Collette

It’s a cold-soaked world as Patience and I leave for the studio mid-morning – a sweeping rain – listening to the cultural ancestries radio show featuring Bosnia and Herzegovina before Patience joins friends for two hours of dance

Oxbear, meanwhile, drives Yali to Microcenter for more 3D printer filament and tries to continue sorting out his family’s Christmas celebration in two weeks, plans that have become increasingly complicated and existentially crisis-ed as the season continues

The afternoon wind is very high…

Puck prepares himself a box of ramen before a five-hour shift in Produce…

Yali hand-pieces a JAWS-worthy LEGO shark together while listening to Michael Jackson on his tablet and eating goldfish crackers, creating space in the shark’s stomach for bottles, “dead” arms, and other sea garbage…

Drive south in the wind and rain with lots of discussion and an early birthday burger pick-up in Arnold…

Darkening sky blushes pink while Mama catches up with always-more-dishes, always-more-laundry

Patience helps make a tray of fiesta pinwheel sandwiches for tomorrow’s studio party

Puck returns from work to test out more of the hand propellers as pizzas emerge from the back patio smoker