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KAREN WALROND
lightmaker • radiant rebel • total amateur
 

CHOOKOOLOONKS

a journal about making light by karen walrond

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the work of other people: me, through justin hackworth's lens, and a video by katherine center
Karen WalrondJanuary 29, 2010 Comments
love thursday: witness
Karen WalrondJanuary 28, 2010 Comments
guest photographer: irène nam
Karen WalrondJanuary 27, 2010 Comments
haiti: this time it's personal
Karen WalrondJanuary 25, 2010 Comments
approaching salt lake city
Karen WalrondJanuary 24, 2010 Comments
beautiful different
Karen WalrondJanuary 22, 2010 Comments
love thursday: unexpected kindness
Karen WalrondJanuary 21, 2010 Comments
guest photographer: jen gray
Karen WalrondJanuary 20, 2010 Comments
shooting and writing, writing and shooting
Karen WalrondJanuary 19, 2010 Comments
the beauty of different photo shoot: january 16, 2010
Karen WalrondJanuary 17, 2010 Comments
the light inside
Karen WalrondJanuary 15, 2010 Comments
love thursday: haiti
Karen WalrondJanuary 14, 2010 Comments
guest photographer: joshua yetman
Karen WalrondJanuary 13, 2010 Comments
random thoughts: about that book
Karen WalrondJanuary 12, 2010 Comments
milestone
Karen WalrondJanuary 10, 2010 Comments
as warm as cheesy grits and hot sauce
Karen WalrondJanuary 8, 2010 Comments
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I love this week between Christmas and New Year’s, don’t you? It’s just so much QUIETER: no shopping needs to be done, no pressure to entertain, no reason to hustle. Bliss.

So tonight, Marcus and I are going out for dinner, just us
I MADE THIS FOR YOU. 

Over the last month, I’ve spent hours every day planning out the immediate future of my work and my career to fully encapsulate my word of the year for 2026:

KINSHIP. 

This led to the design of an entirely new website:
Happy Christmas from our house to yours! 🌴🎄
"A few weeks ago, I mentioned I was going to take the entire month of December off: I’d just come off of book tour, and I was in lovely, Christmas-y Bath, so the thinking was that I’d spend lazy days with mugs of tea and relaxing mus
 

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