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2019-07-26 NYC Day 1 – Hitting the City Streets
Yesterday was a great day. We took to the streets and definitely crossed “some things to do and see” off of our list. As is pretty typical for any summer day, the kids did their sleeping in thing which gave Jim and I plenty of time to figure out where we are on the map…
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2019-07-24 NYC Day 0 – The Arrival
Flying in at night was cool. City lights stretched out as far as the eye could see. I guess that’s what 8.6 million people looks like from the sky. Pretty freaking incredible. *** It’sofficially flipped over past midnight here but the travel all happened on the 24th so I’m sticking with that. We landed at…
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2019-07-24 Wild Wild West…
Or Wednesday or whatever. I have so freaking much I want to write about. I feel like I stepped out of the car when I arrived home on Sunday and right onto a carnival carousel that doesn’t have a stop button. Round and round I go. I still have thoughts from residency I’d like to…
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2019-07-21 MFA Res Days 8 and 9 – Tough Choices
The last two days I’ve felt less anxiety and less pressure, mostly, yet still inspired by so many shiny objects. On the downhill slide, the back of the back 9, the preparing for a return to reality from the dream, I find that the most difficult task is the necessity to chose between things, people,…
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2019-07-18 MFA Res Day 4 (And 5 And 6)- Going Beyond the Pale…
And trying to get back. I’ve pushed past cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs and have moved into territory that is a little unfamiliar. Is this what this is supposed to be like? This has happened a little in the past two residencies but not like this one. I’m in such a strange headspace, bodyspace, universe space…
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2019-07-13 MFA Res Day 0 – Stepping into the Familiar
Yesterday was a scramble to wrap up preparations and mid-afternoon I made the quick trip from my home-sweet-home to Nebraska City. Unlike a lot of the people in the program I live relatively close and don’t have far to go. Most traveling by car had a rough go because of all the flooding in the…
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2019-06-25 The Colorado Wrap Up
As I eluded to in my last post, it’s now three days after the day I was writing about and I’ve been home for several days. Life just moves too fast sometimes. On Sunday we woke to more snow falling and though it was beautiful, I was kinda over it and ready to get back…
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2019-06-22 Colorado Day 4 – Snow on the First Day of Summer 😱
Snow, for real!! Last night my friends and I stayed up late playing a card game and talking. It was a fairly rainy/stormy day, off and on, and as we sat by the picture window we could see the sky light up periodically with lightning. As we crossed over from the First Day of Summer…
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