tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44191727248723633922024-03-13T07:34:23.838-05:00Karen Bjork KubinDreamerKaren Bjork Kubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06743510819118761559noreply@blogger.comBlogger902125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419172724872363392.post-42302611323875361872020-01-13T13:56:00.000-06:002020-01-13T13:56:50.243-06:00Make it New: Mending at Rock & Sling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy Not-Quite-So-New-Year, friends! So 2019 was quite a year, and I have spent very little time with this blog. I have instead been up to my neck with various and assorted Things, some fabulous, some not-so. One of the best things is that last fall I went back to school for a master's degree in English. Do I dare say I've resolved to post more here in 2020? For today, here is a <a href="https://rockandsling.com/2020/01/13/make-it-new-mending/" target="_blank">link</a> to my new post over at <a href="https://rockandsling.com/" target="_blank">Rock & Sling</a>: <a href="https://rockandsling.com/2020/01/13/make-it-new-mending/" target="_blank">Make it New: Mending</a>.<br />
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Yes, your teacher has super powers. They are hidden, and you the student hold the key.</div>
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I am thrilled to have <a href="https://suzukiassociation.org/news/0-your-teacher-is-undercover-superhero-you/" target="_blank">this article</a> included in the latest edition of the American Suzuki Journal, and they have seen fit to put it up on their website this week. It is a special message for students and their parents, and absolutely just as much for those outside the Suzuki world as for those within.</div>
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If you want, you can tag your favorite superhero teacher on the Suzuki Association of the Americas Facebook page, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/suzukiassn/photos/a.418675062102/10156945146542103/?type=3&theater" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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I am so grateful that <a href="https://rockandsling.com/" target="_blank">Rock & Sling</a> provided me the space to share some of my thoughts about faith, identity, and family in October. <a href="https://rockandsling.com/2018/10/29/rainbow-boy/" target="_blank">Rainbow Boy</a> has been up on their blog for a couple of weeks, and it is completely by accident that I haven't shared the link here. It took a long time to put into words, and it is still a highly imperfect thing, but I hope it will speak to others.Karen Bjork Kubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06743510819118761559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419172724872363392.post-16960210340791253802018-08-31T10:34:00.000-05:002018-08-31T10:34:44.989-05:00Artist Series at Rock & SlingThank you to Rock & Sling for the opportunity to share one of the books that is inspiring me right now. I haven't read <u><a href="http://katherinepaterson.com/books/the-wide-awake-princess/" target="_blank">The Wide-Awake Princess</a></u> to my kids in years, but it is still speaking to me. Now more than ever. You can read the whole blog post <a href="https://rockandsling.com/2018/08/29/artist-series-the-wide-awake-princess/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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It was a mini-vacation, tacked on to picking up Middle from camp and taking Oldest to freshman orientation (yes--we are <i>there, </i>and it feels both unreal and part of a natural progression and that is all my heart will let me say about it right now.) And our mini-vacation was a highly imperfect thing for many reasons, but now, a week out, the glowing moments stand out and the less-glowing will hopefully/probably join the canon of remember whens we can mostly laugh about now that they are at a safe distance. Now, a week out, the glowing moments are scattered generously through our trip, and our day in Cuyahoga Valley National Park shines especially bright.</div>
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It is right and good, that in a beautiful place set aside for wild and wonder and exploration one will find messages. Subtle, overt, intentional, imagined, serendipitous--there for the receiving. And for answering. We found the first four below. The last was Youngest's answer. May we remember it all.</div>
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Slowly, slowly, I am adding things to <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/BarkBreadDesigns" target="_blank">Bark Bread Designs</a>. And learning things, and reading things, and trying to catch some of the ideas that flicker in my head. If I can get them onto paper they stay longer, grow brighter. Some make it into the world, which I am glad for--the whole birthing process, and holding what I've made (poem, paper thing, mended thing) and sending it forth into the unknown--I love all of it. Other ideas--I have to remind myself to enjoy all those sparks flying around inside. All that light and warmth.</div>
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Maybe you don't know what you will come up with. Maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe the color is the thing, and the playing with it--layering and adding, covering and taking away. After a while the paper takes on its own life, and while you did not find the thing you were trying to create, you found something else and it was beautiful. Think of it as a collaboration between you and Chance. <i>I am open</i>, you tell God, you tell the universe, you tell the people you love. <i>We can work with this, too, without losing ourselves, without forgetting our dreams. It's just that the canvas is so much bigger than we had anticipated.</i></div>
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These days I have to think in terms of projects. While I work on one the others wait, patiently or otherwise. I finish things, but usually not within the time frame I had imagined. Some days this is frustrating, but other days I can totally bask in the warmth of knowing that I <i>do </i>finish things, contrary to how I saw myself when I was much younger, and not only that but I <i>like</i> the things I eventually put out into the world. Most days that is really a whole lot of warmth, and it is helping me to get more comfortable with the backlog of Things Waiting.</div>
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One recent project is this group of hand bound journals/sketchbooks/blank books. Pink is not a color I turn to very often, but back in February I was recovering from influenza and bronchitis, thinking about how nice spring would feel, and probably feeling the influence of Valentine's Day everywhere I turned. I wanted pink--glowing, tender, robust, healthy, promising pink in deep-breathing, loving shades. I also wanted to play with watercolors and so, slowly, these journals were born.</div>
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Somewhere towards the end of finishing one of these journals, I had the impression that I was creating a small world. And hopefully someone else will take this simple small world into their hands and feel the call to create their own world or worlds within it. That is my hope for these little blank books. I think our souls ache to create and birth and converse as much now as ever in our history.<br />
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This, too, is an encouragement when I start to get overwhelmed by all the Things Waiting. They will be finished because they are needed.</div>
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These three are available in my Etsy shop, <a href="http://etsy.com/shop/barkbreaddesigns" target="_blank">Bark Bread Designs</a>:</div>
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These two are available locally at an antique store, along with some other items I have made. (If you are interested in these, please message me.)</div>
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The <a href="http://www.whaleroadreview.com/issues/issue-10/" target="_blank">spring 2018 issue of Whale Road Review</a>, an online poetry and short prose journal, came out yesterday, and I have been slowly reading through it. Relishing it, more like. It is an honor to have my poem <a href="http://www.whaleroadreview.com/kubin-2/" target="_blank">"Cicada"</a> included among all this richness. I hope you will find the time to take a look.</div>
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My book, <u>Shift: a visual poem</u>, is now available in my Etsy shop. Equal parts prose poem and photographic series, this slim hybrid challenges the reader through vivid pictures and spare text to see the world around us both "as it is" and as something more--magical, transformed, full of possibility. You can find it <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/594563733/shift-a-visual-poem?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=shift%20a%20visual%20poem&ref=sr_gallery-1-1" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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It is an honor to have my piece, "Imprint," up on the Rock and Sling blog this week. It pulls together some things I have been mulling over for months (sparked by the baby mouse and its siblings pictured below) and I am so pleased to be able to finally have it out in the world. You can read it <a href="https://rockandsling.com/2018/02/07/imprint/" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Hours after moving our son into his dorm room at an arts boarding school a year and half ago, my husband and I sat down to one of the most delicious and memorable meals of my life. I was heartbroken and terrified--our boy was young and it felt way too early to have him away, despite the fact that he had initiated it and that after much soul-searching we were all convinced it was the right move for him. The dinner fixed nothing, but the sheer warm magnificence of it was something of a balm, the way light glitters off broken glass and reminds you that despite the shattering there is still beauty to witness. We ate wonderful things, including a pasta in squid ink sauce, which, despite a warning from our waitress, I ate without tucking a napkin into my shirt. I admit it, I fully believed I had learned to eat without dribbling. And I not only dribbled, I dropped a big piece of pasta right down the front of my shirt, and the black stain is never going to go away. I could not throw the shirt away, and I could not look at it for a long time, either, so I tucked it deep in my closet with all the other things I do not know how to deal with. Something in me remembers at times like this that I am a slow-simmerer. Finally the thought struck me that I could cover the stain even though I could not remove it, and I found tucked nearby one of the lovely vintage handkerchiefs I brought home from my grandmother's house after she died. And I sewed the two heartbreaks together, and it took a very long time, longer than I thought it should have, but look I have made a new beautiful thing and someday I will wear the people I love who I can no longer have close by. </div>
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So I spent much of 2017 making things. Writing and submitting, still, but also making the most lovely little tangibles I could manage. My visual poem <u><a href="http://www.blurb.com/b/8345688-shift" target="_blank">Shift</a></u> was the first project, but I have also been working on a number of paper creations: earrings, blank books, a few necklaces. And I finally have an <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/BarkBreadDesigns" target="_blank">Etsy shop</a>, Bark Bread Designs, open so I can share them with the world. Please <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/BarkBreadDesigns" target="_blank">visit</a>! I have more to list, more to learn, and a bunch of new ideas to try, so stay tuned. I'll keep you posted.</div>
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There is plenty to fear in this world, and more than enough horror to go around. Let this change you, yes, but don't let it stop you. Practice every day standing tall and being soft at the same time. The fear will be there whether you go forward or hide, so you might as well go forward: reach out and see and listen and reach out and see and listen. Tall and soft, tall and soft. Rest when you need to. Fight for what is right. And watch for what is beautiful. Let that change you, too. Let it carry you. Then carry it with you, to every damn dark place you can.</div>
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It's been pretty quiet here on the blog. Partly because life has been crazy and busy and full, and partly because I have been working on several longer-term projects. I put the first one out into the world today. <u>Shift</u> is an extension of the <a href="http://kbkubin.blogspot.com/search/label/Light" target="_blank">teleidoscope series</a> I did during the Advent season last year. The project was powerful for me, and I wanted to make it into something a person could hold in their hands, or place in someone else's hands, if they felt so inclined. And so, this. I liked the idea of print-on-demand for this particular project, because only as many of these as are wanted will go out into the world, and I do not have to get anyone else's permission to send them out. I would love it if you wanted to <a href="http://www.blurb.com/b/8345688-shift" target="_blank">buy one</a>. </div>
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And now that I'm thinking of summer, here's a small bit from a trip to my hometown in June:<br />
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I am so pleased to have my poem, "This is exactly" included in Main Street Rag's upcoming anthology, <u>Of Burgers and Barrooms</u>. I had the opportunity to peek through the proof, and it looks like a fascinating and varied collection. The projected release date for this collection of stories and poems is November 14, 2017, but you can preorder the book in advance for a discounted price of $10 <a href="https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/?product=of-burgers-barrooms" target="_blank">here</a>. </div>
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So I've been playing with paper for a long time. And long ago when I went off to college I thought I would have time to study both art and music seriously. When it became clear that I had to focus on one or the other, I told myself I would take art classes again someday, maybe after I got my big orchestra job. And life went differently than that. That's okay, though, because hovering on the side of my writing all this time has been this desire to extend words and thought more and more into a physical realm. This summer I took several classes at the <a href="http://www.mnbookarts.org/" target="_blank">Minnesota Center for Book Arts</a> and my head and heart are bursting. (It's a magical place, and I can't wait to go back again.) The pictures above are things I made in class--now I'm trying to find time for skill-building, and practice, and ways to bring some of the ideas in my head to life. I have so much to learn, and I'm so excited.</div>
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I am honored to have had two pieces published recently: an article in the <a href="https://suzukiassociation.org/news/journal/45.3/" target="_blank">American Suzuki Journal</a>, and a poem in <a href="http://www.whitworth.edu/Academic/Department/English/RockSlingStore/" target="_blank">Rock & Sling</a> (Issue 12.1.) </div>
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It was a special treat to see my article in the ASJ featured on the mailing label that came with the journal--I am rather proud of that. The article, "Walk the Hills, Crawl if Necessary" was something I worked on for months this past year. The basic point was that as parents we run into times when we have to loosen our grip on our expectations, that sometimes what looks like stagnation is still a moving-forward, just maybe hidden, or very slow. It ended up being very, very close to home, and depending on the day (week/month) it was sometimes nearly impossible to write about.</div>
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The poem in Rock & Sling was also difficult to write. <i>"The Beatitudes" by Vladimir Martynov, Rescored for Kronos Quartet</i> was a piece I nearly gave up on. It began as an assignment at a poetry workshop I attended in 2015, the last assignment at the end of an incredibly full, intense week. I hated what I had written so much I decided not to turn it in. In the end I could not leave it alone, either, but it took many months to shift into its current form.</div>
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I have been working on several projects while away from this blog. Day-to-day what I see around me is Mess, but over the course of time I can see that I am making progress. In time I hope to share about those here. In the meantime you can find me a little more frequently on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/karenbjorkkubin/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>.</div>
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It is an honor to be a guest contributor on <a href="https://rockandsling.com/2017/04/06/make-it-new-see-it-new/" target="_blank">the Rock & Sling blog</a> today. And it was good to re-read my own words. I know I am not the only one who carries the weight of current events, personal struggles (those of my loved ones as well as my own,) and what amounts to a daily battle with chaos around on her shoulders. It is only natural that we get tired. <a href="http://kbkubin.blogspot.com/2016/12/i-have-been-playing-with-teleidoscope.html" target="_blank">Playing with a teleidoscope</a> last December felt like escapism at first, a place for my soul to rest during a busy time. But it became something more, reminding me that transformation is a powerful powerful thing. You can read about it <a href="https://rockandsling.com/2017/04/06/make-it-new-see-it-new/" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The current issue of <a href="http://www.whitworth.edu/Academic/Department/English/RockSlingStore/" target="_blank">Rock & Sling</a> is now for sale on their website. It is an honor to have my poem, "Elision," included in it. "Elision" is a spring poem, about a chamber music concert I played in a few years ago. There were birds nesting up in the ceiling above the stage, and those of us waiting backstage could hear them singing their hearts out while our colleagues played onstage. The sound was magical and is something I carry with me still, but what also lingers is the momentary dissolving of walls. It is not often that I have felt like such an active participant in the ushering-in of spring. If you are interested, you may buy a copy <a href="http://www.whitworth.edu/academic/department/english/rockslingstore/current-issue" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had the briefest moment earlier this week, waiting in the car for Youngest to come out from a lesson (<i>You don't have to come in anymore, Mom, it's okay</i>) when the walls dissolved again, rain and trees and windshield melting into something new and beautiful. I even had enough space in my phone to get a picture. Happy spring to you, friends. May you turn and catch the walls dissolving every once in a while.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Meanwhile life was hard. The winter was as cold as the last one had been, and food was even shorter. Once again all rations were reduced, except those of the pigs and the dogs. A too rigid equality in rations, Squealer explained, would have been contrary to the principles of Animalism. In any case he had no difficulty in proving to the other animals that they were not in reality short of food, whatever the appearances might be. For the time being, certainly, it had been found necessary to make a readjustment of rations (Squealer always spoke of it as a "readjustment," never as a "reduction"), but in comparison with the days of Jones, the improvement was enormous. Reading out the figures in a shrill, rapid voice, he proved to them in detail that they had more oats, more hay, more turnips than they had had in Jones's day, that they worked shorter hours, that their drinking water was of better quality, that they lived longer, that a larger proportion of their young ones survived infancy, and that they had more straw in their stalls and suffered less from fleas. The animals believed every word of it. Truth to tell, Jones and all he stood for had almost faded out of their memories. They knew that life nowadays was harsh and bare, that they were often hungry and often cold, and that they were usually working when they were not asleep. But doubtless it had been worse in the old days. They were glad to believe so. Besides, in those days they had been slaves and now they were free, and that made all the difference, as Squealer did not fail to point out.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I grew up watching the 1954 animated version of this at school. I've lost track of how many times I saw it, but the messages and images are pretty deeply-ingrained: the cruelty of Mr. Jones, the animal uprising, the Seven Commandments of Animalism. Napoleon's takeover. Good and faithful Boxer working himself nearly to death before being carted off to be made into glue. I always understood the movie as a warning about what had happened in the Soviet Union, but underneath that there was always what I now see as the core message: a warning about what we humans are tempted to do with power. What history has <i>shown</i> we do. That is what haunts me now about this book--that and how the truth flickers and shifts in the hands of some. How easily the others lose track, and go along with what is happening.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> This isn't just the story of a faraway place, locked into one point in time, it is something that happens over and over in our world. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">How simple it might be to just lose track, go along.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Of course it does. Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand."</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">More and more I find myself wondering what we are buying, and buying into. How normal it seems in this corner of the world to expect and demand comfort and ease. How natural it seems to be to allow oneself to behave and be treated as first and foremost a consumer. How often I hear people confusing education with job-training. Does it raise a fight in you, the way it does me?</span></div>
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