Incredibly, miraculously, the sunlight's back up here in a prominent way, and it does wonders to pull folks forward into new times and spaces. Again, it's that space--the actual, physical expanse, mmmhmm, but even more, the personal concepts of it and the awareness it creates--that predominates, in our experience, and our interactions, and our understanding of where we're at and the opportunities we're provided.

We're divorced here, in a very clear way, from much of the physical condition and circumstance that formed us. But awareness of those tangible and internal systems of influence and craft--those root systems and planing tools--is emphasized equally by our continual and exaggerated reliance upon their  impulsive and measured effects. We're driven by our craft and creativity and the need to place impact on the space we have, with the assumption that this space, the internal stuff and the external stuff, will offer along with our imprint its coded but apparent origins. Like outside, it's a question, of course, whether the space inside is under our control at all, but having lots of it to explore and wonder about doesn't hurt, and is also, for us, pretty productive and rewarding.