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Next to my desk I keep a printout of Bruce Mau's Incomplete Manifesto for Growth. Today I am especially feeling #11 Harvest ideas, #22 Make your own tools, #25 Don't clean your desk, and #42 Remember. I am trying to make something of my desk space.

I keep accumulating images, patterns, bits of paper--things to make my desk a happier place (so maybe more writing and making will happen here?). I've been admiring Lisa Congdon's new adventure: Collection a Day, 2010.



I especially enjoy samples like these that are drawn, perhaps imagined. Most of my imagined collections are written out: jars, vessels, glances, lists of things to do or build.

School starts in a few days, so I am spending time grounding myself, making simple goals in hopes that I can maintain them once I am busier. I want to return to my visual art--maybe just start with small collages here and there. I am convinced there may be a relationship between writing and walking, and I am going to try to do more of both this year. #33 Take field trips...