or the first post of 2008. I'm inclined to suspect the latter. Two images accompany these words, and as this is an election year we're probably going to wind up feeling a whole like that tree in "Itch."

Only January and already we're in the throes of Spring Cleaning - years of accumulated stuff is being shuffled into different piles, some to stay, others to be passed on to other hands or otherwise discarded, and about time. I'm not so sure about Feng Shui and the circulation of Chi, but I find that when I can freely circulate through my spaces I not only feel generally better but I tend to do more or maybe even better artstuff.