I co-curate the New Town Revue, an Athens, GA music and literature series, which is hosted at Athens’ Avid Bookshop. This last performance, Friday, October 11, featured Jon Davies, Killick Hinds, and Laura Solomon. It was sublime.
I volunteered at the Great ARTdoors, a fundraiser for the Hambidge Foundation. They have hosted me for three different residencies; it’s one of my favorite spaces on earth. I led a tour of Didi Dunphy‘s studio. There were so many exciting things to discuss- she made a swing that was set up in the garden. This video was linked to an embroidered QR scan. This punch list was drawn on her studio wall, things she did every single day at Hambidge. I love the way she reminds us all to integrate play.
I began my third workshop with Sabrina Orah Mark. For our first assignment, she asked us to select a piece of work we wished we had written. I chose Steve Almond’s essay about Kurt Vonnegut, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt. You can read the first part here.
Brantley Senn has been rebuilding my website. Heads up- this blog will soon migrate to wordpress. The whole site will be much more user-friendly. Soon we will debut the design.
And all of this means so much more to me because this weekend marked the 24th anniversary of my entry into the teen treatment industry. My gateway to Escuela Caribe began at a place in Olive Branch, MS, then known as Parkwood Behavioral Health Services. I wish I could go back then and show myself how much I adore life now.