Monday, April 21, 2008

Earth Day


Tomorrow I will wear my solar hat to the school where I teach and I'll bike to work too but the articles getting my attention are less the thoughtful and encouraging like Michael Pollan's and more the bitter and satirical like Gail Collin's "fat Bush" piece in the New York times or this one in Salon about dumping Earth Day. In truth I feel torn between the desire to be "virtuous" as Pollan calls it and do my part and a cynical despair that it is far too late to do anything but "slow the growth"and cope with the resulting catastrophe.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

spring wash



It's in the 80's in Oakland and I'm hanging out the wash. Yesterday 5 yo daughter asked " does God think it's summer?".

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

new work



This is what I made during my spring break. Materials include cups from a baby shower, tea tin, thread spool, wire, play dough top, Peets iced coffee cup, motor, solar panel, epoxy.

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Transforming Kehilla Comunity Synagogue Sanctuary

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