my neighborhood

Things to do.

I am thinking of doing a small book for a friend recovering from multiple surgeries and needing months of rehab. I am inspired by Teesha Moore, Linda Barry, and Maira Kalman, especially.

I would like it to be humorous and whimsical and something he could look at over and over.



What's not to love in something so clever as these:

Follow through

All dreams, ideas, and plans are worthless without follow-through.


One of the hardest lessons for me. I love to plan, organize, arrange, sort, outline, identify, route, stack, structure, systematize, develop, propose, configure, formulate, design, configure, layout, think, orchestrate something.


BUT, boy do I hate the tedium of seeing it through.

Looking for something?

Too much looking for something, an "answer", a "vision", "something other". This breeds illusion that there is something else.

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

~~Thomas Merton (The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton)

Cute as can be

Went walking in a shop in town today with my buddy and lo and behold these.


*she bought one*