Christine Lukasik

Happy Birthday Mom

 

Happy Birthday Mom! and lookit this super foxy ID photo! Rawr! I'm so grateful for the nice memories of your birthday last year even though you were in so much pain. I have the fuzzy blanket I brought you. I love you. 

design

My two current fave design ideas - fireplace mantles as headboards and crochet lamps both nicked from Elle magazine photo of Eliza Sherman, NYC antiques dealer bedroom. Awesome.    

Investing

Invest in yourself. Guaranteed unlimited return, zero risk. All upside.

Morning walk

Morning walk
Originally uploaded by Chris Lukasik

Oh you know just in the national park outside our door.
#howdidwegetsolucky #ohrightweearnedthis

Music Fest Setup

Music Fest Setup
Originally uploaded by Chris Lukasik

Rollin' out the red carpet for the Joshua Tree Roots Music Fest!

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Originally uploaded by Chris Lukasik

Wonder valley

@ Glass Outhouse Gallery. Cleverly placed along the ridge of a former gunsmith sight-testing bowl Trent's installation of these hundreds (?) of colored bottles are pretty in just average light - but come sunset you'll position & reposition yourself, find yourself scaling the slippery sandy walls of the pit trying to get just one more view of the sunset dazzling through these simple yet magical magnifying bottles. Addictive!

day bursts into life

semi conflicted to not be at home for this sunrise. maybe it would have been hidden behind rocks or I was meant to catch it in rear view and pull over.

Celebrating Helios

Living in a place where I get to see the sun rise and set each day –  feels so incredibly right and like something that's been missing all my life only I had no idea it was missing. I find that I awaken naturally before the dawn (like between 4:30-5 - yowza!), work hard during the early hours and that my pace slows as the heat rises. Like now it's noon and I'm feeling like it's about 5pm :-/ My daily cadence has seemed to groove to the clock of the planet upon arrival and feels so right.  Plus- seeing each day begin  - rather than waking up to an alarm or whatever – it's such a different sense of appreciating the beginning – passing and closing of each day. I'm sure the same will come of the nights as well – the stars are redonk.   

Living elsewhere – Seattle, New York City, Atlanta – even Ohio – I had real concrete sense or  idea that this rhythm was missing…

What else has been missing? What is still missing? 

New beginnings

New beginnings
Originally uploaded by Chris Lukasik

Sunrise from new home. *gasp* this will work. Coyotes howling their
last cries of the night - the dogs and the human growing into the
lives we're born to live.
And we are fine.