YEAR: 2019
START DATE: July 4, 2019
END DATE: September 15, 2019

Limited. No limits. Death and loss. Sixth anniversary of passing of Barbara Boster Phillips. Photos of Barbara Boster Phillips. Missing Barbara. The Fourth of July. Fireworks in NYC. Gathering on the 4th without Barbara or Don Sundeen, who’d died just days prior. Mourning Don and grieving with Poppy. Mending quilts. When I stitch, I bleed. Non-profit bullshit. A thousand trivial bits of bullshit. Artist fighting with artist nonsense. The tree is solitary and giant with some broken limbs. I am solitary. I am in communion. Dark days. Dark collages. Giving up one dream of building a big studio in the back yard. In 29 Pieces, after all the hard lessons, it’s joy that I feel. “My” work. Reframing “my” work. Will Richey and family. Baby Sol. Photo of Baby Sol and me. The dense Blessen and Asche Family Tree. Could I ever write about this? Would I want to go there? Another surgery recommended. Mass shootings. Our hearts cannot break. Nothing soft or easy about being kind. “I have a dream.” Diversion in fashion. Christian Dior exhibit at Dallas Museum of Art. Images of PINK banner for American Airlines Center. Experiment in Bandwidth. What is right action? What hasn’t happened? More surgery recommended. Kelly and Joe mosaics. Creating a new beauty. Phoebe Little paintings. Artists Making a Kinder World logos. Teachers as instruments of love. When mired in the world of limits. Piece 10 at South Dallas Cultural Center. Air resistance to take flight. Make room for the new. Epiphany. How do I take flight if wings are injured? Through consciousness. Answers come. Gathering energy for the push of the compilation of all 29 Pieces materials and curriculum. Catherine the Great. The NAKAZ. Hyatt art. Seeds. Thoughts breed actions. Equivalents. Thoughts = seeds. 8.28.19 - my first correspondence with Richard Graham at UNL LOVE Library abouy bequest of my journals to the library. Friend reactions. First burning experience of betrayal. Friendship after betrayal. Knee surgery. Pressure and strategy. 8 Baby Elephants Dream. Alone-ness and experience of helplessness. How do the proud face the shrivelling? The metronome. Slow and steady. Funny collage faces to lift spirits. How does one embrace THIS? Cards received.

Knee replacement surgery. Prep for Texas Art Educators Conference. First discussion with UNL about journals. Intense work on 29 Pieces curriculum and website.

This was an intense time of 29 Pieces work on the Piece 10 Project, along with endless details about the curriculum and website preparation. Grief for loss of friends, questioning my own limits or unlimitedness. An epiphany about what can happen. Knee surgery ignited ruminations on physical limitations and aging.

The 29 Pieces: Artists Making a Kinder World Legacy Initiative work. Installation of Piece 10 at the South Dallas Cultural Center.