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Vagabond, cyclist, explorer, photographer, skater, screen printer, birder, strict vegetarian, electrician, freelancer 4 hire
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Summer into Fall | Life update!
The people in these pics, friends old and new here in Chicago, have been bringing the magic! Thanks friends! I’m especially happy lately to have my two adopted adult nieces (and former students) Zoe and Sophie [ @zoecpendleton & @perfect.blue__ ] here in Chicago (1st pic) and to have met my *bandmate*, ride-or-die, and new queerplatonic gf Annie Låda [ @svart.lada ] (photographer of the second to last pic of me, and jamming in the last video).
Chicago summer and early fall are truly the best times of the year. Moving at the start of that seasonal arc was such a good plan. I’m not looking forward to the sun going away for five months. I had Seasonal Affective Disorder in Denver – with the 300+ sunny days a year! When I lived in Chicago 2005-07 things were DARK – literally. I still remember the late November day it was so overcast the street lights never turned off!
I’m coming out the other end of really going through it. The one year anniversary of Heather and I splitting up, the practical stages of divorce, and adjusting to a financially precarious lifestyle has caught up with me.
I also had a hard rebound by falling in love, and forming an on-again off-again on-again off-again relationship here which just ended in a 5th and final breakup on the occasion of my 53rd birthday – hopefully we can be friends. So, it looks like I’m singe for the second time in my adult life, which is it’s own whole unique brand of hell.
I’m doing my best to be proactive about my mental health, and am trying something new – psychiatry in addition to therapy.
I’ve gone on this life arc from feeling like I’m a little wild and prone to feeling down, to self-medicating for decades but thinking I’m “fine”, to getting sober and realizing I need to take my mental health more seriously, to seeking help and treatment. All that took 35 years of full fledged adulting! It’s never too late for self realization and self-work. I recently went to visit my 84 year old Dad in Wyoming – whose genes I’m wearing – and he told me about how he’s started working on his mental health! It’s never too late, and I’m working toward, and am hopeful for, my future.](https://s7.imginn.com/564902156_18536790403025603_8357135136508360383_n.jpg?t51.82787-15/564902156_18536790403025603_8357135136508360383_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpegr_e35_p1290x1290_tt6&_nc_cat=109&ig_cache_key=Mzc0NTM2ODg1MTQ3NjUwMzcyOQ%3D%3D.3-ccb7-5&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=58cdad&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6IkNBUk9VU0VMX0lURU0ueHBpZHMuMTQ0MC5oZHIucmVndWxhcl9waG90by5DMyJ9&_nc_ohc=VGeZYl-YvsYQ7kNvwF4jSYB&_nc_oc=AdpNRV8CrMrpIV6sbuzZLEjE65plAWj2utlqHotalXR9iJopoIUy0VLfABw02A4QnxaSMauh-FUvKE58-qR0P_3Z&_nc_ad=z-m&_nc_cid=0&_nc_zt=23&se=-1&_nc_ht=scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_gid=CTk2tgquvSnkYZH9vNWf8Q&_nc_ss=7a20f&oh=00_AQPG7C2C7C359qcHRU3nqGulCihzAa8BYVA0fd0nYm7bog&oe=6ADF9C82)
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Summer into Fall | Work update!
Now that this account is mostly personal I’m less inclined to post. But, maybe a quarterly update is needed? Tell me if you’re into it.
If you’re a new follower this is what you get; unending story pics of discarded plastic flossers, random event marketing for Quimby’s, and quarterly three part, cringe level personal, max character count essays.
Last time I checked in with y’all I’d recently moved to Chicago after resigning my 17 year full-time full-professor gig in Denver to help run “the worlds best book store in Chicago” (thanks to @dudlawson for the officially unofficial tagline.)
Aligning my creative practices and work life has always been a panacea. I expend most of my intellectual and creative energy on my art practice, and most of my time on earning a paycheck. Work for money provides a budget, skills, and equipment for my art practice but hinders it by taking up time.
I thought becoming a Professor was that. And maybe it is for someone. But not for anyone I’ve ever met! (And I know a lot of academics.) Art academia just piles the requirement you have a meticulously documented and specifically successful practice onto a demanding full time job. (If you’re ultra-lucky enough to get a full time gig.) You might be afforded time or funding, but not if you work for a low-funded public teaching school like I did.
Running a business is SO different! I have three coworkers (as opposed to a hierarchy of 50 students, 8 program colleagues, 20 department colleagues, 1,000’s of additional University colleagues and staff.) You can immediately affect change! But you can also immediately fuck it up!
I’ve been SO thankful for my Quimby’s business partner Cody [ @codykasselman ], who is my rock in this enterprise, Liz [ @caboosezine ] my mentor in all things running a bookstore, Manny [ @manny_suena ] my longtime droog, creative partner, and partner in Quimby’s community outreach and Angel [ @angel.xoxoxoxox ] the über talented spark of Quimby’s who we’re so happy to have back in the store.](https://s7.imginn.com/565181498_18536788774025603_8678669450795379431_n.jpg?t51.82787-15/565181498_18536788774025603_8678669450795379431_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpegr_e35_p1290x1290_tt6&_nc_cat=103&ig_cache_key=Mzc0NTM2MDkwMTA0NzQxMjMwNA%3D%3D.3-ccb7-5&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=58cdad&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6IkNBUk9VU0VMX0lURU0ueHBpZHMuMTQ0MC5oZHIucmVndWxhcl9waG90by5DMyJ9&_nc_ohc=EeVFrUgP970Q7kNvwE67OqY&_nc_oc=AdpbYS1eNeSmrTEx0biTc1wsk1Q4wKvIaL9UtsRklXtJSJvoSgHGbLEceaZoZQkXHJo7k19CwGNWo4h1XoJDtowh&_nc_ad=z-m&_nc_cid=0&_nc_zt=23&se=-1&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com&_nc_gid=CTk2tgquvSnkYZH9vNWf8Q&_nc_ss=7a20f&oh=00_AQN6tc8n0hWsSGaThRFsJ3_t9k6MFCISnrsdxM8Jz21sdw&oe=6ADF7657)
