Deeper than Skin

Waterford stared at the toothbrush, bewildered. "And you put this implement in your mouth?" he questioned, his wide eyes scanning the face of his host. "Doesn't it bite?"

Between attending the AIGA Y Design Conference in San Diego (the last week of March), a rather quiet birthday on the first of April, and a portfolio review on the third of April I've found myself quite turned around. With only a few weeks left in school, I'm forced to reconsider where I've found myself.

First, I've been far too focused on what needs to be done. Too often I look at things as an objective, with defined paths toward accomplishment. Once something is done, it is time to move on to the next problem. The in-between has stopped mattering to me so much, and I look at things less for the journey and more for the purpose.

I've almost stopped looking at things poetically; they've become a series of events, with automatic perceptions and judgments that like to snap at a conclusion and leave it be after that.

I've even forgotten why I started a blog. It wasn't to report on concrete things, like a journal to inform what was happening; rather, it was to facilitate a return to a former, more poetic way of thinking.

I'm going to try harder to make this more of a conversation, and less of a report.

This blog will become a response to reality, a literal conversation with the actions and perceptions that fill every day.

So, here's to many glorious tomorrows, and the journeys they will take us on, and the words and thoughts they will lend to us.

Kate, 2009