YEAR: 2020
START DATE: January 22, 2020
END DATE: February 9, 2020

Responsibility. To-do lists. Sustaining peace, beauty, and magic in the face of mounting responsibility. Responsible behavior. Perception shifts. Nature of responsibility within 29 Pieces. Psychotic break of a friend. Rafi and the slide. Unexpected joy. Unexpected sorrow. Methods of human connectivity. The possibility of delight within responsibility. Harbingers of delight. Hypocrisy and failed leadership of leaders of the land. Trump. Responsibility to: Family, friends, God's creation, 29 Pieces, the Work, the Work of Life, the Education of the Heart, and to my Self. Beginning of the Trust for Public Land Park Project. Children's art in six schools. Photos of the 29 Pieces Valentine lunch. Valentine cards. Abraham Lincoln quote on responsibility.

Planning for 29 Pieces work in 2020. Mental breakdown of a good friend. Beginning of work with Trust for Public Land.

I looked ahead at the work and fundraising for 29 Pieces in 2020, as well as Kelly’s upcoming two major orthopedic surgeries (and the caregiving that would be required of me). To make all things possible, I make a list. If it’s on the list, it becomes part of my consciousness and it will get done. To work through feelings of overwhelm, I began to think about how to maintain delight within responsibilities. I do not have time or the desire to wait until responsibilities lighten up to experience joy, delight, and peace. If I want magic, be the magician. This was my cataloging of responsibilities, and strategies for doing perception shifts and practices to defeat the fatigue that comes with overwhelm, and to assure myself that joy and peace are possible—and even inherent—within responsibility. Art for journal covers includes cut-out lines from my to-do lists.

Trust for Public Land Cool Schools Project. We were making plans and meeting staff and teachers involved. This was prior to serious consideration of a looming pandemic, and it was full steam ahead with the TPL project, as well as the Legacy Initiative for Artists Making a Kinder World. We continued work on the AMAKW website (artistsmakingakinderworld.org) and strategizing for a social media campaign for it.