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KAREN WALROND
lightmaker • radiant rebel • total amateur
 

CHOOKOOLOONKS

a journal about making light by karen walrond

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tropics (2/100)
tropics (2/100)

Starting a creative practice.

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big plansKaren WalrondJuly 25, 2020Comment
this was a good week (1/100)
this was a good week (1/100)

Featuring babies, song and light.

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a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondJuly 24, 2020 Comments
a good trouble revolution
a good trouble revolution

How will you get yourself in good trouble?

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big plans, how to make light, random thoughtsKaren WalrondJuly 20, 2020 Comments
this was a good week
this was a good week

Featuring board games, bélé and a birthday!

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a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondJuly 17, 2020 Comments
this was a good week
this was a good week

Featuring Sydney, a talented songstress and a little surprise.

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a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondJuly 10, 2020Comment
this was a good week
this was a good week

Featuring a beloved bartender, a world portrait, and Hamilton.

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a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondJuly 3, 2020 Comments
what is activism?
what is activism?

How do you define activism?

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big plansKaren WalrondJune 29, 2020 Comments
this was a good week
this was a good week

Featuring begonias, embroidery, and The Chicks.

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a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondJune 26, 2020 Comments
go brave
go brave

it’s time to speak my mind — with my values close at hand.

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random thoughtsKaren WalrondJune 24, 2020 Comments
this was a good week
this was a good week

Featuring Malala Yousafzai's graduation, pandemic prom, and dads of America.

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a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondJune 19, 2020Comment
hi.
hi.

Things are going to be a little different around here.

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big plansKaren WalrondJune 14, 2020 Comments
i've run out of words ...
i've run out of words ...
random thoughts, places, how to make lightKaren WalrondJune 2, 2020 Comments
this was a good week (resources for being anti-racist)
this was a good week (resources for being anti-racist)

A list of sites, books, movies and videos to help get you started on living an anti-racist life.

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random thoughts, a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondMay 29, 2020 Comments
so close
so close

We’re in final approach.

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familyKaren WalrondMay 27, 2020 Comments
this was a good week
this was a good week

Featuring a special birthday serenade, free art, and multicultural crayons!

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a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondMay 22, 2020 Comments
around here
around here

This book feels different. It’s overwhelming and exciting.

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random thoughts, placesKaren WalrondMay 20, 2020 Comments
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daily light

I was just talking to my dad on the phone, and fretting about … well, everything.  And he said, in the way only a Trinidadian father can:

“What is to is will is, my child.”

And he’s so right.
"...rather than simply being a workshop where I have access to a wheel, the pottery has become a home-away-from-home, a “third space” — that place that’s not home and not work, but where I still connect with others in com
Hitting the road headed home after a lovely #mom2summit. But first…
"I loved this so much: 'stay human' feels like a more realistic, more imperative goal; more than 'stay calm,' far more than 'stay positive.” It feels like what the Artemis II astronauts were reminding us to do. And it feels … I dunn
 

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