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Thanks to @nourish_____ for this week’s collaboration on our Inauguration Transformation workshop series. I left the zine making session I led with a reminder mantra for myself to “Be your best graceful trickster rogue” and Michaela’s collage session with
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Here's my map for 2025, My Ballast Year. ⚖️ I wanted a word that was more about balance and stability and equanimity as the enablers of my experiences. Ballast, as a noun, is "a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve s
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Kupka and Goncharova and Gleizes, oh my! The #orphism show at my old @guggenheim stomping grounds is a lovely swirling spiral of light, space, and color. Here are just a few highlights. 1: #NataliaGoncharova 2–5: #FrantisekKupka 6–7: #AlbertGleizes 8–9: #
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A bit of magical snowy driving ❄️️️
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It's been a total joy to collaborate with @nourish_____ on slowly, organically developing a collaboration that makes sense for us both and the moment we're in in the world. Registration opens today for Inauguration Transformation, a pair of hands-on virt
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Here’s my 2024 in books, both the sketches I do of each book cover and the @the.storygraph wrap up version. Highest recs for: The Mars House (@natasha_pulley always kills it), The Winter Soldier (my fave #DanielMason, even more than North Woods), Cahokia
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Midnight tarot pull for #NewYearsDay. “What did 2024 teach me?” ➡️ THE HERMIT who walks steadily and without hate between states and extremes, who knows the value of liminality and holding more than one thing as truth. “What does 2025 hold in s
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We’ve turned the corner! The dirtiest day has come and gone and the light will slowly be returning. But I can’t be mad at bundling up to wander through @mountauburncemetery’s Solstice light show with @elnevins. ️❄️
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Sure the sun goes down at 3:30pm. But Edinburgh and the Scottish countryside are nae less bonny for the broody, witchy atmosphere. Just right for cozy drinks in the pub and wandering cemeteries and visiting castles at night.
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Assorted London goings-on, featuring cozy lights at #NealsYard, quality time with #BenWhishaw at the @godotwestend stage door, some highly excellent medieval illuminations at @britishlibrary, @stjpiccadilly carol service led by @ayla.lepine, @poetry_pharm
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“They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything w
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Overheard at @gardnermuseum: “All she did was collect beautiful art and talk to influential people. Goals.” Viva #IsabellaStewartGardner: Queen of aesthetic juxtaposition. #ITweetMuseums
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Just a small selection of the delightfully eccentric, eclectic signage around #NewOrleans.
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I love you very much, #NewOrleans. Even when I am traipsing through your pouring rain with soggy feet. Please tell me who was playing at @bjslounge in slide 5!!!!
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I'm teaching a short course online about one of my favorite topics: pirates and what we can learn from them for doing good work and making good trouble today. Registration deadline: Oct 10 (use code earlyTIMBERS for 10% if you register by ⭐️TODAY:sta
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The @teresita.fernandez/#RobertSmithson show at @sitesantafe is phenomenal! So many well spent minutes examining Fernández’s use of material and texture (who knew graphite could take you so far!) and her exploration of the @holtsmithsonfoundation archives
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These aren’t pictures of The Lightning Field. Unless pictures of the view shed are pictures of The Lightning Field. Or pictures of the wildlife (and their scat) are pictures of The Lightning Field. What a site. What a sight. What a perfectly constructed
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First stop en route to @diaartfoundation’s #TheLightningField was Pie Town, NM and @pieoneer_homestead for a full pie composed of 6 different individual slices that got demolished by 4 of us in quick order. Pie is never a bad idea!
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See you next year, #MooseheadLake. And welcome to the 3 weeks of “it’s still technically summer but Fall Vibes ™ are here and unstoppable”.
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Now that the hiking trip day-by-day is over, I’m shifting into the opposite mode: sitting on my butt at #MooseheadLake and reading all the books. This is my annual retreat from the internet time, so I’m deleting my social apps and I’ll be back in early Se
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Last day of this @thecoloradotrail trip want a hiking day but was a delightful day in Leadville. Breakfast with @jennifer_foley_ and her heroic hubby Phil, who drove all the way up from New Mexico to pick her up. We watched the start of the @boomdaysleadv
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We did it! Day 8 was a 10 mile day walking the last of segment 8 of @thecoloradotrail. Waterfall, aspen glades, picturesque pasturelands, and the only time I was up front to catch a picture of @jennifer_foley_ coming toward me! The trail part of this day
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Day 7 was my favorite day of my entire time on @thecoloradotrail. We hiked up out of the valley where we’d camped, past the envy-inducing Janet’s Cabin (where we could have booked beds in a spot with a roof, a composting toilet, and a sauna), and up over
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Day 6 was the day @jennifer_foley_ let me sleep in. It was our “easy” day of only going 6 miles after our big day yesterday. Turns out, departing around @coppermtn ski resort (where they were making snow! on August 1!!!) involved a lot of direct sun and a
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Day 5 on @thecoloradotrail was our toughest push. From Breckenridge, all the way up to the 12,500ft peaks looking down on it. 13.4 miles (the longest stretch I did in a single day) with some killer steep switchbacks that got me singing an affirmation song
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Day 4 was our zero day in Breckenridge. Very much like Aspen in many ways. We did laundry(!), ate food that we didn’t have to rehydrate(!!), offloaded some stuff we didn’t need (yay for lightening our packs), and picked up a few supplies we did. When the
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Day 3 on @thecoloradotrail bright is to the end of segment 6. A tough climb for me in the morning, some gorgeous wildflower meadows in the midday, and a sunbaked and dusty final few miles that culminated in a trickle of a stream and full exposure at our i
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Day 2 on @thecoloradotrail included baby’s first mountain pass above treeline and making it to the #ContinentalDivide. For the rest of our hiking, we’d be following signs for both the CT and the CDT (@cdtcoalition). Also featured is me just after gleefull
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Back from the incredible challenge and incredible experience that was 8 days on @thecoloradotrail with @jennifer_foley_. These are pics from Day 1: wildflower meadows galore; an ominously named creek where despite some filter snafus the water was cold and
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Gear and food for hitting @thecoloradotrail for a week with @jennifer_foley_. I’m going to bed tonight excited and nervous and reminding myself that my anxiety is a sign I care and that it is a feeling state that is here and will not always be here. :reli
