Fri. June 27, 2025: Another Week in the Books

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Friday, June 27, 2025

Waxing Moon

Pluto Retrograde

Cloudy and cooler

The end of another week.

I was tempted to skip the online meditation group yesterday, but I didn’t, because it is the last one until September. Every summer, I’m convinced it won’t start up again in fall, especially since each summer break gets longer and longer.

But meditation was good, and Charlotte was happy.

After breakfast, I took out the garbage and returned the fan. There was no problem returning it, and they gave me a refund without the receipt, because I had the special membership card in the store, and they had the details in the machine. The manager was kind of horrified at the poor design of the fan. So that was all good.

Home, read over the notes on the ghostwriting project, came up with some questions I need answered before I can proceed.

Spent a good portion of the day out of the house on a project that serves as research for another project, but I can’t talk about either project, and I apologize for being vague. I hate vague posting. It was by turns fascinating, exhausting, and disturbing, and I got mountains of material out of it for a variety of projects. But they asked us not to discuss the specifics of the day itself. I do have a lot of notes to write up for myself, though, that I can use in various projects.

I realized, late in the day, that I’d forgotten to send the newsletter out, so I did so, before going out with some of the people I’d worked with so intensely earlier in the day. I also turned around a small coverage. I’d dreaded it, but the piece was so good I read far beyond the pages I was paid to read. If this is my last coverage for them, I’m going out on a high note.

It cooled down a good bit, which is nice, since it was 89F inside the apartment when I woke up and 79F by dinnertime. By this morning, it was 73 inside, and just right.

I feel like there’s so much rapid change happening: D. Wayne Lukas seriously ill and turning over his horses to one of his assistants. Anna Wintour stepping down as the EIC of VOGUE. (As a wardrobe person, VOGUE was always a big part of my life).

On a more immediate level, Assets4Artists has spun off into its own organization, with the residencies staying at MASS MoCA as part of their Visual Arts Department. The official separation begins the day before the Boiler House start this year’s residency. It’s supposed to be all smooth, but one never knows. One step at a time.

Fatigued and didn’t sleep well. Too much rolling around in my brain.

This morning, I have to do my regular Friday library and grocery runs. I’ll have an early lunch and head down to Lenox for the WAM show. Tomorrow, I’m working on the textile piece (when I’m not doing housework), and Sunday is my reading in Greenfield. I also have a book to read for review over the weekend, and I may start reading next month’s scripts for WAM.

And then, another week starts!

It’s supposed to be a pleasant weekend, but up to 88 again on Monday. I hope not, since I have a workshop to attend virtually, so it’s not like I can pack up and go elsewhere.

Have a great weekend!