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Hello it is Thursday Thursday. Everyday is Beach Monday now and Monday Monday hasn’t seemed to work for me lately. I am not sure what I mean by “seems to work for me”. I haven’t sat down to do it? The hardest part is sitting down to do it.
This winter I dedicated so many of my waking hours to working. This felt good, this gave me purpose, this gave me direction, this gave me a way forward and through the immense grief that tore through my heart.
Now I swim, I walk June, I moved farther North, farther away from people. My second time living on a foggy peninsula on the way to nowhere but the shore.
I don’t have a mailbox and Brian at the hardware store grabbed me the post and I got a shovel but I just did not trust myself to be able to do that task. So I will probably have to go back because now Krysta at the post office is annoyed at me when she has to dig for my packages but I promised her I would get the mailbox soon and in the meantime have my packages sent to my PO Box.
The season change has felt so abrupt. Heart season, brain season, living season, weather season, love season, sex season, celibacy season, solitude season, gemini season, mercury rx season, everything keeps changing.
All that you touch, you Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God Is Change - Octavia Butler
Leah came to visit. While she was here I kept thinking, some people go to a pride parade and some people ask beautiful queers to drive far out of the way to lay on quilts in the yard and in the sand and in the house.
Leah left some pieces of patchwork she started. I think I’ll see what it feels like to add on to them. To see how one thing shifts into a different thing. To see which parts stay the same, and which parts are forever transformed.
I feel so behind. I do not have any eloquent lesson. No beautiful prayer. No hope of being productive. I guess this is the rest of it all, the paying attention part. There is no deadline, no graduation, no diploma, no end goal. It is just a forever float, the constant mystery, perhaps that is enough for now.
Good news : Me and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo visioned WHOLE NEW GRAPHICS for your favorite gay substack MONDAY MONDAY by YOURS TRULY as well as YES YES and COMING SOON : Postcard sets for all founding members of this newsletter! (This gift is so late, my extended apologies)
More about Lukaza (one day belated birthday blessings)
Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo (They/them/Lukaza) is an artist, activist, educator, storyteller & curator who lives/works between Ohlone Land [Oakland, CA] and Powhatan Land [Richmond,VA]. They invite the viewer to recall and share their own lived narratives, offering power and weight to the creation of a larger dialogue around the telling of B.I.Q.T.P.O.C. stories. Their work has been included in exhibitions and performances at Konsthall C [Stockholm, Sweden], SEPTEMBER Gallery [Kinderhook, NY], EFA Project Space [New York City, NY], Leslie Lohman Museum [New York City, NY], Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [San Francisco, CA] and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [Berkeley, CA], amongst others. Lukaza has been awarded residencies and fellowships at Kala Art Center [Berkeley, CA], ACRE Residency [Steuben, WI], Vermont Studio Center [Johnson, VT], CENTER [Grand Rapids, MI] and Common Field.
Their artist books and prints have been published by Endless Editions, Childish Books, Press Press, Sming Sming and Night Diver Press and is in the permanent collections at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cynthia Sears Artist’s Book Collection, California College of the Arts Printmaking Archive, the UC Santa Cruz Library, NYU Libraries and San Francisco Museum of Art Library. Lukaza got their BFA at California College of the Arts and MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.
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