You guys, I'm kind of ... happy.
(Add overwhelmed, exhausted, nervous, determined, busy, activated, curious, learning, unlearning, teaching [?], sharing, self-preserving, taking-care-of, buzzing, zoned out.)
All in fiftytwotwelve
Woman Two: Artist Kayla Carlson
Look at that cat. Look at its eyes and its soft round body. The spots, and how it's perched, just watching.
Look at this tiny failure, and how it's OK
That print up there. I ... don't love it. I mean, it's my baby. It's the first one I conceptualized for this project, and the one that I keep redrawing to find the best version. I've still got the sketch pad in front of me (under my elbow as I'm writing, right now, in case I think of a thing to do to it).
Woman One: Cary Clifford
It's been three years since I was behind the counter at Cary's bakery (which I can hardly believe), and two years since we lived in North Carolina. But when I visit, Camino still feels like the home I left (even if so many faces are new), and Cary is still gliding through the center of it.
If there were a year to choose to be unafraid of my own voice, this is it. And a year to amplify to the voices of others, this year, too.