KAREN WALROND
Home Books Speaking Coaching the make light journal
HomeBooksSpeakingCoachingthe make light journal
KAREN WALROND
lightmaker • radiant rebel • total amateur
 

CHOOKOOLOONKS

a journal about making light by karen walrond

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that felt damn good (82/100)
that felt damn good (82/100)

Get out there, friends.

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Karen WalrondOctober 13, 2020Comment
lucky coincidence (81/100)
lucky coincidence (81/100)

Thank God it wasn’t what I thought it was.

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placesKaren WalrondOctober 12, 2020Comment
international day of the girl (80/100)
international day of the girl (80/100)
familyKaren WalrondOctober 11, 2020Comment
connection (79/100)
connection (79/100)

Ask me anything.

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big plansKaren WalrondOctober 10, 2020Comment
this was a good week (78/100)
this was a good week (78/100)

Featuring a floating home, international meals, and an unexpected inventor.

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a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondOctober 9, 2020Comment
the mango tree (77/100)
the mango tree (77/100)

File under “things that remind me of home.”

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placesKaren WalrondOctober 8, 2020 Comments
serenity now (76/100)
serenity now (76/100)

An image and music to help calm.

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Karen WalrondOctober 7, 2020 Comments
I got interviewed on lifehacker (75/100)
I got interviewed on lifehacker (75/100)

This interview was so much fun.

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Karen WalrondOctober 6, 2020 Comment
i'm not kidding:  register to vote (74/100)
i'm not kidding: register to vote (74/100)

TODAY IS THE DEADLINE.

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big plansKaren WalrondOctober 5, 2020 Comments
americans: register. to. vote. (73/100)
americans: register. to. vote. (73/100)

We are running out of time.

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big plansKaren WalrondOctober 4, 2020Comment
covid buddies (72/100)
covid buddies (72/100)

COVID buddies for the win.

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familyKaren WalrondOctober 3, 2020Comment
no this-was-a-good-week post today (71/100)
no this-was-a-good-week post today (71/100)

We’re glued to the news.

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Karen WalrondOctober 2, 2020Comment
social distance happy hour, redux (70/100)
social distance happy hour, redux (70/100)

Feeling gratitude for good neighbours.

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placesKaren WalrondOctober 1, 2020Comment
we the people choose love (69/100)
we the people choose love (69/100)

Choose love. CHOOSE. LOVE.

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big plans, friends, how to make lightKaren WalrondSeptember 30, 2020 Comments
it's finally here! (68/100)
it's finally here! (68/100)

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, summer.

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placesKaren WalrondSeptember 29, 2020 Comments
interloper (67/100)
interloper (67/100)
placesKaren WalrondSeptember 28, 2020 Comments
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"...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
Portrait of the indubitably amateur potter and the mug she made.

(I now have a set of 8 non-identical-mugs-despite-trying-to-make-them-identical, and 8 similarly-non-matching bowls, so if anyone wants to come over for a breakfast of fruit and yogurt
 

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