the emptying, ctd

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(previously…) Nearing the end: with everything moved into a few rooms for easy exit and emptying, I’m in a bit of a holding pattern until next Thursday when the donation center arrives to do their thing (all profits go to hospice). Once they’re done, I should have a better idea of what’s going to be needed to wrap up act three (other than cleaning) and get on with the next chapter of my life.

a living room chock full of upturned dressers.
bins and crockpots and torn down entertainment centers in a long rectangular room.

tiny projects

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This interregnum between the penultimate drafting of the main thing and final typesetting and design might be granting me a peek into where I'll be heading, creatively, once it's done: a full embrace of Rubin's experiment train of stake-lowering thought, a practice of tinier, smaller projects, each project existing solely to explore and finish and move on. Partway there with the weekly Shards, but I'm aiming to expand aspects of its intent (namely, that they're nothing but experiments) across the totality of my creative practice; now that the ambition to have anything resembling a creative career is dead and buried, I’m having fun simply tinkering or, as my late grandfather would say, “potting around.”

attempt(s) at thought

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Finding that the longer I'm away from social media the less I think in smaller blasts, the less desire I have to share the tiny and dashed off. Expect, then, this space to move more (back?) towards longer (read: more than 50 words and likely possessed of a title) pieces that are still dashed-off, half-baked, and not at all fully developed but are, nonetheless, representative of an attempt at thought processes deeper than the clever turn of phrase.

That said, (still)life pictures, EarBliss, and Attendance Cards will continue as per normal. Just fewer "status" posts.