YEAR: 2017
START DATE: June 17, 2017
END DATE: Dec. 25, 2017

Purple in honor of Prince. Intended to start on June 7 - his birthday, but didn’t start till the 17th. I didn’t gravitate toward purple for most of my life. Since his death, I go to purple - including this blank journal, purchased at Barnes and Noble in Lincoln, NE. Catalog of difficult time of late 2016 and heading into 2017. Trump election. Funding crisis in 29 Pieces, board realities surface and a Come to Jesus moment transpired. Peace after move of 29 Pieces out of office and operations back to our homes and working remotely with the team. Gut punches and standing up again. 22 Thing Going on in 2017. Dana moves back to California. Emotional loss of a friend moving away. What now? Personally. Politically. Worldwide. 29 Pieces. Chart: What stays? What is peeled away? Necessities of my life. Calling the angels in. What calls me? Chart. The days chart. In Facebook, in conversaton. Unshakeable faith meditation/writing. Weather Report chart. State of Contentment. The sacred He becomes She. Ease and contentment from Tramadol. No more pleasing Daddy and a switch to embodying HER. Purple page spreads in honor of Yayoi Kusama. Purple pages in honor of Frida Kahlo. Missing Barbara Boster. Mantrams for Trump. Chart of anger ignition. Negativity of self absorption. I prefer to sleep. Debby and losing people. Neo-Nazis and peaceful demonstrators meet in Charlottesville. My heart does not, cannot break. The ultimate Hunger Games in the USA. The Compassionate, Nurturing Path chart. The Critical Path chart. Constant chronic pain in my hips. 29 Pieces - back and forth. Angst and joy. 29 Pieces was ‘mine’ to alter. Friendship. forgiveness, annoyances, irritations, hurts, letting it go. NYC Nov. 14-20, 2017. Times Square BID party/reunion. Bruised feelings. Negative energy of 2017. Sympatico with certain things about Leonardo (like love of velvet.) More complaints about friends. Extroverted December - lots of parties and quiet Christmas holiday. List of 2017 holiday social engagements. Honoring women artists I admire. Eva Hesse. Beatrix Potter. Yayoi Kusama. Alice Neel. Grandma Moses. Helen Frankenthaler. Mary Delany. Lee Bontecou. Georgia O’Keefe. Frida Kahlo. No studio in back yard as planned and hoped. Left hand and right hand (non-dominant and dominant) writing to contemplate issues.

Restabilizing period after moving from Jefferson Blvd. office of 29 Pieces and back home. There’d been a reckoning on how to proceed with 29 Pieces. Chronic hip pain. Trips to NYC, New Mexico.

29 Pieces moved out of the big Jefferson Blvd. offices. My friend Sibyl Dana Reynolds and her husband moved back to Carmel, CA from Dallas. There’d been a painful reckoning in the first six months of 2017 about what 29 Pieces would be or if it would be. A growing contentment about the future of the organization and how it would operate. Joyful look at and appreciation of some women artists.

Shelving the idea of Piece 10 as we thought it would be. Training teachers in the 29 Pieces curriculum. Looking at possibilites of partnering with a university to offer our curriculum. Creating and prototyping new lessons: Forgiveness, Curiosity and Souls Hidden. Beautiful work with that.