I know that I have neglected this blog lately. Usually it serves as a creative outlet, forcing me to stop and think and create every day, but with a couple of exceptions it has felt a little forced recently.

I’ve done a lot of thinking about why this might be, given that I have never felt more alive creatively. I started this experiment in DC when I was feeling quite blocked and I turned to this blog daily as a means — as really my only means — of self-expression. Since moving, I feel like a flood-gate has opened and I am creating all the time, but almost none of it is on the computer. I have so many photos waiting to be processed (my god, I have shown you nothing of my home! or of Oakland! or of San Francisco! so shameful), but night after night, my computer sits untouched, the photos unprocessed and unposted because I am busily sawing plywood or painting or pasting or nailing or cooking.

This feels like a time for getting messy, to be covered in glue, to drip tomato juice down my chin, to feel the comforting weight of my camera in one hand, to make new friends, to be outside, picking blackberries, or laying in the grass while Bodhi prowls and Steve plays his guitar. Try as I might, it does not feel like a time for staring at a computer screen.

I’m creating a new home for us here, a new space to melt into and so much of my energy has been channeled in that direction. But I also find that I am starting to miss this space, because it serves not just as an outlet, but also as a way to share with you the beauty of my day-to-day. So, I have new! grand! projects! planned like a mini-home-tour where I show you all the little DIY/design projects that I’ve been working on, and a tour of the fantastic old signage of downtown Oakland, and a missive on the joys of my CSA box and the politics of food.

In sum? Thanks for sticking with me and I promise to share more with you soon.

• August 26th, 2008
• at home, musings
• Leave me love
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