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Written In Pencil

I am determined not to lose the sense of expanded time and space and light we had wandering in Italy.

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Written In Pencil

Written In Pencil

But still, don’t lose today. Today is always the only one we’re in.

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Written in Pencil

Written in Pencil

Siena, Lucca, Elba, Venice and Rome. We’re taking the trip I’ve been dreaming of since art school, forty years ago.

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Written In Pencil

Written In Pencil

Day after hot dry day under the enormous blue skies of northern New Mexico we dug into the past.

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Written in Pencil 6 18

Totally delicious retirement time. Time of my own. Then the phone rings.

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Written In Pencil: 4 16

An artesian well with a long handled pump for water, a rain barrel for outdoor showers. No electricity. We lived with the hours of sun

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Written in Pencil 3 19

Clothes: all worn for important occasions but now unworn for decades and totally unlikely to ever be worn again. And then there’s the closet that holds everyday clothes – no, not today’s everyday clothes.

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Written in Pencil 2 19

Tom Myers talks about body consciousness. I start thinking about expanding that body consciousness into the environment. Could ultra green be ultra yoga?

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Written in Pencil 1 15

We are moving toward the front edge of spring and I am thinking about the fluidity of light and time.

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Written in Pencil 12 18

I have spent my life being really that careful. Don’t spend it today. Don’t wear it today, don’t finish it today, you might need it more tomorrow.

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Written in Pencil 11 24

1958: twenty years old and teaching at PS 39 South Bronx. The only thing I was really sure of was I wanted self-sustaining work and a place of my own.

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Written in Pencil 10 23

I can do it any time. Why do it now? I realized I’ve let too many things become the choices I did not make, and one day there will be no “later.”

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