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KAREN WALROND
lightmaker • radiant rebel • total amateur
 

CHOOKOOLOONKS

a journal about making light by karen walrond

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anniversaries and traditions
Karen WalrondJune 21, 2010 Comments
how i fell in love with nikon (also: monday chookooloonks life list update: number 16, photograph 1000 faces)
Karen WalrondJune 21, 2010 Comments
bonus shots: my family
Karen WalrondJune 19, 2010 Comments
sky = limit
Karen WalrondJune 18, 2010 Comments
love thursday: clinging to hope (or, desiderata)
Karen WalrondJune 17, 2010 Comments
letter to 20-year-old me
Karen WalrondJune 15, 2010 Comments
fake it 'til you make it
Karen WalrondJune 14, 2010 Comments
tedx houston: expanding perceptions
Karen WalrondJune 13, 2010 Comments
friday chookooloonks life list update: number 16, photograph 1000 faces (the pioneer woman edition)
Karen WalrondJune 10, 2010 Comments
love thursday: little gifts
Karen WalrondJune 10, 2010 Comments
on fighting gremlins
Karen WalrondJune 9, 2010 Comments
grab happy
Karen WalrondJune 8, 2010 Comments
striving toward contentment
Karen WalrondJune 6, 2010 Comments
random thoughts: past and present (or why my twitter stream was on fire yesterday)
Karen WalrondJune 4, 2010 Comments
love thursday: how to charm me
Karen WalrondJune 3, 2010 Comments
random thoughts: words to live by
Karen WalrondJune 2, 2010 Comments
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daily light

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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