A (Year) in The Life 2009.

My annual, So What the Hell Did I Do?

Travels:
Dryfork, WV
Columbus, GA
Minneapolis, MN
Charlottesville, VA
Phoenix, AZ
Rehoboth, DE
Cleveland, OH
Salisbury, MD

ROADTRIP!
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
Virginia


Other:
I moved back to Arlington!

Concerts:
Rebirth Brass Band
The Horrors
Andalusian Dog

Photography:
Attended LOOK3 in June
Took more photos than really ever before

Shows:
First on 1st Art + Music Walk (August 1-30, 2009)
Artomatic (June 6-July 20, 2009)
Critical Mass (May 15, 2009)

Writing:
I left my Moleskine with about 40 pages of prompts and notes somewhere along our route home from Arizona. Sometimes, I still reach for it.
Started <100 this summer. Haven't updated in a while, but I have stories. So many stories.

Friends:
New faces this year. Many I'd like to see stick around for a while.

Family:
Mom and Dad are semi-officially empty-nesters.

Work:
Yes, another new job started in August. But this time, I like it.

Grand.

Just some Kodachrome taken at the Grand Canyon this summer:

Today.

Today.
Originally uploaded by katyray.

Alive.

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Originally uploaded by akkleis.

Yes, still. I will update soon. Someday.

At the fair, people can fly.

At the fair, people can fly.
Originally uploaded by katyray.

Home.

Time to catch up with life.

Something new.

I take up my own pen again—the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself—today—I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I will do the work of my life. And I will.

Henry James
January, 1895

I started a new writing project. I will still update Kate Space occasionally with events and goings on, but I'm currently trying to focus more on my creative outlets. Please visit <100, for all your short story needs.

'Tis the Season.

Tonight is Critical Mass, a one-night exhibit and dance party hosted by DCist Heather Goss's Ten Miles Square and Civilian Art Projects . See work from over 20 area artists and then dance the night away with DJs KC and Nite Krawler. 9 p.m. $5.

Featured artists: Tim Tate, Michael Janis, Cory Oberndorfer, Billy Colbert, Erwin Timmers, Kristina Bilonick, Sean Hennessey, Rania Hassan, John Ulaszek, Kyle Gustafson, Brian Knight, Cesar Lujan, Pat Padua, Angela Kleis, Kerrin Kastorf, Drew McDermott, Jack Whitsitt, Paivi Solonen, Lynne Venart, Kelly Rand, Davin Tarr, and Katy Ray.

Civilian Art Projects
406 7th Street NW
9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Two Weeks Away...Artomatic 2009!

Prepare to celebrate Artomatic's 10th anniversary: The trademark,one-of-a-kind multimedia arts event will be at Half Street's 55 M Street, S.E., in Washington, D.C.'s Capitol Riverfront neighborhood. I'll be showing work with a group of very talented Ten Mile Square photographers.

May 29 through July 5
Half Street's 55 M Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C.
Artomatic is always free.

The Way Ahead.

MSY, 2008. (c) Katy Ray

Looking out and into the upcoming months, I found something strangely missing: I am still here. Granted, missing may not be the proper word to use, but in the usual "does-not-make-sense Katy-Ray way," it's perfectly logical.

I travel because I get claustrophobic; I become attached to a place for too long and I need to get out, away, detached. Yes, so far in 2009 I've been to both Georgia and Minnesota, but, I need more.

Where to go? What to do?

Flower Parts.

it's the little things

fresh lavender
waking up early
laughing loudly
playing scrabble
walking to the metro
the sunday paper
singing along
plain cheerios
walking though a creek bed
eye contact
the last page of a good book
standing on top of a mountain
the golden hour
sleeping with the windows open
seattle
that first morning together
coffee in a real mug
taking a good photograph
compliments
milk
the last three miles of a ride
the wind
the taconic state parkway
stone bridges
getting lost

I posted this to my old LJ blog on September 13, 2007. Nothing has changed.

Goings On.

Danny graduated Basic Training down at Ft. Benning in Columbus, Georgia on January 30th.


And this past weekend I was in Minneapolis visiting friends and having fun in the snow!

A (Year) in the Life 2008.

2008 abbreviated recap. And my 300th blogpost.

Travels:
New Orleans, LA (February and September)
St. Petersburg, FL (April, September, and December)
Cape Charles, VA
St. Georges Island, MD
Lexington, VA
Stuttgart, Germany

Concerts:
The Hives
Loretta Lynn
Oasis

Photography
Two things:
Ten Miles Square
FotoweekDC

Work
New job started in October. Again. Whoa.