monthly musings

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Dec
a surreal watercolor painting depicting three colorful chimeras along the edge of a colorful wheel with an eye at the hub; a dandelion in different stages of growth at each corner, all agains

January 2026: turning the wheel

Behave like someone who loves you is watching. —Elena Solano Here in the Catskills, it’s snowing + cold…rainy + cold…
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30
Nov
an abstract tarot card with brightly colored spiky shapes forming a central column with a bright tomato red background against a dark wood surface

December 2025: tending our creative fire

There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. —Kelly Hayes
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28
Oct
6 of Cups tarot card showing 6 black silhouette vases in which flowers and children are peeking out, a sun with a face hovers above

november 2025: the power of poignancy

There’s a thing that worries me sometimes whenever you talk about creativity because it can have this kind of
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01
Sep
a weathered white barn in front of white fence surrounded by green trees with a sunlight-faced green mountain, blue sky and clouds in the background

September 2025: steady as she goes...

The answer to “how is this allowed?” is always “who is going to stop it?” —Sheryl Weikal Listen to this
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01
Aug
August 2025: planting seeds for the next world

August 2025: planting seeds for the next world

You are not a separate being. You belong to the living body of Earth. You are the Earth, looking up
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01
Jul
a glowing hermit inside a black mountain cave, a white angel pouring a figure-of of water into two cups and a figure with antlers looks up at a moon

July 2025: dreaming demands work

Dreaming demands work. —Zohran Mamdani Listen to this month’s offering as a podcast PSA: the latest COVID strain presents
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01
Jun
a linocut print with a white rose climbing a gridded trellis against a bright pink ground

June 2025: protecting what's precious

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. —Alice Walker Listen
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01
May
linocut print of 9 pink-orange stacked goblets against a white ground

May 2025: being self-responsive

I believe that public libraries offer an opportunity to fight FOR what we want to expand at a time when
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01
Apr
a collage artwork depicting a person gripping their head in distress, a flying bat and skeleton in the foreground

April 2025: alone with our mind

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness. —Alejandro Jodorowsky Listen to this month’s offering as a
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01
Mar
paper collage artwork with a text background, flowers and circles and a swimmer wearing a pink swimsuit in the foreground and the words 9 of Pentacles

March 2025: feeling secure

So much was closing in about the women who sat knitting, knitting, that they their very selves were closing in
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