When You Smile

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fishwrap 4 scent sweetens with age

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Fishwrap magazine has won two more awards; I.D. Magazine's Design distinction Award (in some serious company) - link below.

id online.com

...and is included in the (2005) 365: AIGA Year in Design 26 annual under Editorial Design - link below as well.

aiga design archives


not that it's the reason I do what I do, but it's nice to be recognized in your field. definitely.



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re:Birth(ing) process

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re:birth magazine is almost out the door to the printer. it is the new magazine created with the artwork of the students of La Vida H.S. in Inglewood, CA - a school of pregnant teens and young mothers and fathers. more info later on the launch of the 'zine. it will be in Venice, CA on June 2nd at Equator books. we're really excited about how the collaboration with the Street Poets has worked out.

a major storm was threatening all day. tornado watch and all that, but it never materialized.

I took Ruca out for a walk on our usual route.

we walk behind the Native American college - out to the medicine wheel. Haskell college is free for people of native descent.

I implore the medicine whell to reveal it's spiritual secrets, but am apparently not ready for the information, or already enlightened.




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The Butterfly Collector

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I can't believe I forgot this one from a few weeks ago. That's Alex. Our friend John's son.



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all the same to me...

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lucero.


kelvin before the show.


they are from memphis and remind me of old replacements if they were from the south instead of minneapolis. a lot of uncle tupelo and whiskeytown influence with a little arena-rock dynamics thrown in. must be a southern thing. it was great.


the third song they did was "kiss the bottle" by jawbreaker. yeah.


the bass player was wearing a merle haggard t-shirt that said "love it or leave it" and had a tears for fears sticker on his amp. awesome.


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I saw my baby (getting sloppy)

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first person who can identify the title of the blog wins (kurt?).




mother and daughter relaxing.


our friend and neighbor, lacey with little v. she is moving to korea to teach english for a year. reminds me of ten years ago. have fun.


just sitting back, posing, looking cool with her little, pink, checkered vans on.



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down by the water

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nothing to say, really. just that our little flower is sitting up really well and still enjoying the bath.



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marc jacobs stole my girl

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it says "violet" on it for my blindish friends.



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baby, you can drive my car...

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violet drove us down to her second swimming lesson on saturday.



they are really more like group splashing and bobbing around lessons, getting them used to the water.




we had so much fun this time and even went completely underwater for the first time.



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guess who?

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little violet is back online. we got a new card for our broken camera finally.

spring is also here.

this is the newest project - well phase one. the sidewalk is being replaced because it was destroyed by these roots. we are going around them a little bit and the forestry service is going to "stump them down a little bit to try and save the tree.





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