picturing possible, compelling futures. this small work is a moment spent in seeing where we are now, how we are transfigured by recent years, acknowledging the profound change that is happening and connecting to each other and the greater world to begin to live in a way that is remarkably different.

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in living without owning a car these seven years, what our normal has shifted to, the questions we asked ourselves, and how we think about it all now, running a little subsistence farm, unschooling, living simply in community on a small island.

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this small work looks at the habits that yield creativity and at accepting that we might need structures to support those habits.

"rhythm, ritual, routine and the reinvention of our patterns for living that emerge from its steadiness is both the stuff of the upcoming season of my series, the journal of small work*, and how i find time to make it at all."

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