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The quiet is on purpose. I’ve been gathering and holding close the moments as they come. Time for stillness. Evenings with books. The occasional afternoon when I can slip away at work and walk with my turquoise Hunter boots fingerless gloves down to the peer, over snowy grass or mud or pebbles, to watch the water move and feel the sky grow bigger there, unobstructed by things made by the human hand.
 
The quiet is my way of starting out the year: between the new year and my birthday, 26 days exactly to dwell and ruminate; to take inventory of where I’ve been and where I’m headed. What I’ve done, and what I long to do.
 
And maybe this year, more than any other year, I’ve needed the quiet. Craved it, like a hunger, all the way down to my bones after nearly four years of non-stop creating. First Sprout, then Kickstarter, then grad school, then writing A Field Guide To Now, then a new job, then the book launch, and now, finally here. A new year. I’ll be 35 at the end of this week.
 
That feels significant. A year for becoming… in new ways. Hence the reason I’ve changed things up around here design wise. I’ve been wanting things to be simple. To be just enough, nothing more. Room for art and words photographs and enough white space also for some breathing room. I hope you like it.
 
I’m also planning some truly lovely, simple things for this space. A little daily collaboration with one of my dearest friends. The most wonderful interview series I could ever imagine, slowly coming together with some of the most incredible creatives I know.
 
And quite soon, quite soon indeed, I’ll be having a pay-what-you-can studio sale, to make way in my small corner of the world for new work. If you’d like to be among the very first to know–and get a special sneak peak before it goes live for everyone else, sign up for my newsletter here. I’ll be sending an update out before the end of the week, and you don’t want to miss it. Really.