There is little about my present day to day that resembles me in past decades. Transitioning into something quite different than holding my babies tight, those busy years where the washable wall calendar held a live or die schedule of schooling, sporting and musical events, each directing every moment. A life that revolved around the immediate. A life that didn’t lose sleep over what billionaire screwed up yet something else. I mean, I knew that they were, because, well, don’t they always? but I was too busy with the stuff you just had to do before you could lay your head down. Nowadays though it does seem prudent to pay attention to the white house criminals who flout court orders, disregard constitutional law and are running about like mad dogs biting our collective jugular. I miss those years when a chubby baby demanded I stay in the wonderful present and I didn’t ferment over the rich and coiffed ladies who lifted off the planet for 11 minutes of fame. Why do they command our attention while the planet burns?
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A Holiday Letter of Cheer
Oh my, what a year! Right?! From insurrection to vaccination, Americans have experienced every emotion between hell and heaven in 2021, and will mostly be glad to see the back of it. Crawling out of the political fray, the misinformation war, and the day to day grind, still we are grateful for much that came our way this year. Here, in this transient moment, tiny sparks seem worth celebrating in our home and blowing up straight into yours. After all, this is the season of light and hope; so with the best of intentions, I want to offer one cheer for our one small world, spinning in the darkness, peopled with you and me and the rest of our loves, expressed with paint on wood to say through love that yes, yes indeed, we will do more than survive, indeed, we can live on to celebrate the great gifts of the past 12 months. Art allows for all that complexity.

