tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43191393348196501462024-03-04T20:30:21.259-08:00figuring it out...(whatever, I know I'm never going to figure it out.)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger224125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-37112439809799108372013-12-31T10:29:00.002-08:002013-12-31T10:33:46.800-08:0027 things (365 days, holidays, a new year, etc) Oh by the way, I had the pleasure of writing up a little bit for the 27 Good Things blog, here's my contribution (three things to read, three things to watch, three things to use.) If you are ever, ever sitting around wondering what to do with yourself, GO PERUSE THAT BLOG. It's a wealth of really cool, entertaining, and useful ideas of just really great stuff (plus, some of my dear friendsgalen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-82725453133164692472013-11-06T09:55:00.002-08:002013-11-06T14:34:03.844-08:00Lily Myers "Shrinking Women" Poetry Slam"...I have been taught accommodation..."
"...I never meant to replicate her, but spend enough time sitting across from someone and you pick up their habits... a fugitive stealing calories to which she does not feel entitled..."
"...I asked 5 questions in genetics class today and all of them started with the word 'sorry'..."
"...a circular obsession I never wanted but inheritance is accidental.galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-31601146980138606852013-08-08T14:06:00.002-07:002013-08-08T14:06:59.956-07:00valuing time off Oh. My. July was a beast of a month. But it's August now and my kid is back in school and i'm scrambling to pick up the pieces of stuff strewn back through the summer that I had hoped to have wrapped up by now but aren't quite yet.
And so these three recent posts really got me thinking.
Being Okay With Where You Are. by Wendy N. Wagner:
"A few weeks ago, the very wonderful John galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-87308463216816986702013-06-14T09:50:00.000-07:002013-06-14T09:51:03.847-07:00talking to people of faith. A few things.
First, this article by professor Michael J. Stevens on his studies of elevated passive aggressive behavior in Mormons raised on the Wasatch Front:
"As I began to teach my usual rotation of courses using the BDQ, I
noticed a striking trend with my students along the Wasatch
Front—occurring with undergraduate and graduate (MBA) students, and with
males and females. The galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-27600350617626356832013-06-10T10:09:00.000-07:002013-06-10T10:09:57.678-07:00running April, the day after the Boston Marathon bombing, I used a ball point pen to cut deep gashes in my sketchbook. I was angry at everyone. Hurting for people I didn't know. Stressed, trying to keep on top of work, to take care of family, struggling quite a bit to train for a marathon I was signed up for. "Just tried to run, didn't make it 10 yards" was an entry on that cut up page. Another: "galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-76735869201086734212013-04-25T12:21:00.000-07:002013-04-25T12:21:44.410-07:00More awesome womenThis time about health and body image stuffs.
First, Kendal talks about gaining weight, losing weight, being healthy and getting strong and removing all the taboos that have been placed on food and loving herself no matter what size.
"This weight loss story is different. I don’t hate the pounds that I
shed. I don’t think I have “let myself go”. This isn’t a punishment.
&galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-18277007792948672892013-04-12T17:37:00.001-07:002013-04-12T17:37:54.097-07:00awesome women (just a random collection of awesomeness I've recently run across.)
Theodora Goss blogs about magical women:
"...They make the world more magical, show
me the parts of it that are magical, in case I’ve forgotten... To the arts in some form, specifically to the mythic in arts, and to
arts that change the world. I think it takes a great deal of courage to
be one of the people who tries to galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-54009933185705043892013-04-08T09:33:00.000-07:002013-04-08T09:34:43.973-07:00"The Thing About Things" (AFP) Amanda Palmer has a new song out. You can listen to it here, (lyrics here).
This part~>
"i can carry everything i need in one collapsing suitcase
i can carry everyone i love in one phone application
built to optimize the facetime with the ties i’m bent on making
actually i want to be alone
to mourn the loss
of what this cost
i collected you but now you are all lost" ~more
That part hitsgalen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-48727063681845110482013-04-06T21:30:00.000-07:002013-04-06T21:30:20.975-07:00women praying in Gen Conf.
So. this is kind of crazy. A woman praying in General Conference.
I mean, it's been due for a long time. Seriously, like forever. And was specifically the topic of a petition earlier this year (tho church leadership merely titters about prayer assignments were given way before that. Silly petition-signers.)
My sister-in-law texted me this morning, so excited when Elder Utchdorf announced galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-6195066965755498212013-03-12T10:15:00.000-07:002013-03-12T10:15:33.925-07:00asking for money Over at my art blog I just posted 4 items of interest to me regarding creative individuals asking for money.
Also, recently, I stumbled across this video that visually graphs wealth distribution in america:
I do not have a whole lot more to say about this right now, just stuff on my mind, currently. galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-48808128160656616752012-11-13T20:15:00.001-08:002012-11-13T20:15:30.276-08:00how to be alone. i like this. a lot.
galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-35580883124986477112012-11-08T12:22:00.000-08:002012-11-08T12:22:55.438-08:00a little compare and contrast (after the election)
Because I value debate "between good ideas from both sides about real problems in the real country" and find it reprehensible and ignorant to moan about Blacks, Hispanics and Women voting differently than you.
vs
Also... I am so in love with Rachel Maddow. galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-88138025950210825752012-06-02T09:40:00.000-07:002012-06-02T09:42:44.679-07:00Heavenly Mother's Day interview w/ Troy Williams
After guest editing a stellar issue of Sunstone Magazine, Holly Welker got in touch with Troy Williams of KRCL RadioActive to organize an interview with several of the contributors to the issue. I had the opportunity to be included: it was a wonderful experience to join Holly, Troy and Mary-Ellen Robertson for the first part of the show to talk about creating the cover for this issue. Also galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-57831452824427476832012-05-25T08:03:00.000-07:002012-05-25T15:19:42.954-07:00a laptop and a suitcase.So.
Tomorrow we pack up the last of our stuffs, put everything into storage and move into an available spare bedroom. (Thanking our lucky stars for supportive family members). A temporary situation while we wait for word about an offer on a home. At the moment, I'm zen. Multiple panic attacks over the past few months has apparently prepped me. (Or maybe this is just the calm before some F#CKINGSHgalen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-34309624182856314382012-05-16T11:57:00.001-07:002012-06-02T09:46:33.872-07:00Breathing.Sitting here at my desk at my dayjob, my last day here.
Also, texting about last supper plans tonight with some close friends: after 7 years sharing meals, vacations, and babysitting, they moving and we'll have to figure out how to live without them.
I'm just kind of breathing through this day. So, when Tracie posted this on twitter, I decided to put it on repeat:
(... because tomorrow I galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-88309055500142249142012-04-19T11:22:00.012-07:002012-05-25T08:29:02.850-07:00Day JobOver at the Inkpunks Wendy has distilled almost two weeks worth of us talking back and forth about day jobs and creative life into an excellent post, The Job Continuum.It's timely, because I just turned in notice at my day job.It’s something I have been thinking about doing for a while now as freelance work started trickling in more and more. But I always held off, valuing the tiny bit of galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-37606580940980482932012-04-04T10:17:00.026-07:002012-04-04T13:50:00.866-07:00badass women.(because I so love strong women of all types...)You probably can't get more different than Sunstone magazine and Lightspeed magazine, but between the two of them I've had the chance to illustrate some awesome female power lately.For the Sunstone magazine (my lingering connection with mormonism) I worked with Holly and Stephen to re-envision Heavenly Mother and the Creation of Eve and some galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-1162485966164189482012-03-30T09:17:00.024-07:002012-03-31T22:11:06.621-07:00Akata Witch (plus feminist Harry Potter too)Because I really just needed to curl up with a book again, I chose Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch. I picked it because I like witches, I love Jillian Tamaki's art for the cover, and I hadn't read anything by Nnedi before. A delightful coming of age story about Sunny, a young albino African girl, Nigerian by ancestry, American by birth. It touched my longing for magic. It made me want to somehow galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-17353245536788273562012-03-25T07:25:00.007-07:002012-03-25T07:36:15.557-07:00Emotoinally Stable...A friend sent me this.Originally written by Nick Knox, put to music by Max Lugavere.(Both those links contain the lyrics/words.)I put it on repeat and listened to over and over, all day."Don't be overwhelmed by the abundance: your life has only just begun, and you have all the time in the world."Thank you, Wendy.galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-79257581790087414152012-03-19T16:31:00.024-07:002012-03-30T13:30:43.288-07:00monsters"Beauty" by David Barr Kirtley, is now up over at Lightspeed. Here's a taste:“..."No!” he raged, pacing back and forth in front of the mirror. “No! This can’t be happening.”Nicole watched from the bed. She said softly, “How?”“I don’t know. The spell was gone, broken, it—” He turned on her suddenly. “You! You did this to me.”“What? But I . . .”He sat down beside her and took her by the hand. “Do galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-26514297817191590132012-03-09T15:40:00.027-08:002012-03-13T10:57:22.283-07:00losing my horcrux"A Horcrux is a powerful object in which a Dark wizard or witch has hidden a fragment of his or her soul for the purpose of attaining immortality." ~wiki It has been over three weeks since I last saw my book. I have no idea where it is. I'm still holding out hope, (small small hope).... but reality is setting in.I feel like I made a horcrux. And then lost it.I strung out my heart, multiple times galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-62608317092872090282012-03-01T21:32:00.004-08:002012-03-13T08:31:37.571-07:00(more birds)It's not too late. Maybe this will be the year I get my bird tattoo.(A friend linked to this Neko Case song on twitter, swooning now.)Oh my sparrow, it's too late Your body limp beneath my feet Your dusty eyes cold as clay You didn't hear my warning Didn't hear my warning~neko case, Maybe Sparrow.Save the sparrows.galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-60462466688481774472012-02-26T13:37:00.028-08:002012-03-13T13:17:36.357-07:00I like rocksSome years ago I intended to start a photographic project where I documented all the cairns I found while exploring the hills and mountains. My thought was to do some misty-eyed naval-gazing on the topic of pathfinding, trailblazing, and spiritual forerunners.It was about this same time I was obsessed with Byrd Baylor's Everyone Needs a Rock and started writing a short story about a young girl galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-63114842789408847372012-02-10T18:01:00.034-08:002012-02-26T19:34:50.737-08:00baconThis post is an assemblage of some recent conversations and links that all stuck together in my mind as relevant. The sticking point being food. (Food and food culture, btw, are often on my mind.)First, Wendy wrote this delightful post about being vegetarian in a family where vegetarians are suspect. (Which, is exactly what being a vegetarian in MY family is like. I've endured quite a bit of galen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-52488682890112860492012-01-03T08:05:00.000-08:002012-01-03T09:33:33.550-08:00free the birds. (100 other lovers, Shake it out.)"...I am in love with an ideaSophisticated Neurological appealsI want to negotiate some kind of a dealI want to tear it open show you that it's real..."~Devotchka. 100 other lovers."...I am done with my graceless heartSo tonight I'm gonna cut it out and then restartCause I like to keep my issues strongIt's always darkest before the dawn..."~Florence and the Machine, Shake it Out*****Anyways, lastgalen dara http://www.blogger.com/profile/02987352194018060353noreply@blogger.com1