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I put together a short video highlighting some of the intriguing concepts in the book Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. They offer up a wealth of insights, and I'll be thinking about the impact of this new perspective for a while.

Metaphors intended.

As part of a Digital Storytelling Workshop, I made a new video Why travel? There isn't one single answer to this question, so I really struggled with the end. As it turns out, the search for an answer is critical to the question.

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It had been quite a while since I updated the site, so there are updates galore: every page except art has some new content!

Most of the art on this page is from 2005 and older, so it is clearly overdue for an update. Until I have time to do the massive overhaul that is needed, more recent art is available on Instagram.

One of the habits that I am most glad to have started last year was buying a hobonichi techo, a fancy planner from Japan. There is a whole community online devoted to people drawing and writing in their hobonichi, using the book to manage their lives but also as a means of recording their lived experiences. Because of the little events like finishing my master's degree and buying a house, I didn't manage to fill every page for 2015 but looking at my hobonichi brings me right back to each of those days that I did write something. I am looking forward to another year experienced and recorded.

(For the curious, I do frequently post pages on tumblr.)

For the first time this year, I have enough art to do a "year in review" post.