We were the strong ones, or the brave. Or maybe we just needed connection so much that we came despite the heat and the to-do lists and the brush fire over there. Whether we could pinpoint our motivations or not, we showed up on that sweltering mid-August evening after work to meet with strangers at…
Read more100 love lights at Camp Dart-Lo
On Tuesday, August 10, I was invited to spend the day at Camp Dart-Lo, the Campfire Day Camp on the banks of the Little Spokane River in North Spokane. Under a witness cottonwood that shades the camp’s fishin’ hole, I met with nearly 100 children, ages 3 to 14, to talk about this past year…
Read moreGrounding Art Hike for Families with Friends of the Bluff
It’s challenging enough sometimes as adults to navigate all that we are experiencing in this world right now, just think about how hard it might be as a kid. We are emerging from a long year of change and isolation and, in lots of cases, heartbreak, and it’s been hard for all of us. For…
Read moreReconnecting Outside: Private Art in Nature Hike with the EWU Degree Completion Team at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge
Yesterday, I joined the EWU Degree Completion team at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge for a private engagement Art in Nature Hike. The team’s director asked me to create an experience for her colleagues to facilitate an experience of decompression after a challenging year of all-remote work and to bring them all together again in person…
Read moreEmerging From the Goo: New Website and Office, Limited Summer Appointments, and New Connect and Create Workshops
Have you ever given much thought to metamorphosis? As of late, I have. Did you know that when caterpillars tuck into their cocoon sleeping bags for their snooze of transformation, the long fuzzy-bodied beings that they have always been melt away (if you allow me to be liberal here) into a living teaspoonful of goo, akin…
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