Pattern

Made this to print on the backsides of some loose book pages. The book illustrates two weird baby dreams.

Small Carrots

These came from the garden behind the Birdhouse.

Why Community?

What's so great about community?

I'm trying to answer this question for myself. Is it really that great? No, not inherently. This is, I think, why you've got to work actively to cultivate the kind of community you want to see (or need). That row won't hoe itself.

I think we've got biological hard-wiring pushing us to band together, but I'm not sure I want to get into that with my work.

Thesis haiku: 1

TRACFONE voicejail night
The machine quickly deters
a small branch of it.

In America

In America, we have so much food that we fight with it.

I believe that waste is a sin. This poster really set my hair to curl. The fact that the event benefits food banks does little to assuage me.

Patience

One of the things I like best about gardening is that it demands patience. While there are ways to speed along germination, fruiting, and rotting, plants have their own time and it does not sync with your Palm Pre/iPhone/whatever. It's biological and ancient. They will not be hurried or cajoled.

For example, this fig tree cutting. I'm told it will root...in about a year. First it will shed its leaves and seem dead, and we will wait. Then some time in the future-- the post grad-school future where I am starting out my highly successful career as guest lecturer and artist shaman-- the fig tree will put out roots. And I will sing and dance.

If it doesn't root-- if what seems like dead, is dead-- that will be the future just as well.

Thesis

"The world is large and full of noise."
-Jane Hirschfield

I meet with my thesis committee for the first time tomorrow.