Happy birthday to me. Many gifts! Much love, and much good work, over the last year.
Best material gift of the moment is the deeee-luxe housesitting / catsitting gig. Huge artists' loft in Brooklyn, where I get to work surrounded by two people's paintings-in-progress (and surrounded by trade magazines and self-promotion brochures and lists of galleries to contact... I know working artists' lives are full of admin work no matter their field, but it's still funny to see other people's admin-flotsam). I also get to remind myself how great it feels to make a cat roll around on the floor in pleasure.
Incredibly useful to be alone in a new place while I finish a piece as intense as Wild Illuminating. And now is a perfect time for mostly being a hermit, since the fall concert season doesn't really rev up until later in September anyway. (I did unhermit tonight for a very sweet birthday dinner with Alex.)
On my last birthday I was in Stockholm for the first time, and I wondered whether I could pull off "every future birthday in a place I've never been." Nope: I'm home in NYC today. But maybe I can pull it off bienially. :) Next birthday, I'm likely to be outside the U.S. at least....
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