tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78128087236786613722024-03-12T18:29:11.676-07:00Sunny Rising LeatherAllisunny S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17806275775227416608noreply@blogger.comBlogger1712125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812808723678661372.post-18965906372612871992016-10-17T19:02:00.000-07:002016-10-17T19:02:04.232-07:00Surfacing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hovering in this digital space for the first time in over six months I have more questions than content.</div>
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Should I write the blunt and honest truth about the time away from this space that I once filled with so much art and thought?</div>
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Do I share the details of my life in the way I once felt was natural, so intimate and open?</div>
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Does anyone even frequent this little old rusty page?</div>
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Lord knows I haven't been here much.</div>
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I had a rough descent and a hard-won rise starting in January.</div>
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None of it felt safe to talk about the way I'd become accustomed to talking, so I found myself silent at first from fear and the stigma of mental health issues, and then from life shifts and renovations and ultimately a big move.</div>
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My fingers feel creaky upon the keys.</div>
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I don't have new work to share as I've been gone from my mediums for nearly three months.</div>
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My head is full of so many details that I cannot seem to think of what used to feel like the 'right' thing to say.</div>
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I spent the last calendar year getting well from debilitating anxiety. The kind that shuts your life down, narrowing your list of safe experiences until there are very few and even those feel scary</div>
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or dangerous.</div>
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Every bump in the night created terror.</div>
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Every headache was a death knell.</div>
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The final straw were heart attack symptoms, so real and physical that I could no longer muscle through.</div>
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I committed to getting well and with the help of a gifted therapist, pure grit and a supportive family I retrieved the pearls from the deep darkness and surfaced.</div>
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In the midst of all that healing and excavating we as a family have found ourselves (as if by some miracle) in Washington state,</div>
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specifically in the basement apartment of beloved friends</div>
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while we sort out the buying and selling of houses</div>
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between here and California.</div>
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It feels tender in my heart to even type the word 'California'. It's knitted in my cells. </div>
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I wanted to get away from it in the worst way, the overcrowding and sharpness</div>
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but it still calls from the south,</div>
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still reminds me of my vibrant middle-youth</div>
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and assures me I can visit anytime I want.</div>
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I will not be going home to it again after 13 years of doing so. Beside family and motherhood I've never been so dedicated as I was to a place, to an idea.</div>
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California. There's a reason so many songs are written </div>
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about its cities and people: it's amazing.</div>
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And difficult.</div>
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I was nervous about this move and felt unsure of whether I was strong enough to endure the chaos of change so freshly </div>
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on my feet from adrenal overwhelm.</div>
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We've gone through real estate hijinks and massive unanswered question marks</div>
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and though I've tried to take Rilke's advice and love those unknowns I have mostly just </div>
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barely liked them</div>
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or kicked them under the table.</div>
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We are so lucky to know the tribe we already have here and daily living is a testament to receiving and breathing 'thank you' in a million moments. I am learning how hard it is for me to receive without</div>
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having much to give in return beyond friendship and cooking.</div>
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It's so humbling to be handed daily gifts.</div>
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It's beautiful and hard and cracks my heart open, so that's what I concentrate on:</div>
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what pours out when the fissure breaks.</div>
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There are opportunities to work here and there, but mostly with O out of preschool I am full-time mothering. He's miraculous.</div>
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I love belonging to him as he grows into a full-fledged boy.</div>
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Our move also means that he gets SO much more Daddy. Both in time and in the form of a rested man for whom weekends are now a pleasure instead of a forced period of rest.</div>
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This move was very much a soul choice, a chance to slow down and make room and draw nearer to each other. It's very beautiful to be living those choices.</div>
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I love watching our life here unfold, challenging as it can be to ride the real estate roller coaster</div>
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of shifting dates and funding fall-outs.</div>
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Seattle is so full of great food and introverted people and blessed blessed rain</div>
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and without a school to get O to or work to attend to we can tromp about</div>
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like semi-lost vagabonds and explore the weird and wonderful</div>
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emerald landscape and EAT all of the things.</div>
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Then some days in the late afternoon he draws and I paint a long-awaited project and we get a taste of our past rhythms</div>
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in this fresh new place.</div>
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I look around in the morning and everything is odd and beautiful,</div>
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the nature of traveling a distance underwater and then surfacing.</div>
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I take a deep breath</div>
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begin again</div>
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Once on a plane ride home to San Jose we passed low over the Sunol Hills</div>
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at sunset. The earth was carpeted in this very same soft velvet moss green and my heart was heavy with yearning. </div>
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All I had was city, all I wanted was what I was seeing.</div>
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I don't think we'd even considered this part of the Bay Area or the prospect of a move yet.</div>
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Tonight Orion and I got in the car and chased the sunset to my Happy Place.</div>
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As I watched the last light bleed hibiscus pink into a large dark grey weather system</div>
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I pictured going back in time and whispering into my sad younger ear</div>
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"Someday you'll belong to this earth. Just you wait."</div>
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Would I have even believed? And yet here we are, in love.</div>
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There are so many lessons in faith happening right now in our lives.</div>
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In the makeshift studio custom orders and bluebirds are diligently coming to life</div>
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and in the actual studio we've got a slight setback but a renovation end date sometime next week.</div>
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I really look forward to showing you around once it's ready.</div>
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In the meanwhile this view ain't half bad.</div>
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Love,</div>
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Allisunny S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17806275775227416608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812808723678661372.post-23817006735821940312016-02-19T07:38:00.000-08:002016-02-19T07:38:12.741-08:00I Can Breathe Here<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Slowly but even more surely I have been unkinking the fears that stop me from living.</div>
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Avoidance of wild spaces.</div>
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All the 'what ifs' that too much city life and too much media</div>
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Simply taking a hike on my own feels like an act of defiance.</div>
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It also feels like actually touching life again, like being a child.</div>
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I watched winged things playing in the breeze,</div>
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heard a choir of birdsong in live oak.</div>
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There was no one to share it with</div>
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but I thought of my tall tromping Kelly and knew she'd appreciate</div>
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how low the turkey vulture flew over the trail.</div>
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That wonderful rustling sound!</div>
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I thought of O and how in gathering my courage,</div>
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Construction began this morning on my studio.</div>
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What was previously an uninsulated garage with no ceiling will be a gorgeous space</div>
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for me to expand SunnyRising,</div>
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complete with can lights and a Vent A Fume exhaust system.</div>
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Warm blue walls.</div>
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In about three weeks I'll give you a tour!</div>
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xoxo,</div>
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He's well again. Knock wood! Preschool, man. Preschool Petri Dish.</div>
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Thank goodness for family and love and tribe. For patient recipients of art.</div>
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Remember that project I was going to devote an hour per day completing?</div>
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It's darn near complete.</div>
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Nearly forty hours in this piece.</div>
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I held my breath riveting in that huge and beautiful Brazilian Faceted Quartz.</div>
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towards symmetry. I have never made a leather canvas before.</div>
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There are a thousand "I have never"s in this piece.</div>
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She is integral to the next phase of things, to the evolution of Sunny Rising.</div>
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In just a little while there'll be a place that houses everything: blog, shop, teaching dates, etc.</div>
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As this holiday season winds down I head into my ninth year of SunnyRising: almost a decade of </div>
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As I write this I am in the latter midst of a creative drought, fittingly in California.</div>
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Though I could go back into the sketchbook and bring out maybe hundreds of ideas that previously </div>
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I am working slowly but surely on a very long term project, one whose unrealized existence may have been the thing stopping the flow of new ideas. More about that in a minute.</div>
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Creative drought could start with anything. </div>
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I mean really though, it could be twenty thousand things that gum up the works. As sensing people there's a good chance that we're...sensitive! News from around the world of late would be enough cause to put down the brush/hammer/torch and weep, let alone stress from our own lives.</div>
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Whatever the cause of this slowing, it's such a normal and integral part of a maker's life...it's why we change course mid-stream, it's what makes us re-evaluate and tweak our businesses and artistic work.</div>
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Perhaps it's a tap on the shoulder reminding us to please take a break.</div>
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Do you take enough breaks? Me either. We should work on that. Ha ha.</div>
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Once we're in that dry spell it just...well, it just fucks with you. Let's just let real be real.</div>
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Confidence becomes despair and sometimes we spin our wheels so fast that we're just more mired down than before we did anything to fix our situation.</div>
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I'm not sure doubling down on work is the key, though it might be.</div>
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I'm not sure taking off for Fiji to find ourself is the solution, though wow it sounds really nice (and it might be).</div>
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It's completely different for each person</div>
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If it's a natural wave pattern complete with crest and trough then isn't it a lot less scary?</div>
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It's daunting!</div>
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that with almost a decade of in-the-black business ownership under my belt it is STILL utterly unsettling. Terrifying, actually. I like to think of my art life as a very healthy organism, that I keep all the parts oiled and dry but in the midst of raising a beloved little boy and running a household sometimes things get a little rusty.</div>
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Pair the oxidation with less than robust sales in the last few months and I'm really sitting at that crossroad of "what needs to change?" with a sharp discomfort. Like many of you, my income is not really optional, it's necessary. That definitely puts pressure on the decisions. There's only so much wiggle room.</div>
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I'm doing what has always been the thing that needs to be done when two roads diverge in that old yellow wood:</div>
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I am leaping wildly over the hill in the middle, not sure of what's on the other side.</div>
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For the longest time I had this intense vision of a piece of art, like for your wall.</div>
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Not made of metal (though employing it in places) but tooled leather both flat and formed.</div>
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It represented the apex of what my hands can do with the mediums I love.</div>
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It woke me up in the morning, it kept me up late.</div>
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IT SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME.</div>
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But every day I take an hour and I work on it (I pinkie swore with myself that I would). I work on small pieces that go into <a href="http://www.sunnyrisingmetal.etsy.com/">My</a> <a href="http://www.sunnyrising.etsy.com/">Shops</a></div>
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and things long-promised to patient friends and then I do what I promised I'd do.</div>
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My drought-cause thought is that this wall art idea was so game-changing and persistent that it clogged the pipe.</div>
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It held off the rain clouds.</div>
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Am I still nervous in the midst of what could be a game-changer? Ohmygod yes. Am I paralyzed? Heavens no. That's a waste of time. </div>
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The alternative is falling apart and digging in our heels. That might be fun for a while, melodrama can be very satisfying but ultimately that's such a silly way to spend the days when we've got these gifted and useful hands. Let's not wring them, let's use them to build the foundation for future work.</div>
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What started for me as "Fine!! I'll do it!!" has become a guide of sorts: 'Chrysalis Heart' will be the centerpiece of a new website where all of the things that previously got scattered over the interwebs will have one central point. I think I'll write more.</div>
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I think I'll look into other selling options, be they art shows or stockists.</div>
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sometimes we innovate and survive in our chosen field.</div>
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None of these paths are any less valid than the next or the previous.</div>
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I'm making lists</div>
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and what needs to go suck on a lump of coal.</div>
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I am getting loving advice from my best advisors.</div>
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I am delighting in the holiday successes of my brothers and sisters in making because it's gorgeous to see someone fly.</div>
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I am baking and snuggling and talking endlessly about superhero stuff with my favorite guys.</div>
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I trust that the world is wide and infinitely filled with possibilities.</div>
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I trust that what made me has guided me to make.</div>
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I trust that if I see this process as an adventure it will be so.</div>
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Even the droughty bits.</div>
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With great wishes for your own crests and troughs,</div>
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Wishbone Necklace. Grossular Green Garnet, Cabbed Here. Sterling Silver Wishbone.</div>
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I wanted to take this time to tell you how much it means to me,</div>
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your support of not just my small business but all small business.</div>
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You have an infinity of choices and I am honored every time something </div>
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Thank you</div>
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xoxo,</div>
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Early Night Sky. Coral. Sterling silver. Enamel and watercolor on copper.</div>
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Those Singular Kyanite Earrings from yesterday? On.</div>
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Cecil the Lion, Tribute Necklace. Prehnite. Brass. Sterling. Feathers for his journey.</div>
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Singular Magic: Kyanite in fine and sterling silvers. Enamel and watercolor on copper crescent moon.</div>
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Blood Moon Earrings: mother of pearl in fine and sterling silvers. Seed beads on brass. Organic brass hoops. Sterling ear wires.</div>
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These beautiful pieces in all of their intricacy and endless attention to detail. These pieces, made in my studio in all its hot and cold, these are my valentines to our new place in this world and particularly to the evenings and nights we've come to love in such a short time.</div>
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Relief. Everything out here feels like relief.</div>
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Soothing evenings where the wind whips in from the ocean to wipe the slate clean. This cooling was especially magical in the summer with its fire pit afternoons. </div>
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As I was tucking Orion into bed one night (like every night) I saw one of the dippers through his window. It was not dim or faint. In its brightness it winked at me and I exclaimed like a child, full of wonder and feeling like I'd half forgotten what stars look like away from a city sky.</div>
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Each little crescent or half moon of enameled watercolor was fired at least six-seven times. The process is long and rewarding. I am so grateful and excited to share this with you, these little sketches that stem from gratitude.</div>
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They were not made as an exception to challenge,</div>
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after being parched for too long.</div>
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"If you could go anywhere you wanted to this morning, anywhere that would feel like a total luxury, where would you go?", she asked as we sat with our coffee.</div>
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California unfurling like a blonde curl.</div>
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All around us, signs of the incredible drought. A mud-pit where there once was a lake,</div>
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Still, the relief and still the ache.</div>
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It was all enough,</div>
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the entire length of the country outside the plane windows...</div>
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For the last nearly nine years of running SunnyRising I ruled my space with a statement that has turned out to be wildly untrue:</div>
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"If the outside is messy, the inside is messy, too"</div>
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If the space is a mess, so is the brain of the maker.</div>
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Here I am, knee deep in what appears to be clutter and chaos and I am thriving.</div>
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THRIVING.</div>
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The total tidiness myth was a prison.</div>
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Though clean single-purpose surfaces are something I don't feel like I can ever give up (hygienic packaging table, frequently swept floors)</div>
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I have let everything else be what it is right now.</div>
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Metal forms abound.</div>
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Cabbed rocks spill out of drawers.</div>
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Abundance is alive.</div>
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If it eventually smothers something important</div>
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then there'll be time to </div>
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make it better.</div>
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I don't put everything away when I'm done using it.</div>
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This means I don't have to get it out again when I use it tomorrow.</div>
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For almost nine years</div>
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I have thought an artist needed a beautiful space</div>
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to make beautiful things.</div>
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In order to appeal to that part of myself that still believes, I have built a spaceship (thanks, <a href="http://www.soyala.com/">Robin</a>)</div>
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of beauty and relative order</div>
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and from the cockpit I can look upon the vastness of the shop</div>
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and feel both the safety of my vessel and the spaciousness of </div>
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what's possible.</div>
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It's working.</div>
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I'm working.</div>
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He's working. </div>
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I am learning that it doesn't have to be precious.</div>
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I am getting the hang of letting things hang.</div>
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I am blowing raspberries at my Perfectionist and hoping</div>
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that she'll see the humor in my heart</div>
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and the lightness in my step</div>
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That everything is saying, "Come along!"</div>
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with a sweep of the arm</div>
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and a dirt-smudged cheek.</div>
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xoxo,</div>
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Sunny</div>
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Allisunny S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17806275775227416608noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812808723678661372.post-78022440249119118822015-10-04T16:36:00.002-07:002015-10-04T18:21:59.240-07:00Ring and Necklace Preview<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am not messing around: this is a serious influx of serious gems and metalwork.</div>
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I have never been more in love with a collection of hours and sweat spent making.</div>
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The new space did it: I blame a friendly ghost and seeing into the rafters.</div>
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The gifts of the coming autumn have been many. I slowed down some.</div>
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I cleaned up some bad habits I'd indulged in for too long.</div>
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I got really clear about what mattered.</div>
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I have so much to show you, I think you can feel this good place in the work,</div>
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it resonates.</div>
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Ping!!!</div>
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Blue Opal Orb Weaver Valentine Necklace with Untreated Sleeping Beauty Turquoise and Carved Coral Roses. Brass chain connectors, hand fabricated. Hammer Engraved web.</div>
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Ammonite Postcard Necklace with Minnesota Garden weed and Jacaranda Frond.</div>
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Little Collages from the places I love.</div>
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Baltic Amber and Chrysoprase Orb Weaver Valentine Necklace. Hammer Engraved. Oxidized sterling chain fringe. </div>
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Botanical Ring. Hammer Engraved.</div>
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Holy Bones Ring. Soft Faceted Howlite, cabbed by me. Feather impression and Chicken Wishbone Band. Size 6.</div>
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Holy Bones Ring in Labradorite. Striated Golden Flash. Chicken Wishbone Cast Band. Size 8.25</div>
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Surrounded by all of the beauty a smaller California country town affords,</div>
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egged on by a large and unpretentious workspace</div>
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I hammered and sweated and soldered and set happily.</div>
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I really look forward to offering this work up to the world </div>
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<a href="http://www.sunnyrisingmetal.etsy.com/">HERE</a></div>
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tomorrow at 5 PM Pacific time.</div>
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xoxox,</div>
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Allisunny S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17806275775227416608noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812808723678661372.post-66689206841023643392015-09-17T19:16:00.001-07:002015-09-17T19:16:31.961-07:00To Have a Son<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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To have a kid is to go on the adventure of a lifetime.</div>
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I certainly cannot stress enough that it's the hardest work I've ever done.</div>
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Everything else comes after his needs and that can be tough as hell.</div>
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I'm at a total loss about Doing It Right pretty consistently</div>
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This morning I apologized for being cranky</div>
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while I was driving with him</div>
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and from the back seat he said,</div>
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"Aw, Mom, that's okay - I will take care of you today."</div>
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And just like that, a flood of joy. A waterway open</div>
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for our little boat.</div>
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Around and around and around the world we go,</div>
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where we stop only God knows</div>
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xoxo,</div>
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Allisunny S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17806275775227416608noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812808723678661372.post-1702268870699096612015-09-14T10:47:00.000-07:002015-09-14T11:06:37.570-07:00Rooting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is the before, which is also the now.</div>
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Bit by delicious bit I'll be making this garage into</div>
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I've always landed in a room that needs nothing more than a fresh coat of paint: everything all ready to go, just move all the benches against the walls and begin. This space is incredible in the way it presents both challenges and gifts: not a wealth of wall space and nothing I would call 'pretty', but VAST. </div>
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In just a few weeks this will be my soldering station extraordinaire, with a new actual jeweler's bench</div>
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(!!!!) and a bright cheery yellow-orange paint job. Poppies will unfurl. Switch plates may even get replaced: this is going to be very very good.</div>
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Last night I tapped my graver across a fresh piece of sterling and took my first pass at what will end up being Cecil the Lion. If you're on the internet ever you likely know his story: a dentist from Minneapolis paid 55,000 usd to kill him in Africa. </div>
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I mourned for him and all his death represents, for the terrible way we treat the earth and all her creatures.</div>
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Part of his engraved proceeds will go to charity. Maybe you can help me pick out a relevant one?</div>
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I'll be researching.</div>
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The myriad Orb Weavers doing their very best to wrap up our back yard have </div>
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inspired a few pretty saddle rings: this one will have an ammonite doublet at its center, vibrant and incredible.</div>
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This month's round of work will be a celebration of the emptying out</div>
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that is harvest-time, the exploration of husks</div>
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and the dregs of summer.</div>
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I hope you're doing so well today. </div>
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We are settling in to the peace of our new home.</div>
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The hard work of constant schlep is done: we have moved!</div>
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Almost as if to reinforce the right choice to do so,</div>
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I read news of someone being stabbed in the neck two blocks away from our old home in downtown</div>
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San Jose.</div>
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Of yet another homicide a mile away.</div>
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I could tell you of the stress that started undoing me, raising a tender young thing in the midst of what had steadily become more violent surroundings.</div>
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Of losing some of my eyebrows to it.</div>
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Of nights where tension worked its way across my face in tight waves I could not stop.</div>
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Of some young party-goer ringing my doorbell wildly near 10 pm ( "Bitch, come OUT! It's time to go!!") and how I melted down </div>
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spectacularly upon closing the door.</div>
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Of a stranger trying to climb into my neighbor's kitchen window at 5 am, given away by the crunch of the gravel and scared off by my loud voice a few feet away across the driveway.</div>
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The reduced police force in a terrible state of overwork.</div>
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Rumors of emergency response times taking upwards of ten minutes or much more.</div>
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The crush of unmedicated and unwell transient souls that roamed the streets in need and in pain.</div>
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I loved our rental house so much, that ramshackle cottage that saw us through five years of </div>
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the two young professionals that had moved in childless.</div>
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I could never turn off my vigilance and it was wreaking havoc on my body.</div>
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Any small noise at night set my heart pounding and kept me up until dawn.</div>
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I needed a small town again.</div>
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The balm of rolling blonde hills.</div>
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I wanted O to grow up with a mom who was well and strong.</div>
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As much as I loved city living for a younger version of myself,</div>
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My second bedroom blue studio is traded for a white-walled garage space</div>
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where my workbenches circle around the center point like stones around a campfire.</div>
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I'm intimidated by the largeness of the space</div>
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and at the same time I am giddy every time I set foot in there.</div>
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It's more industrial</div>
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and super free</div>
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and I can drop molten things on the freshly painted grey concrete floor without fear.</div>
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Schmilly and I are pretty sure we'll be building a handsome studio structure in the back yard</div>
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after the (hopefully) rainy season passes,</div>
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but I want to feel out the garage: maybe I won't want something new after I expand to fill</div>
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the space fearlessly.</div>
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We are unfurling.</div>
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Sitting still with the silence here,</div>
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driving the country roads</div>
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and looking at the stars that seem to have multiplied 30 miles away from where we rarely saw them.</div>
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We are here.</div>
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We are here.</div>
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All is well</div>
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xoxo,</div>
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Sunny</div>
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Elephant Protector Necklace. Heart Chakra. Hand-faceted chrysoprase (done in-studio).</div>
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Fern. Pepper Flower. Brass.</div>
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Faceted Sleeping Beauty Turquoise Sterling Cast Wishbone Necklace. Cabbed in-studio.</div>
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Fern and Dragonfly Seed Bead Earrings. Kingman and Sleeping Beauty turquoise.</div>
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Royston Turquoise and Bronze Wishbone Necklace</div>
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Friendship Bracelet Earrings. Sleeping Beauty Turquoise. </div>
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Libra Wishbone Earrings. Shell. Seed Beads. Cast Bronze Wishbones.</div>
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Starry Bangle. Brass and Sterling silver. up to 7 inch wrist.</div>
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Mmmmmm I wanna Linger</div>
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Mmmmmm A little Longer</div>
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Mmmmm a little longer here with you.</div>
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Mmmmmm it's such a perfect night</div>
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Mmmmmm it doesn't seem quite right</div>
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Mmmmm that this will be my last with you.</div>
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Mmmmm and come September I will remember</div>
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Mmmmm this precious night and friendships true</div>
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Mmmm and as the years go by</div>
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Mmmmm I'll think of you and sigh</div>
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Mmmmm it was goodnight and not goodbye</div>
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Last campfire tonight at 5 pm Pacific.</div>
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xoxoxo,</div>
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Sunny</div>
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(Hammer engraved and chased sterling elephant with faceted chrysoprase, cabbed here.</div>
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pepper tree flower. Fern. Brass sunrays. )</div>
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1/3 of our home is currently boxed up, but the studio will be the last to be packed and the first thing to live in our new home.</div>
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More than ever my work is the balm, the thing that smoothes me out</div>
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when I've become parched and cracked.</div>
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I have one last large offering for the </div>
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(Oak leaf and seed bead trinity earrings.)</div>
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In a few weeks I take off to be with family in the midwest and then settle our life in </div>
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Livermore's golden, undulating hills.</div>
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It's been so strangely slow in coming, but it's speeding up so much: documents, keys, painting rooms...</div>
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The collection that will be revealed Monday</div>
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is a really romantic goodbye to summer.</div>
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The last campfire at sleep-away, the one where everyone sits singing</div>
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with their arms around each other, trying not to cry.</div>
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There's a lot of emotion in saying good bye to this wonderful old house</div>
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where so much life has come to pass.</div>
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Five years in one place was the longest I've lived anywhere outside of my </div>
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childhood home, a house so embedded in me that just thinking about it </div>
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When I come back to work in September</div>
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I might not be offering shop updates for some time:</div>
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I may do a little swarm of custom orders because it's been FOREVER</div>
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or I may be moving more fully into leatherwork</div>
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and bags in particular.</div>
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I can't wait to tell you more.</div>
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I can't wait to KNOW more!!</div>
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Any way you cut it, things will be a little different.</div>
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I sat at the wheels this morning and cabbed/ finicky-finished these stones.</div>
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I listened to the wind whistle through our three impossibly tall palm trees,</div>
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the ones that shed violently all over the yard during winter windstorms.</div>
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Our scrub jay came close to the mudroom porch looking for peanuts.</div>
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I breathed into the place that leaving this home has already cracked.</div>
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It hurts.</div>
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It's also giddy.</div>
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It wants out/ it wants back in.</div>
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Everything's both sides now.</div>
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I'll post an official preview this weekend.</div>
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xoxoxoxo,</div>
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Sunny</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">15% off in the </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">until tomorrow morning:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">use coupon code SUMMERFLING</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy Shopping,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunny</span></div>
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Lapidary</div>
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My own holy trinity in the place I go to pray</div>
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xoxo,</div>
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Sunny</div>
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Allisunny S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17806275775227416608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812808723678661372.post-16635016010972539292015-07-14T18:44:00.002-07:002015-07-15T13:48:33.340-07:00Summer Camp Preview<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Camp Jacaranda Earrings. Royston Turquoise. Brass fronds. Seed Beads. Sterling Feather.</div>
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xoxo,</div>
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Allisunny S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17806275775227416608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812808723678661372.post-86805745659270911262015-07-13T18:08:00.002-07:002015-07-13T18:08:42.101-07:00Summer Camp Series<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Friendship Bracelets for your ears with all manner of fine American turquoises paired with seed beads</div>
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and a perfect summer necklace: strawberry top, grossular green garnet and feathers.</div>
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Minty green chrysoprase</div>
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bronze wishbones</div>
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Sing-alongs every morning before breakfast</div>
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and a smores campfire at 7:00 pm on Friday night:</div>
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grab your kit at the mess hall on your way down to the lake.</div>
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Camp SunnyRising is in full swing:</div>
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make sure to pack your swimsuit and some stamps to write home -</div>
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it's beautiful here!</div>
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Allisunny S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17806275775227416608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812808723678661372.post-48110280008243011512015-07-12T13:50:00.002-07:002015-07-12T13:50:16.112-07:00Dreaming in 18X10<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's a bunch of boards right now, interconnected gardening sheds</div>
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but in less than a year it's going to be my studio.</div>
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A separate building from our home, a few short steps away from hot coffee and </div>
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An actual dream come to fruition.</div>
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I've spent the last five years making everything I've fabricated and crafted out of a second bedroom and </div>
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century old garage… this will be an immense pleasure, </div>
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mapping out what needs to be where and how to build out the space in such a way that </div>
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A space where students could come, a place that looks over the golden hills of Livermore's wine country.</div>
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Even if everything falls apart with the home purchase (as I hear can happen)</div>
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I've still got dreams at the forefront of my mind and I don't see that changing,</div>
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no matter where moving falls on a timeline:</div>
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a switch has been flipped</div>
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I could tell you about the highs and lows of the last year,</div>
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about the city feeling so walled</div>
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about wanting to scale the pressing heights and get out </div>
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to where I could find my breath.</div>
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The sky felt small.</div>
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I couldn't see stars,</div>
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just the pink of light pollution,</div>
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hearing the sound of freeways in my ears.</div>
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Blech.</div>
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It was tiresome to experience</div>
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such a strong desire for movement when movement felt impossible,</div>
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so I set about making our beloved cottage feel really nice</div>
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and working close to the bone in my second bedroom studio.</div>
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I set about blooming where I was planted</div>
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even though there were days where I might have felt more optimistic than others.</div>
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I explored letting life carry me</div>
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like the chariot tarot card I drew at <a href="http://www.umberdove.com/">Kelly's</a>,</div>
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with varying degrees of surrender</div>
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as we searched for home.</div>
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In this month of transition</div>
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there's a lot of hard work ahead</div>
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physically and mentally</div>
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but I feel strong</div>
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and guided.</div>
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All of this to say:</div>
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if you've hit a wall,</div>
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pull up a chair and sit with it.</div>
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Rest in that space.</div>
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Don't exhaust yourself with scrambling,</div>
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just wait</div>
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and inhabit that waiting</div>
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until it becomes enough</div>
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I wish I'd not have spent so much golden time attempting to scale</div>
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"Slow magic" as my <a href="http://www.soyala.com/">Robin</a> says.</div>
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Like mountains are made,</div>
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like rivers begin</div>
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from a drop</div>
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xoxo,</div>
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Sunny</div>
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<br />Allisunny S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17806275775227416608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812808723678661372.post-84921627660409698162015-07-06T14:38:00.002-07:002015-07-06T14:38:52.239-07:00Present Moment Clutch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Right there, at the center of all things</div>
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At the top of this forever-now</div>
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rests a place where wonderment and risk are married</div>
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where the infinity of what's possible</div>
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thrills and terrifies and spellbinds our animal brains.</div>
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Will we thrive?</div>
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Will we die?</div>
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Will there be stasis?</div>
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Never for long.</div>
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Sometimes we hesitate to reach out of what feels safe</div>
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because we know that being bitten is just as much of a possibility as being caressed.</div>
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I think regret might be worse.</div>
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Regret is a deathbed for thousands of worthy threads we never followed,</div>
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all the bright ribbons that whispered, "this way!"</div>
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as we stood rooted in our desire for something constant.</div>
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For safety.</div>
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All of the risk-takers I know live in technicolor.</div>
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They use fear as their seasoning, counting on it as a companion not-always wise but always present.</div>
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If everything is a risk</div>
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and we get to decide how we dance with that, these folks are </div>
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doing the twist atop a swan float party boat on the river Styx.</div>
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Or very quietly finding the groundless center of their lives on a meditation cushion.</div>
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All effort is brave and worthy.</div>
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Here's what I know:</div>
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you cannot get small enough</div>
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humble enough</div>
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or isolated enough</div>
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to avoid that stunning verdant scaly visitor.</div>
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All we know for certain is that we're alive and at some point we die.<br />
you either cower in the dark</div>
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or reach for the light</div>
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or fucking conga-line the shit out of this<br />
present moment.<br />
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So? So.<br />
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I'll see you on the dance floor, Star.<br />
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Fine double milled veg-tanned leather</div>
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tooled and painted and stitched</div>
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lined in blood red suede</div>
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wild war-paint touches of crimson and turquoise chevron spikes</div>
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Southwest-inspired turn latch</div>
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warm and wild</div>
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and</div>
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in the</div>
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<a href="http://www.sunnyrising.etsy.com/">Leather Shop</a></div>
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later today</div>
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I just got back from Washington state a few days ago. I spent four days surrounded by friends and love, where one of my <a href="http://www.umberdove.com/">best girls</a> sat with her own eternal now,</div>
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one that is sharp and beautiful and painful.</div>
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In her now she monitors and combats cancerous cells</div>
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and also she gardens.</div>
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She attends constant doctor's appointments</div>
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and builds jewelry from scratch.</div>
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She lives on the knife edge</div>
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where grief and bravery</div>
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and grace and humor</div>
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collide</div>
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In her now she is bitten. Blooming still.</div>
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In her now she is gifted.</div>
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Walking through the fire.</div>
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Visiting.</div>
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Visited.</div>
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We've started a GoFundMe page</div>
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for her treatment and healing:</div>
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please </div>
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<a href="http://www.gofundme.com/morekellyclark">DONATE</a></div>
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xoxo,</div>
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Sunny</div>
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