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KAREN WALROND
lightmaker • radiant rebel • total amateur
 

CHOOKOOLOONKS

a journal about making light by karen walrond

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stay the course, friends
Karen WalrondApril 6, 2010 Comments
dude. they really *do* grow up way too fast.
Karen WalrondApril 6, 2010 Comments
workshops, books and no books
Karen WalrondApril 4, 2010 Comments
bonus shot: carnations
Karen WalrondApril 3, 2010 Comments
friday chookooloonks life list update: number 80, taste 50 types of rum; number 64, grow a flower from a seed
Karen WalrondApril 2, 2010 Comments
love thursday: random acts of kindness
Karen WalrondApril 1, 2010 Comments
on redbuds, good reads, and random picks
Karen WalrondMarch 31, 2010 Comments
another pretty berkeley flower; also, a giveaway of katherine center's latest novel, "get lucky"!
Karen WalrondMarch 30, 2010 Comments
pretty flower pictures to atone for neglecting to tell you something
Karen WalrondMarch 28, 2010 Comments
friday chookooloonks life list update: number 52, taste local wine from top 10 winemaking countries; number 80, taste 50 rums
Karen WalrondMarch 26, 2010 Comments
love thursday: the left-my-heart-in-san-francisco edition
Karen WalrondMarch 24, 2010 Comments
random thoughts: what is beauty?
Karen WalrondMarch 21, 2010 Comments
bonus shot: alex
Karen WalrondMarch 20, 2010 Comments
friday chookooloonks life list update: number 16, photograph 1000 faces (the sxsw edition)
Karen WalrondMarch 19, 2010 Comments
love thursday: decompressing at lost parrot cabins
Karen WalrondMarch 18, 2010 Comments
i may not be irish ...
Karen WalrondMarch 16, 2010 Comments
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karen walrond,
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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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