Honest to Nod Art

"What I want is a quiet life.

I mean a life that listens: to other people, to my place, to silence.  I want to notice even the smallest things, to stay immediate to my surroundings.  But daily distraction can be so fragmenting, so addictive...

It is a generous gift – to choose the way I want to live, in spite of circumstances.  I believe that I am daily shaping myself through my decisions, and so I make them earnestly, carefully.  But I too easily fall into patterns I believe to be obligatory – habits of convenience I depend upon."

- Julie Pointer (from Kinfolk, volume three)