A few of you wrote back after my last note — the one about the Video Vault — and told me that downloading gigabyte-sized files wasn’t going to work. Too much storage, too many videos you’d want to watch over time. I listened.
So I’ve changed course.
The vault is now on Vimeo — streaming, not downloads. I know that’s not what I said I’d do, and I want to be straight with you about why I said it in the first place: I’ve had platforms pull the rug before, and I didn’t want to make a promise I couldn’t keep again. Vimeo costs me $12 a month. If one person watches one video, it covers itself. That math I can live with.
There’s more in this week’s video below including a health update I’ve been sitting on for a bit. The short version is that I haven’t been able to do the long stretches of sitting work I love, and that enforced pause is what sent me back into the archive in the first place. Sometimes the thing you can’t do makes space for the thing you’ve been avoiding. :-)
The tokens in the header image are for the staff at Stanford Hospital this morning.
In other news: Mira turned 12 this week. I’m still not sure how and when this happened and how she’s towering above me already, but here we are.
Every bit a young lady now…
And on April 22nd, what started as a talk for 35 people became — somehow — a luncheon for up to 150. Each table will have a centerpiece of handmade tokens. The room is called the Grand Oak Room. I have not fully processed this. Ideas on how to make the talk go well? Suggestions on overcoming stage fright?
I’ll take them all.
This is how I am thinking of presenting the tokens and my “business card” — the attendees will be encouraged to take a token each, personalize it, and hand it to someone they don’t really know.
Also, I know many of you are having challenges right now … so, please use this as a way to check back in—reply here in comments or text me whenever you have a minute. I really would like to know how you’re doing.
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