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| porcelain bowl |
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Those of us in the academic world live in a different annual cycle. Fall is the beginning of the new year, not the old one winding down. As beautiful as this season is, the natural world is letting go for the winter rest, while students are at the beginning of, and maybe innocently ignorant of, the profound affects a new year of study will have on them.
It is exciting for artists as well. Though most of us don't leave the studio entirely in the summer, the time to work on the house, the yard, leisure time for biking in the country or being on the water, gives us some distance. The fall season refreshes the senses and clears the rows for pushing ideas and planning the year.
Good to be back.
In remembrance: My family has close friends whose loved ones perished on this day, nine years ago. There are no words, there are no ideologies that can justify, indict or alter the acts nor salve the pain left in the dusty wake of the heinous, criminal deeds that day. We must all
be one....
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