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KAREN WALROND
lightmaker • radiant rebel • total amateur
 

CHOOKOOLOONKS

a journal about making light by karen walrond

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list #13: 10 random thoughts that ran through my head as i wrote this post
Karen WalrondJanuary 19, 2011 Comments
chookooloonks life list update: number 16, photograph 1000 faces (patti gras)
Karen WalrondJanuary 18, 2011 Comments
random thoughts: on blogging, the global village and martin luther king jr.
Karen WalrondJanuary 17, 2011 Comments
list #12: 8 happy things
Karen WalrondJanuary 14, 2011 Comments
on love, strangeness & photography
Karen WalrondJanuary 13, 2011 Comments
random thoughts: an experiment
Karen WalrondJanuary 12, 2011 Comments
finding vs. creating
Karen WalrondJanuary 11, 2011 Comments
random thoughts: on connecting with an old friend, taking care of ourselves and solo dance parties
Karen WalrondJanuary 10, 2011 Comments
to keep in mind when things seem to make no sense
Karen WalrondJanuary 8, 2011 Comments
still inhaling
Karen WalrondJanuary 7, 2011 Comments
still hiatusing
Karen WalrondJanuary 6, 2011 Comments
break!
Karen WalrondJanuary 5, 2011 Comments
random thought: on redefining
Karen WalrondJanuary 4, 2011 Comments
2 really great ways to start a new year
Karen WalrondJanuary 2, 2011 Comments
the technical definition of "badassery"
Karen WalrondDecember 31, 2010 Comments
2010: my year in pictures
Karen WalrondDecember 30, 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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