, as the sun dips low to the west. On my right: occasional glimpses of the sea, tantalizing and unreal, but ahead there’s only bumper-to-bumper traffic.  I’m racing the clock as I inch through Montecito, drumming my fingers on the steering wheel. The sun’s fully … Continue reading First Plunge