GOOD BONFIRE: Writing on creativity and contemplative practice by artist Hannah Burr

GIFT OF $22 ON ESPECIALLY NOW!

1/26/2022

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I am taking a moment out of the deeper posts here, on subjects ranging from Death to No BS approaches to meditation, to a survey and narrative history of objects in my studio, to share with you that there are a few copies remaining of the calendar Especially Now - a year in 12 artworks by Hannah Burr (that's me!) AND that it is A GENEROUS SALE ON REMAINING COPIES while there are a few left! The remaining copies 4 or 5? Are $22 off, with adjusted postage to reflect the normal cost, post holiday.*

So for 2022, keep your $22, and get one of these limited edition calendars for only $33 as a gift for your new year self: color, form and inspiration changing every month plus an ever-ready answer to the question 'what day is it again?' while you're quarantining from a covid scare or just emerging into the strange light of another new year.
Also, congratulate yourself for biding your time, keeping a careful eye on your budget, or plain forgetting to order your copies until now! It is your lucky day.
To snag your copies, go to hannahburr.bigcartel.com and put the discount code NEWYEARNOW in at check out. 

While you're there at the shop, you may notice a couple of other exciting developments which I will be announcing shortly as well!

*the USPS raised their holiday rates quite a bit this year and so for the holiday, rates needing bumping in the shop as well. They are now back to "normal". 

Enjoy and happy new year. Especially now.

PS. I give 10% of my gross profits to charities through Effective Altruism, excellent organizations like WakeUp! and one tree is planted for every individual product I sell through a $1 contribution to EdenReforestation (Thank you Leila Simon Hayes for this excellent idea!)


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THE AWKWARD

1/18/2022

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This is an awkward creative beginning. In a sense all creative beginnings are awkward.
​I want to put in a plug for the awkward - especially as it relates to our relationships. Awkwardness gets a bad rap in our modern culture of the smooth and the glib, but to me it's a refreshing kind of honesty. What is awkward?
  • Children starting kindergarten, not knowing how to interact with each other.
  • When someone begins to cry in front of you, sometimes.
  • When there is a long silence and it's uncomfortable. 
  • A first kiss, when its not in the movies, and when its honest.
  • An apology. 
  • A difficult conversation.
  • Being a tween.
  • Being a middleschooler.
  • Being a teenager.
  • Being a baby and not knowing how to use your body or that you even have one.
  • Being a young adult.
  • Being at all.
  • Being sick. 
  • Being fired.
  • Getting old.
  • Getting examined at the doctor, and the dentist.
  • Talking about money.
  • Setting a boundary.
  • Saying no.
  • Sitting with someone who is grieving.
  • Sitting with someone who is dying.
  • When conversation dies down.
  • When no one laughs at your joke
  • When no one laughs at someone else's joke. 
  • When you don't know what to do.
  • When you forget who you are. 
  • When you remember what you forgot. 
  • When you have to ask for help.
  • Getting to know a new friend, sometimes. 
  • Being in and talking about a conflict of any kind.
  • Not understanding how something works, and having to ask again. 
  • Silences when no one has an answer.

Please share your versions of awkward below. 

Even the word itself is an awkward spelling. What other word has to Ws flanking a K? 

The most awkward moments in my life are the moments when I was being honest. When I didn't look good, but was being true. 

What has been awkward lately in your life? Can you see the humanness in it? What do you love that is awkward? Or what do you not love? 
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