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KAREN WALROND
lightmaker • radiant rebel • total amateur
 

CHOOKOOLOONKS

a journal about making light by karen walrond

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how to exorcise a funk
how to exorcise a funk

I’m feeling better now.

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random thoughtsKaren WalrondMarch 18, 2021Comment
sunup :: sundown
sunup :: sundown

God bless science.

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random thoughtsKaren WalrondMarch 15, 2021 Comment
this was a good week
this was a good week

Featuring global masks, Yukon dancing, and bowling alley drones.

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a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondMarch 12, 2021 Comment
random thoughts:  signs of hope
random thoughts: signs of hope

Things are slowly starting to look up.

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random thoughtsKaren WalrondMarch 8, 2021 Comments
this is 17.
this is 17.

Already?!

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familyKaren WalrondMarch 3, 2021 Comments
random thoughts: staying in the game
random thoughts: staying in the game

Some thoughts on a quieter few months.

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random thoughtsKaren WalrondMarch 1, 2021 Comments
this was a good week
this was a good week

Featuring craftivism, designing happiness, and an uncommonly Caribbean happy hour (join us!)

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a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondFebruary 26, 2021Comment
lessons from the cold
lessons from the cold

Something to remember the next time it’s cold and dark.

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random thoughtsKaren WalrondFebruary 22, 2021Comment
this was a week
this was a week

This was a challenging week here in Texas. But there was still some good.

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a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondFebruary 19, 2021 Comment
still in it (and how you can help)
still in it (and how you can help)

How you can help those suffering from the winter storm in Texas.

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how to make lightKaren WalrondFebruary 17, 2021 Comments
the ice storm cameth
the ice storm cameth

Brrrrr.

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how to make lightKaren WalrondFebruary 15, 2021 Comments
this was a good week
this was a good week

Featuring pop instruments, art on tea bags, and happy Bhutan.

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a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondFebruary 12, 2021Comment
the lesson of the steups
the lesson of the steups

Finding familiar in the foreign.

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how to make lightKaren WalrondFebruary 10, 2021 Comments
new book, new site!
new book, new site!

Welcome to the new Chookooloonks — and the new book!

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big plansKaren WalrondFebruary 8, 2021 Comments
this was a good week (and an announcement!)
this was a good week (and an announcement!)

Featuring a paper samurai, apple mug cake, and a sea shanty that is a joyful earworm.

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a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondJanuary 22, 2021Comment
my word of the year practice
my word of the year practice

How I operationalize my word of the year.

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big plansKaren WalrondJanuary 18, 2021 Comments
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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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