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Transitions & Continuity (opens the original)
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Happy National Pickleball Day (opens the original)
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Summer is nostalgia time (opens the original)
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Do you have seasonal “feels”? What I mean is . . . is there a time of year where your senses are peak? Most accessible to making art? Certain smells, sounds, sights, textures—mainlining your experiences for purposes of creation?For me, hands down it’s summer. The blurry boundaries of childhood summers, specifically. License to wander and daydream all day long. The entropy of heat-activated sloth; the smell of my grandmother’s zucchini bread baking in the oven; the freedom, in my tween years, to
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