Hello Friends, If you’ve read my newsletter for any length of time, or follow me on social media, you already know I’m all about going for walks and the small gifts I encounter: A rain drop on a rose petal. A friendly cat. Street art. Crows in flight. A fallen leaf… Well, a couple of weeks ago, the streets gifted me with lamps. One thing you may not know about me is that I love art and color and that is reflected in how I design interior spaces. I’ve collected art since I was a teenager, and...

Hello Friends, September 22nd is the equinox this year. That means it is autumn here in the northern hemisphere, which is my favorite time of year. I love both equinoxes, actually—the solstices, too—but autumn is special. First of all, I was born around this time of year. Second, for a nerdy, bookish, neurostrange child who read their way around the Summer Reading Challenge board at the library multiple times, it meant school supplies! More books! Studying things! As an adult, I love the...

Hello Friends, This week, I'm thinking about building. So many creatures build: Homes. Water systems. Food traps. Food storage. Family. Community. They build on purpose and inadvertently, just by living. Whole forests are seeded this way. We humans are no different. We build houses, machines, symphonies, gardens, networks, stories… a series of interactions with each other and the world. We destroy, too, like other creatures, but at a seemingly exponential rate. Trouble is, we often don’t...