tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57339039354373250772024-02-21T07:24:17.416-08:00HERE ALONG THE WAY..Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-21729231083316321672012-06-19T18:49:00.000-07:002012-06-19T18:49:09.693-07:00<br />
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Inside us there is a listener who listens for what we say, a watcher who watches what we do. Each step we take in conversation with our friends, moving slowly, or flying among words, he watches, calling us into what is possible, into what is not said, into the shuckheap of ruined arrowheads, or the old man with missing fingers.<br />
We wake, stretch, stand up, speak our first sentence, and fall as we talk into a hole in the sounds we make. Overly sane afternoons in a room during our twenties come back to us as a son who is mad. Every longing another had that we failed to see returns as a squinting of the eyes when we talk, and no sentimentality, only the ruthless body performing its magic, transforming each of our confrontations into energy, changing our scholarly labors late at night over white-haired books into certainty and healing power, and our cruelties into an old man with missing fingers.<br />
At breakfast we speak of people long known who've left the Path, and two hours later in broad daylight the car slides off the road. I give advice in public one day as if I were adult, and that night a policeman in my dreams holds a gun to the head of a blindfolded girl. We talk of eternity and growth, and I pour more wine into my glass than into yours.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">* I wrote down this short piece from a book without noting the author. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Why is Robert Bly the first person to come to mind? Maybe... not? </span><br /><br /><br />
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And, if you've a mind to, check out this <a href="http://pictureandpoem.tumblr.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Picture & Poem</span></a> project.</div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-26706390730279026322012-01-26T22:59:00.000-08:002012-01-26T22:59:55.038-08:00This week started with an afternoon of kitchen play and a perfectly small Sunday Supper extravaganza. Every week should begin with a fried apple pie, or three.<br />
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It's not over, but the week is wrapping up nicely. Today I received official news that my poet friend, Tom McCauley, and I received a fellowship from <a href="http://www.u-ca.org/">The Union for Contemporary Art</a> here in Omaha, NE. This fellowship provides us with a free studio space and a stipend for 6 months, beginning in February. We've been toying with a collaborative book project for awhile and now we've been given some incredible resources to help see it through! Along with our own personal works, we'll also be initiating a community-based project with a group of kids in North Omaha, but more to come on that. There are a lot of logistics to work out with this venture but we're both really excited and thankful to have this opportunity to learn, explore, create, and give back!<br />
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<br />Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-8303435468279896152012-01-02T13:26:00.000-08:002012-01-02T13:26:16.183-08:00CheerFor several months now Sunday evenings have been reserved for "Sunday Supper," a small event that brings food and friends together. <div>
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So glad that the very first day of this brand new year just so happened to fall on our gathering day...</div>
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<br /> There were new faces, old faces, and the usual star of the show.<br />
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<br /></div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-81147392369428810502011-10-19T17:53:00.000-07:002011-10-19T17:53:59.133-07:00here, there, and back again<div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">draw, read, & relax... oh, and treats<br />a fantastic restaurant, should you ever be in the neighborhood: <a href="http://www.knifeandforknc.com/">Knife & Fork; Spruce Pine, NC</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thank you Miss Michelle, we had a real nice time! <br />Love, Toby & Maranda</td></tr>
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<br /></div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-3674219866982373342011-09-27T23:52:00.000-07:002011-09-27T23:52:53.898-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">we're excellent communicators, obviously</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Suppertime with friends in Nebraska goes something like this:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> delicious food and pie, of course</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and a grand finale, bringing the evening to a close</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and have vowed to use up all my lingering supplies before collecting more<br />my paper stash is ludicrous<br /></td></tr>
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Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-69817456353495440322011-09-20T20:27:00.000-07:002011-09-20T20:27:31.178-07:00I'm lucky to know some pretty fantastic people that like to share delicious food, special drink, conversation, and potluck fun. This is a teensytiny sampling of the spread we had this past Sunday, um, half-eaten.<div><br />
</div><div>Sundays. My favorite day. As my grandmother would say, "Why, I never..."</div><div>I suppose I was brought up under the impression that half statements were actually full statements.</div><div><br />
</div><div>I'm not sure this has served me well.</div><div>This may explain some things.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">beets? gone. apple/rasp pie? gone. sweet potato w/ nutty crust? gone. bean salad? one more serving.<br />
lentils? gawd, there's still a pot full..<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></div><div>It's been a fine week so far, and coming home to mail, real mail, helps:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We talk to each other, and ourselves, in our letters</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">sometimes we don't have to say much</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> and other times we make tiny books with doodles and after thoughts <br />
because we're paper people, which means piles of paper scraps <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">always, we write like we talk... for better or worse.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and we always end on a high note<br />
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</div><div>And, finally, this is pretty fantastic:</div></div><div><br />
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</div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-1082807135785453942011-09-14T23:23:00.000-07:002011-09-14T23:23:33.610-07:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">fresh fruit for tarts and pies</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">vegan/gluten free crust. beginners luck. a tasteful success, which i can't seem to stop celebrating.<br />
unfortunately, i'm not exactly sure what those side notes actually mean, "if making pie," um.... ??</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">yellow flag shapes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a stranger loving life</td></tr>
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</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, finally, I was fortunate to see 6 fantastic musicians perform tonight at the Side Door Lounge, here in Omaha. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please check out these artists, hear their work, and support them when you have the opportunity!</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><a href="http://soundcloud.com/rtomlinsondick"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Rachel Tomlinson Dick</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><a href="http://f.cl.ly/items/1F1Q330w2N1u0P1d1x2d/Don't%20You%20Say%20Those%20Things%20To%20Me.mp3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Jayme Fowler & Nate Dittman</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><a href="http://www.shenandoahdavis.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Shenandoah Davis</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div></div></div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-39013603828151276892011-09-12T22:12:00.000-07:002011-09-13T05:25:20.527-07:00<div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">There has been art stuff</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>love </i><a href="http://www.gomezartsupply.com/"><i>Gomez Art Supply</i></a><i>, printing ink, bathtub soaking, and paper on the wall</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">There has been "i can't believe this..." stuff, fences to jump, and random color</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0kiNIq-XZgYZ6m9KZc9DT2BdZ1HGElR7FdmFHpI2mde59V7TAFTe8HfRn0PbjP7seEc6lnsN1uxGD6xgkcwFg-rjWc2ixCy0CEh1Oy63gWqWqHys7y5tQa9ETOpxu04XznEB-_q5WE5NC/s1600/can%2527t+believe+this+stuff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="103" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0kiNIq-XZgYZ6m9KZc9DT2BdZ1HGElR7FdmFHpI2mde59V7TAFTe8HfRn0PbjP7seEc6lnsN1uxGD6xgkcwFg-rjWc2ixCy0CEh1Oy63gWqWqHys7y5tQa9ETOpxu04XznEB-_q5WE5NC/s400/can%2527t+believe+this+stuff.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">and lots of lovely, outside, summer things.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiijsbVxFJ1lITVWMBd-Op3YDkpi6chrZ7e6dQEEE0bFGQIEJ06-tUpQiMbYfPijbpf9oHWlNN9F7und4Pw77jIMtCggJHDHKB1gTe5jKE8oT2BC_zmz9kmY-32JdNzGT30iWocrMK6ycm7/s1600/things.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiijsbVxFJ1lITVWMBd-Op3YDkpi6chrZ7e6dQEEE0bFGQIEJ06-tUpQiMbYfPijbpf9oHWlNN9F7und4Pw77jIMtCggJHDHKB1gTe5jKE8oT2BC_zmz9kmY-32JdNzGT30iWocrMK6ycm7/s320/things.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Always better.</span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>i did this, there, and thought of you.. happy birthday yesterday, </i><a href="http://millionsofpeoplehappy.blogspot.com/"><i>michelle</i></a><i>!</i></td></tr>
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</div></div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-10060008721096493612011-08-16T08:23:00.000-07:002011-09-13T05:27:35.449-07:00There's a backlog of words to share, but plenty of time for that.. <br />
I'm coming around.<br />
<br />
This project, however, has a deadline, so I'd like to share it with you now!<br />
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<div><a href="http://www.joslyn.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Joslyn Art Museum</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"> </span>has taken on a "Yarn Bomb" project and we'd love to have you participate. Find out more about the project, deadlines, and where to send your pieces here: <a href="http://www.joslyn.org/post/sections/157/Files/Project_Yarn_Flier.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">http://www.joslyn.org/post/sections/157/Files/Project_Yarn_Flier.pdf</span></a></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The morning greeted me with a mailbox full of this</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div>Find out more about this movement and entertain yourself with some amazing pictures at the link below: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"><a href="http://knittaporfavor.wordpress.com/">http://www.knittaplease.com/</a></span></div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-49092024740262240992011-07-05T13:07:00.001-07:002011-07-05T13:07:29.431-07:00on pause<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(poem for July)</span><br />
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<i>The Story</i><br />
-by Mark Strand<br />
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It is the old story: complaints about the moon<br />
sinking into the sea, about stars in the first light fading,<br />
about the lawn wet with dew, the lawn silver, the lawn cold.<br />
<br />
It goes on and on: a man stares at his shadow<br />
and says it's the ash of himself falling away, says his days<br />
are the real black holes in space. But none of it's true.<br />
<br />
You know the one I mean: it's the one about the minutes dying,<br />
and the hours, and the years; it's the story I tell<br />
about myself, about you, about everyone.Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-28633614117873412832011-04-17T22:47:00.000-07:002011-04-17T22:47:48.011-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">some things will always be better: mixed tapes and usps letter mail</td></tr>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">This past week I came home to a treasure chest mailed to me by my friend,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><a href="http://rbtsps.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Rbt. Sps.</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Rbt. makes a weekly sitcom, and I have been fortunate to receive a Season 1, boxed set of dvds. I'm <i>so</i> excited to share these and have been plotting and planning with my friend Natalie, for the better part of the day, on how to make this happen. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Summer fun.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">rbt. thank you a million times over</td></tr>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And, of course, it's better to make plans while you <u><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1660274380"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">make </span></span></a></u><a href="http://foodgawker.com/?s=vegan&cat=0#"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">food</span></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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And this weekend, there were lots of plans<br />
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But sometimes it can be overwhelming<br />
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So it's good to take time for long walks<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">and note all the things that make everyday life so great.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's a good week.</div><br />
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</div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-41922544711110736642011-04-03T19:51:00.000-07:002011-04-03T20:20:25.125-07:00There have been some good things:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">keep your hands busy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">because who gets that lucky.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">in the hole $1.75. "You have to play big to win big." -<a href="http://www.lambrechtglass.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Jenna</span></a></td></tr>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And there have been some ridiculous things, like all day baking:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">What? Why.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">_____</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So today, I was leaving my house with a bag full of cinnamon rolls just as a neighbor-stranger was heading down the sidewalk. I thought about offering some to him, but didn't because no one takes baked goods from a stranger on the street. That's weird.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I walked on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then changed my mind. <i>Typical.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So I turned around and offered some sweet treats.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The neighbor-stranger actually took them. I wonder if he ate them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Maybe that's why I spent the majority of the day baking all these unnecessary foods, to remind me, so I could remind you, that sometimes impulse is good.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></div></div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-69380859860181791532011-03-30T21:09:00.000-07:002011-03-31T04:46:40.622-07:00word. music. art.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Poet Laureate, <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/w-s-merwin"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">W. S. Merwin</span></a>, <i>might</i> be speaking at <a href="http://www.joslyn.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Joslyn Art Museum</span></a> at the end of April. Plans aren't finalized yet. I hope this happens.</span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In light of this recent news, I decided that the poem to memorize for April should, of course, be a piece by Mr. Merwin. So here it is:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Air"</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">by W. S. Merwin</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Naturally it is night.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Under the overturned lute with its</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One string I am going my way</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Which has a strange sound.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This way the dust, that way the dust.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I listen to both sides</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But I keep right on.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I remember the leaves sitting in judgement</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And then winter.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I remember the rain with its bundle of roads.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The rain taking all its roads.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nowhere.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Young as I am, old as I am.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I forget tomorrow, the blind man.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I forget the life among the buried windows.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The eyes in the curtains.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The wall</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Growing through the immortelles.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I forget the silence</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The owner of the smile.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This must be what I wanted to be doing, </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Walking at night between the two deserts, </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Singing</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">_______</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I discovered this through an old, dear friend of mine, <a href="http://www.rosebud4projectearth.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Rosalie Miller</span></a>:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.benoitmaubrey.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">http://www.benoitmaubrey.com/</span></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.location1.org/benoit-maubrey-and-audio-ballerinas/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><i>Benoit Maubrey and his Berlin-based Audio Gruppe build electro-acoustic clothing and suits. These are clothes equipped with loudspeakers, amplifiers, and 257 K samplers that enable them to react directly with their environment by recording live sounds, voices, or instruments in their proximity, and amplifying them as a mobile and multi-acoustic performance. They also wear radio receivers, contact microphones, light sensors and electronic looping devices in order to produce, mix, and multiply their own sounds and compose these as an environmental concert. The performers use rechargeable batteries and/or solar cells, which ensures them complete mobility both indoors and outdoors.</i></span></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">_______</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And, finally, <a href="http://www.cheekteethblog.com/2011/03/imagination-art-communication.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">5 of a thousand</span></a>:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">_______</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Make a move, make a sound.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Yes to subtlety</i>.</span></div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-21305065075279833442011-03-21T19:59:00.000-07:002011-03-21T19:59:09.397-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I recently began appreciating Sundays. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For 30 years and 8 months, this particular day has been my least favorite day of the week.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">However, my dear friend Julia has been hosting Sunday brunch at her house and it's been such a treat! Thank you, Julia!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The wonderful, talented people that I've had the pleasure of meeting, over delicious food and mimosas, have endured my "it's a new recipe..." efforts, and I think it's finally paying off.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This past Sunday I made a batch of scones that were pretty good. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The best I've made so far.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And if they didn't taste good, well, they looked good. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ginger, chocolate, & walnut scones<br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A minor success.. a day in the life.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's worth it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">__________</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The dog downstairs howled all day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I realized that it's payback for my smoke alarm that went off for 20 minutes at 5 minute intervals yesterday morning. <i>Sorry neighbors.</i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Hooray scones.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Baking without setting off the fire alarm.<br />
One of these days.<br />
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Quote of the day: "I went to sleep to start over." -Natalie<br />
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It's cold today.<br />
It's better tomorrow.<br />
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Cheers to good starts.<br />
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</div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-57620987643061601382011-03-17T17:37:00.000-07:002011-03-17T17:38:58.095-07:00onward<i>"I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it -our life- hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, delays them incessantly."</i><br />
-Proust<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">___________</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>The Joslyn Museum is free on Saturday mornings from 10-12. I often use that time to wander around the galleries and watch people look at art. Sometimes, I watch these same people watch each other. I like when that happens.<br />
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In between, I sit down with little kids and help them piece together tangrams, or I draw with them, or ask them questions. I introduce myself and shake their hand and wonder about the big ideas and big adventures that are housed inside these teensy people.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">it's so simple. it's so complicated.</td></tr>
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We talk about the shapes that make up their tangram puzzles, and when we get to the parallelogram we say that word together and laugh because it's a mouthful.<br />
But all that matters is that it's something new, and they tried, and they had fun trying, so they'll probably try again... whatever it is.<br />
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We should all laugh, shrug it off, and try again.<br />
Don't you agree?<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">This forever-on-hold-book-project that I keep mulling over is finally ready to go. I made a call to my friend <a href="http://www.jennibrantceramics.com/">Jenni Brant</a>, who is the director at <a href="http://www.khncenterforthearts.org/">Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts</a> <i>(a great place with a great residency for you art people out there)</i> and asked if a letterpress was available to use: "Why, yes it is!"</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">So I'll be visiting Nebraska City in the coming weeks to freshen up on my letterpress skills -or lack thereof. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">___________</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">And while a thousand things have happened in the past 3.5 weeks, </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I'll just share the latest 16 mm highlight:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Owl</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and the Pussycat</td></tr>
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</div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-86273184795118958102011-02-22T17:42:00.000-08:002011-02-22T17:42:13.131-08:00cave<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I can be painfully stubborn. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I've learned to be better. <b>learning.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">We're all learning to be better.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I guess part of being better is noticing when you fail yourself. And remembering. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">And remembering to remember. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">I try.</div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">and notes help</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">because it's easy to forget</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">but sometimes words just don't cut it</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and sometimes a little goes a long way</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Who knows?<br />
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<div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">So at 5:36 pm on this lovely, chilly Tuesday afternoon, as this incredible caffeine-free headache sets in, I can't decide what to do.. cave in or stubborn on.</div></div><div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">cave @ 6:17 pm</td></tr>
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7:23: headache free<br />
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Here's to giving in!<br />
Hope it's been good for you..</div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-1226127700197364052011-02-11T18:36:00.000-08:002011-02-11T18:37:20.786-08:00plans change<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">..but nevermind the details.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Just know that things started going downhill from here: </div><div>After i finished sewing the front cover of this book </div><div>my brow may have furrowed for a split second.</div><div><i>"does that look... nah."</i></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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And then I stitched up the back cover:<br />
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And then I put the two together.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">And then I chucked the damn thing across the room. <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">not really</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">There's no fixing this, I do believe it's a make believe heart. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">It wasn't supposed to be what it looks like. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">But I think it just is now.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Maybe I was secretly fighting the voice of my dear friend Michelle in the back of my mind, "Maranda has no feelings. She's of the rock heart people."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My sidekick Trish, who's back in Kentucky, is an epic email writer. I'm talking novel length here. Sometimes they're funny and sometimes they're sad but usually they're funny/sad... which is even better. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Do you people have a friend like that?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So, Dish, this one has your name on it. Guess it's time to get started on that real book now..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">_______</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And a big thank you to my dear friend Shanee for the surprise mail I received this week! Several years ago she up and moved to Alaska one day and never looked back.. </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div><div style="text-align: left;">It's time for a singer-sewing-break.<br />
Happy Weekend!</div><br />
</div></div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-91911446738671246612011-02-07T20:40:00.000-08:002011-02-07T20:40:12.943-08:00one might think that tornado season came early<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> To Des Moines on Friday.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-6611181692845535722011-02-03T20:51:00.000-08:002011-02-03T20:51:13.403-08:00I'm not sure Proust is changing my life, but I finished the book anywayNext up: <i>The Girl in the Flammable Skirt,</i> by Aimee Bender<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">_________</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Currently based out of Brooklyn,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"> </span><a href="http://www.arthousecoop.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Art House Coop</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"> </span>provides short, fun, creative opportunities for anyone interested in making and sharing. My friend Katey (current writer-in-residence at <a href="http://www.fishtrap.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Fishtrap</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"> </span>in Wallowa County, Oregon) and I recently signed up for the Fiction Project and we will be working collaboratively with text and image. Maybe this is my segue into the segue for those artist books I've been wanting to do.<br />
The 'on-permanent-hold' project.<br />
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I can't imagine how that's happened.<br />
That status should change.<br />
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</div>In the meantime, I met <a href="http://thewritinglife2.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Katey</span></a> at the Jentel Residency in Banner, Wyoming where her dietary restrictions inspired in me a continuing love for spelt flour baking. In addition, she and I did a small print project together. You can get a close up of my E.T. fingers (thanks for the complex, Trish) and learn more about our project <a href="http://cheekteethblog.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">here</span></a>.<br />
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The attic is still holding strong. And the cold draft?<br />
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</div><div>There are so many options for your February First Friday. What's it gonna be?</div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-14896821664650779402011-01-30T09:13:00.000-08:002011-01-30T09:13:45.887-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><div style="text-align: auto;"><div style="text-align: left;">On Saturday, I had my first experience with<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"> </span><a href="http://www.onetreeyoga.com/styles.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Bikram Yoga</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">. </span>This style of yoga takes you through a series of 26 poses that are performed in a heated room (95-100 degrees) over 90-minutes. </div><div style="text-align: left;">It was amazing. </div><div style="text-align: left;">And then I had ice cream, which was pretty great too. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>_____________</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">The weekend also brought me 2 visits from my friend Sean:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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(1 chair + 1 stool = 2 seats in the attic)</td></tr>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Both<a href="http://seanpmorrissey.com/home.html"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Sean</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"> </span>and his boyfriend <a href="http://loringtaoka.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Loring Taoka</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"> </span>are gearing up for their MFA thesis exhibitions this spring. </i><i>Go fellas!! Almost there..</i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>_____________</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">And finally, our friend<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"> <a href="http://yingzhu.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Ying Zhu</span></a> </span>has been busy working on her future studio in Benson. Almost a year ago she and her husband purchased an old building to renovate and last night Sean and I got a tour.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">This is going to be a fantastic space! She and her husband have replaced the entire glass storefront, stripped the walls down to the brick, pulled up layers and layers of plastic, wood, and tile, picked hundreds of staples from the floor, and uncovered the original hardwood flooring. This is such an ambitious project, and there's still so much work to be done, but they're pressing forward and doing a great job! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>_____________</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">Make it all count. Have a good Sunday.</div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-64826387631527556662011-01-27T21:02:00.000-08:002011-01-27T22:54:43.505-08:00do tell<div>I had been considering a move back to Nebraska for some time. Distance makes the heart grow fonder and I had exhausted the opportunities in my small hometown.</div><div><br />
I wasn't sure what I would do when I got here. I had some possibilities and was in the middle of applying for a number of positions, but with no response. I just knew that it was time to go, and a very smart lady told me once that sometimes you just have to make a blind jump. So I did.</div><div><br />
</div>I haven't second guessed my move since I've been back. Everyone, all my friends and even complete strangers have been so helpful and so kind to me, offering me places to stay, giving me names and references, directing me here and there. Despite this positive encouragement, there's been a voice in the back of my head:<br />
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"What will you do, Maranda?"<br />
"What if everything falls through, Maranda?"<br />
"How can you make this work, Maranda?"<br />
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Today at 10:57 am I received some good news. I was offered a position as Youth and Family Programs Coordinator at the<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><i> </i></span><a href="http://www.joslyn.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Joslyn Art Museum</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"> </span>here in Omaha! I am so excited about this opportunity, and thankful.<br />
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SO. I went to the car wash.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">it was intense</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and then it was over</td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div>And so it goes. </div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-62634192578860545662011-01-23T20:53:00.000-08:002011-01-23T20:53:32.598-08:00Uni-Last night, braving the snow, I went out to see some things.<br />
I was unaccompanied.<br />
This was okay.<br />
<br />
When I reached my destination I found a seat and settled in<br />
<b>and then......</b><br />
<br />
Stranger: <i>"Hey, want a drink?"</i><br />
Me: <i>"No thanks."</i><br />
<br />
Stranger: <i>"Having fun?"</i><br />
Me: <i>"Yeah."</i><br />
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Stranger: <i>"So, where's your boyfriend?"</i><br />
Me: <i>"Just me."</i><br />
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Stranger: <i>"He left you here?!?"</i><br />
Me: <i>"No. I'm here by myself. I came alone."</i><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b>Now, this next part is what I really want to share. </b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b>The greatest part of this very, </b><i><b>very </b></i><b>short dialogue:</b></div><br />
Stranger: <i>"What? Seriously?" </i><br />
Then the stranger gives me a SAD FACE and mouths to me, <i>'I'm sorry.'</i><br />
<br />
I think to myself, <i>'I'm so sorry you're talking to me.' (</i>I know, how mean of me)<br />
I gathered my things, bid a quick farewell, and changed seats.<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">_________</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Being humored by his comment, I couldn't help but share.<br />
I mean, who says that to someone?<br />
Sorry? For what? Did<i> I </i>miss something?<br />
Ridiculous.<br />
<br />
So this is for all of you out there who have ever been told by a complete stranger, "I'm sorry you're out in public alone." I am in your circle.<br />
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Here's to a good laugh and the closing of a delightful Sunday!Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-73319381756043067122011-01-20T09:51:00.000-08:002011-01-20T09:51:49.700-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">Surprise mail.. </div>Dear <a href="http://millionsofpeoplehappy.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">Michelle</span></a>, thank you.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">everyone should love letters<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br />
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A fantastic, snowy, late night Wednesday walk.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">snowy night walks</td></tr>
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Dear Curiosity,<br />
Sometimes I wish you'd leave me alone. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I like to think that this house has an amazing library and consumes lots of hot chocolate</td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">___________</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><br />
This morning at 4:28 (because I checked the time), I woke up from the strangest dream.<br />
I was in a Cypress swamp and it was mid summer:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">sort of like this.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>In this Cypress swamp I was lying on a blow up mattress, that was floating on the water, next to a dock.</div><div><br />
</div><div>National Geographic had just highlighted three new fish species in their<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"> </span><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/photogalleries/101207-top-ten-weird-new-animals-2010/#/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">"Weird from 2010"</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"> </span>and it just so<i> happened</i> that all of them lived in this swamp where I was floating. So, as I was lying there, surrounded by algae and cypress knees, someone standing on the dock (who I never saw) kept chucking fish (yes, the new, famous three) onto my "float". </div><div><br />
</div><div>I didn't seem to mind, as I remember laughing as each fish, one at a time, flew over the edge of the dock and landed next to me. It felt like a game.</div><div>So I'd pick each fish up, look at its face, then toss it into the water.</div><div><br />
</div><div>And now I'm annoyed because when I checked the clock at 4:28 and retold the story to myself, I had the clearest image of one of these fish. It was emerald green, slimy (of course), had a fat belly, and its face was long and thin, and it just stared at me with the most void, blank expression. </div><div>Anyway, I was going to get up and draw it, because it was so vivid in my mind, but I didn't, promising myself that I'd remember... </div><div><br />
</div><div>I think there's a lesson there.</div><div>I think I need to get out of my attic.</div><div>I think today is not another all day book making day..</div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733903935437325077.post-25538092181682351052011-01-17T20:43:00.000-08:002011-01-17T20:43:48.561-08:00No, Yes, Meet My Friend Middle Ground.I had two important errands to run today.<br />
I woke up bright and early, got dressed, perched on the edge of my kitchen sink and gave myself a pep talk over yogurt and hot lemon water.<br />
<br />
When packing my car for Omaha, I included a cardboard "special' box that held my professional attire. Just in case. So this morning, I ripped the duct tape off that cardboard box and ironed out the wrinkles in my skirt. I dressed and was nicely prepared for a close encounter with a job I want.<br />
<br />
I am a triple x's 10 checker. So, naturally, I double checked all of my materials before I left the house, fussed over watermarks and cotton/linen blends, then drove to my destination.<br />
<br />
Which was closed.<br />
Because, of course, it just happened to slip my mind that today is Monday and the building is CLOSED on Mondays.<br />
Of course it is. <i>I always miss something. </i>Brilliant, Maranda.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I can blame it on Monday, right? Monday kicked dirt on my campfire.</td></tr>
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So I drove to the post office. Important errand #2.<br />
Determined to keep the day bright, I bounded out of my car, smiling, all the way to the locked door.<br />
Of course, Maranda. Closed. Remember today?<br />
<br />
So I threw an invisible-inside-my-head-tantrum on the grey, snowy, sludge-covered sidewalk, came home, locked myself in my apartment, and spent the rest of the day breaking my sewing machine needles and winding bobbins.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">singer machine, you will not defeat me</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;">___________</div><br />
Being back in a town of more than 15,000 has been so great, but it has made me think about the way I interact/communicate with people. It something that I've been thinking about too, in light of keeping a blog. <i>Which is another conversation altogether...</i><br />
<br />
So communicating. Writing vs. Talking. What's the big deal?<br />
Two things:<br />
1. Conversations. Have I forgotten how to communicate face-to-face?<br />
At times, I think I forget how to talk, and my words always fall short.<br />
Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, sometimes I don't care.<br />
<br />
2. I'm reading a book called, <i>How Proust Can Change Your Life</i>, by Alain de Botton.<br />
I don't remember the last time I read a book that made me laugh out loud, but this one does. It's absurd and chock-full of callous truths. I highly recommend it.<br />
<br />
Anyway, tonight I walked to a pizza place up the road and had dinner with my book. As I was reading, I ran across a couple of passages that addressed my aforementioned concern and I wanted to share:<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><i>"... because the rhythm of a conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we have said, and the missed opportunity of what we have not." </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>"...conversation allows us little room to revise our original utterances, which ill suits our tendency not to know what we are trying to say until we have had at least one go at saying it, whereas writing accommodates and is largely made up of rewriting, during which original thoughts -bare, inarticulate strands- are enriched and nuanced over time..."</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">So, during supper, a very friendly girl came in, sat down next to me, and placed a to go order. While she waited for her food we had the most lovely chat, dead periods and all.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Dear Christie, </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Thank you for an unexpected conversation.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div>Maranda Allbrittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906715689854967524noreply@blogger.com0