the attic

You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive. A freelance life, a life in the arts, is sometimes like putting messages in bottles, on a desert island, and hoping that someone will find one of your bottles and open it and read it, and put something in a bottle that will wash its way back to you: appreciation, or a commission, or money, or love. And you have to accept that you may put out a hundred things for every bottle that winds up coming back.

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Okay, I think it’s safe to say that sailing joins Paris, NYC, and California on the “impossible to take a bad photo” list. Buuut, a lil wind might have made this shot a tad bit more exciting :)

5 days ago -

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Main sail logistics, my weekend treat. :)

6 days ago -

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“And [he] sailed back over a yearand in and out of weeksand through a day and into the night of his very own roomwhere he found his supper waiting for himand it was still hot”

-Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
Cheers to Maurice and childhood imaginations living on.

“And [he] sailed back over a year
and in and out of weeks
and through a day
and into the night of his very own room
where he found his supper waiting for him
and it was still hot”

-Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

Cheers to Maurice and childhood imaginations living on.

2 weeks ago -

“…when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson on Reddit (oh please, don’t look at me like you’ve never wandered the web on physics day and come across this.)

This + google doodles + space = heck yes.

3 weeks ago -

Anchors away to the start of sailing season! This weekend’s activity: wax on/wax off…some serious boat prep!

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