here are some words I wrote today on the first page os a new notebook today “We are made of weather.”

The way I keep track of the words that provoke me – is by keeping my Visual Journals and adding writing , often, as I read, or listen to music, adding the things that resonate. Often the page will dialogue with its own contents- and the mixture of art and words stimulates my creative process. Stream of consciousness- making connections with intuition.

Just today I recorded “Sila”- Inuit meaning both weather and consiousness.
Consider how land-ocean-atmosphere, solar and galactic cycles are inextricably linked. And so are we.

I love your photos of this lovely time of snow! And your words.
karen – Your mama of Dada!

I love this thought. I spent 4 days last week in the cold territories of my homeland- the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Plying the vibrant library shelves, I found a couple of amazing books- who reads them there in my little town, I don’t know, but I poured over them in front of the fire. And copied in to my little Moleskin travel sketchbook some passages that caught my fancy. I posted one on my website, which I know you will love.

I also keep a little sketchbook in my purse at all times for moments when one of my kids says something pungent or someone suggests a good book. My Travel journal is the container of the next level of inspirations…stuff I might use as jumping off points for writing or collage. Here is one I copied from the book titled “Assemblage” published in 1961: “The assembler is especially akin to the modern poet, however, in which using elements which (unlike ‘pure’ colors,lines, planes or musical tones) retain marks of their previous form and history. Like words, they are associationally alive. ”

Don’t you love that? I will scan a few of my pages and put them on the slideshow at the laundry line for you to see.

I love your site here and the Sister Project. I am looking for ways to interact here. Thank you for this invitation! Love, S