YEAR: 2020
START DATE: January 1, 2020
END DATE: January 30, 2020 2020

2020. Beginning of a new decade. A chart - 2020 as a road. What are the bricks? What is the mortar? What are the rest stops? What are the dangers? The human body is finite. Intensifying poignancy in knowing and recognizing connections in this life. Sadness and grief that at this age, any time I see someone may be the last. Australia fires = first horror of 2020. $81,000 grant from Trust for Public Land and
Texas Trees Foundation. Connection with Jonathan McNulty - the twin brother of David McNulty, who was killed in our front yard. Wounds of murder. Birth of the ‘baby elephants.’ (Referring to dream described in 2019 journal.) “You are unstoppable.” Trip to NYC to see FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF WOMEN’S WORK, the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection at the Grolier Club. Mission of trip was to visit Grolier Club and NYC libraries to observe and document how these institutions display books and how collections are best prepared for future researchers. Meeting Lisa Unger Baskin. Magical day in New York. Sense of well being. New York Public Library. J.D. Salinger exhibit. Made at NYPL Exhibit. Meeting Wallace Shawn there. Displays contextualize the artifacts. Book binding by women in France. Repeated sense of inexplicable well being while in NY. Wave not the water. Broadway is the central vein of a long leaf. The heaven of walking for miles in New York. After 3 orthopedic surgeries to get me to this again. Morgan Library. Duane Michals exhibit: Word and Image. New York Public Library built on animal skin fortune. Met Breuer - Home is a Foreign Place exhibit. Jody Shields and I at the Metropolitan Museum on a Friday evening. Cafe Sabarsky with Jody. I was a free man in Paris. A recollection, a recognition of freedom. Re-entry into responsibility. Walking in Central Park. Beacon Hotel room with a view. How much magic do we need? Best Small Garden award from Dallas.

Travel to New York City to research book display and to talk with archivists about how best to catalog books, images, journals to make them researchable.

I traveled to New York to research book display, archiving, NYC libraries of all kinds - as many as I could go to in a few days. I was excited about my bequest of my journals
to LOVE Library at the University of Nebraska, and I wanted to be informed and smart about how to do this. Blank journal is a handmade book created by Terri LeNoir of Paper Arts, Dallas.

Planning for the year/s ahead for 29 Pieces. 2020 was our 15th year and we were planning programming and events around that. None happened due to Covid-19. Received $81,000 grant from Trust for Public Land and Texas Trees Foundation for Cool Schools Park Projects to work with students to do six public art projects at six Dallas ISD schools.