1) identification

(today) Photographing exceptional pages of Carl Jung's The Red Book for reference.

2) creation

(last two days) Finished proofing copied journal pages, then crumpled and burned original pages, photographing both.  Tracked dream and various floating ideas.

2) creation, 4) housekeeping

(today) Quote from the boys written.  Website maintenance.  Trimming and modifying protective case for smartphone to remove filter screen, remove cross-brace, trim speaker edging, and create unified/larger opening from stock grouping of sound holes.  Finished rough scripting of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... chapter 13.

2) creation

(last two days) Tracked conversation with mom.  Reading transcribed journal pages from steno pad for accuracy.  Filming various student projects.

2) creation, 3) community

(last two days) Filming music video project with students.  Checking accuracy of transcribed steno pad section of journal.  Enjoying social media efforts, though primarily adjacent lines of communication.  Creating framing structure for teacher book.

2) creation, 3) community

(last few days) Finished transcribing steno notebook into journal proper. Tracked conversation with mom. Social media activity feeling mildly natural. Trade-in of old phone for new provides much higher quality built-in camera than I had been using.

2) creation, 3) community

(today) Part of Naquin's agreement to collaborate on new covers for ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... book and soundtrack was for me to begin utilizing social media. One account now established, though I suspect Naquin will insist I use it. Also continuing work on transcribing steno notebook.

2) creation

(last few days) Most of the steno pad notebook now transcribed.

1) identification, 2) creation

(last few days) Hours transcribing steno notebook in university class. Reading The Information; A History, A Theory, A Flood and Jung's The Red Book: Liber Novus.

1) identification, 2) creation, 3) community

(last few days)  Hours at the poolside, transcribing the steno pad journal. Communication with Naquin on covers for book and soundtrack for ... fence posts rotting in the acreage....  Hooked on television show Awake (2012).

3) community

(yesterday)  Drinks with Naquin and his lady - planning out the cover he will do for ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... book and cover for book soundtrack. Hours of fevered shop talk and orientations on current art efforts and passions. Naquin insists on requirements to his involvement - an actual printed version, revised website, social media, and payment. Agreed.

2) creation

(last two days) Another horrid university class begun tonight and after 15 minutes of eye contact I was able to work on copying an old journal into a new one, preserving a notebook format I happened into and would like to preserve. Three hours of copying, running four pens currently in use down to the last of their ink reserve. Will need to buy new ones soon. Continuing work on The Great Falling Away.

1) identification, 2) creation

(last few days) Significant progress on a relatively short section of The Great Falling Away, chapter 13. Nearing the end of the piece has become slow and dense but purposeful. Also reading The Information, A History, A Theory, A Flood, by James Gleick.

2) creation

(last few days) Resuming work on The Great Falling Away, having plotted out the end for years and now facing the climb down. Months of various treatments, notebook entries, and voice memos to work out the structure and overall placement in ...fence posts rotting in the acreage....

2) creation, 3) community

(last few weeks)  Contact with Naquin and setting plans for him to create new cover for ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... - creating shared on-line dropbox and selecting illustrations and photos as a reference pool. Some illustration work for children and copying old notebook.

2) creation

(last few days) Copying old journal into new, calling Naquin about possibility of him doing version of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage..., beginning a new illustration but stalling out.

2) creation

(last few days) Hours of work-focused writing. Illustration work and reading.

1) identification, 2) creation

(last few weeks) Hours of writing everyday, mostly at night to midnight, 1:00, or later. Work related efforts of communication, correspondence, public relations, efforts to maintain and generate extra income for family, and standard papers for school. Watching film, Beauty is Embarrassing (2012).  Some illustrative work for kids.

1) identification, 2) creation

(during the last week) Hours on work related websites, pleased to have daily efforts have immediate audience; frustration this artifact log charts the efforts but not the content. Thoughts to stop this or change it and post an actual piece each day, without reference/correlation to placement within ...fence posts rotting in the acreage.... Illustration work and reading, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, by James Gleick - I had started it once before but had not found momentum, now I have my own copy.

2) creation

(today) Writing the summary of the last chapter of The Great Falling Away, which will be a transitional piece between the rowing columns of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... and what comes next.