I'm out in Colorado now. Seeing old faces covered by masks and old places without any people. I've been asking myself what the world might look like if the last four years hadn't happened the way they did, and why I've been watching so many movies about the multiverse.

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I'll be back on Friday with another essay from Colorado.

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The creative process ebbs and flows. This essay is about getting back access to pictures I haven't seen in over a year, and how getting them back has invigorated me.

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An essay I wrote in the middle of May. I reread it this morning as a reminder of what it felt like then, and as a reminder that there's still a long way to go before the world will ever go back to anything like it was before.

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I'm leaving Maine in two days. Going back to the Midwest, then on to Colorado. I'm excited to get out there, but thinking about the folks I'm leaving. The folks who inspire me, challenge me, and make me who I am.

My words this week are haircut/agree.

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I'm getting ready to head west again, first to Wisconsin, then on to Colorado and Wyoming. I've been thinking about the uncertainty of my plans in the next few months, and that's where this essay came from. My words this week are curve/stoop.

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My words this week are bright/foamy.

Working on some bigger projects for the show in the coming weeks.

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Still out in Maine doing some cool things with cool people. Thinking about clothes with this essay. My words are stitch/dwell.

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I've been reading Annie Dillard lately, and she inspired this essay. My words were inhabit/wrench.

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This is the story of what happened during my root canal. 

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My words this week were interest/tooth.

My words this week were downtown/request.

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