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June 2025

6.23.25
for your index of delight this week... collecting color
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Lorene Edwards Forkner
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Summer Intentions
making a list... Remember summer? Lazy days and blue skies, plucking lawn daisies and making flower chains, trading genuine handwritten letters with my…
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6.16.25
Sweet peas for your index of delight this week
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Making a Garden
it's supposed to be fun... I studied art in college but for years I shied away from creating any work. Then one day I looked up, covered in dirt…
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6.9.25
This week's index of delight -- pay attention to good things, strawberries, and an equation for miracles.
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Learning to Love
Forty five years ago, Mount St Helen’s blew her stack. On May 18, 1980, the mountain, whose summit once stood at 9,677 feet, was reduced to 8,365 feet…
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6.2.25
This week's index of delight  Amanda Marchard & Leah Sobsey, To make a prairie at the Brandywine Museum May 24 to September 7, 2025
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May 2025

Repeating Myself
imperfect pep talks & small miracles...I didn’t wake up this morning thinking I should write about finches and crows and existential dread. Often, I…
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5.26.25
This week's index of delight...
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Befriend Your Attention
I'm an attention artist making marks in watercolor... When we put in the effort to see, we notice more—we’re able to reframe the familiar. I feel like…
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5.19.25
This week's index of delight...  “I believe very much in the tradition that art comes from art and nothing else.” — Wayne Thiebaud
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