2024: My Year in Review: "Despite everything, it's still you."

 January 2024, here we go...
             Above: Cider at Black Walnut Café (where Marz works)

Below: Karla trims Penny Cooper's hair. "I paid a dollar."

February: I resign from the Thrift Store after six years as BOOK's & Toys Lady (I'd started to volunteer Feb. 2018)

Sundays: coffee with bink

MARCH:
Below, left: Shortly before I turn SIXTY-THREE (63), I start work as a special-education assistant (SEA) with Autistic high school students.
Right: Student Joseph makes me a googly-eye card for my birthday, which is also Presidential Primary Election Day. (Results: President Joe Biden, who later drops out, vs. Trump.)

A day in the life...

April: Special-ed outing to bowling alley.
Right: Bookmark I made for student Dylan of Frisk, his favorite character in Undertale video game. The game ends with the line in a mirror: "Despite everything, it's still you."

 

BELOW: K sends a 2009 "Timehop" of me & fellow bloggers Joanna O'C and her  (all taking a selfie at once)

JUNE Below: Summer Solstice & black ash basketry with bink

August
Printmaking class at Highpoint (bottom row, right)

...with (left) Kate; printing The Moth Burial:

BELOW: Emmler pastes up my print, How are you anyway?

Marz moves (in her new car) to Duluth to attend UM-D.

I return to high school for ONE DAY, then quit: I feel like a prison guard.

SEPTEMBER
Visiting Marz, Lake Superior at Two Harbors:

BELOW, left: Page from student JF's notebook
Right: my lino of Pegasus jumping Duluth Lift Bridge


My trio of 'Childhood Tech' prints:

"Faith Hope Love Thrift" print, based on my workplace's boarded-up windows (right), 2020, after police murdered George Floyd

 Penny Cooper is lost in Duluth! But a kind stranger sets her up on a light pole by Speedway Gas Station

October: 
I am rehired at the thrift store (yay!).
L to R: Manageress, me, Jester, Amina,
              Big Boss, E.D., Doc, me

Toys Recreate "The Jolly Flatboatmen", Henry Caleb Bingham (1846):

WaPo humorist endorses Kamala Harris after paper pulls endorsement for US president:

November: but DT wins the election.
bink's Facebook post the morning after:

Unrelated. Books in the Murderbot series by Martha Wells that I've re-covered:

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DECEMBER

Below: Winter Solstice; Magi on the way

Me, Annette, & Maura decorate the girlettes' tree:

Christmas Eve Day: Toys Re-create Bruegel's "Hunters in the Snow" (1565):

. . . On we go!