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interviewed me last summer about Te Moana Meridian for Concerge 45. You can read our conversation “SAM HAMILTON EXORCIZES THE COLONIAL SPECTERS OF A GLOBAL MONUMENT AND TURNS IT OCEANIC” as a PDF link in my bio. # # # thanks for the convo Vo! Love you!!! # # #

Its been quite a year. Good and bad. This little end of year card from the one and only Mack Mcfarland - filled with the most loveliest of messages from his Lewis & Clark College Contenporary Art Theory and Practice class students (who put up with me “guest lecturing” them for an hour or so recently) - is definitely a very delightful spot of warm fuzzies to close it out with. Thanks Mack😘, thanks Macks students! 🥳

Some more random Waimana / Te Moana Meridian libretto workshop moments including the best p**i’s (kinda clam) ive ever eaten that Mere, Holland, and I picked out of the harbour, Holland performing for the marae whānau, lots and lots of walking in slow circles, chilly morning meetings over hot water and lemon, blankets of deep and velvety nighttime darkness, cute creatures, and and yeah, beautiful rainbows.

Less than a year ago, this spot on earth was nothing but lifeless concrete beneath a crusty old garage. Today i got to lay down and nap (see indentation) for the first time in what is now a verdant, and existentially vibrant bed of native clovers, grasses, yarrow and other little meadow babies - respendant in bugs, birds and other expressions of life. Its an example of ecological (and human) restoration thats absurdly minuscule from a global vantage, but none the less, it buoys me with hope that another future IS possible.