Landschaft

The last couple months have felt like holding onto a wagon for dear life as it careens down a mountainside! Lots of deadlines, projects, activities, errands, and whatnot. Here in the UP, there's this almost manic energy that kicks in around June, because our summers are so short and we have to do-all-the-things. That energy reaches full fever pitch in the fall right up until the weather changes, when we all collectively let out a sigh and resign ourselves to cozying up in the gray times. We haven't crossed that threshold yet, but I can see it on the horizon.

Speaking of human habits being affected by where they live, last week when I was at the Michigan Outdoor Summit we explored the etymology of the word "landscape." One of the origins is the German word "Landschaft," which originally linked place with the people that inhabited it. The land shaped them, and they in turn shaped the land. They were connected, inseparable. This is a really powerful framing, and something I've been mulling over ever since.

Ink on Paper

Land of Outsiders generously asked me to work up a print for the Summit. It was a wild ride, but came together really nicely! I go into more depth on it here.

Created a stamp for my brother-in-beard, the Mad Space Poet. The "A" in "MAD" turned out to be a little low, but it adds a nice imperfect touch!

Words Elsewhere

I've had a piece in the queue at Hintology for a few months, but they're running into some major issues (spoiler: Meta sucks!). If they don't end up moving forward with it, I'll publish it here or elsewhere.

Upcoming Events

Got some stuff in the works, but nothing finalized yet.

Other Rambles

"Fall is. It always comes round, with its lovely patience. If in the beginning it's restless, at the end it's resigned, complete in its waiting, complete in the utter correctness of what it has to tell us. Which is that we're transitory. We're transient, we're temporary, we're all only sometime." ~ Joy Williams

See you out there,

PB