The "Other Studio" Saturday

A Return To Unpacking

Photo by Ruddy Corporan on Unsplash

As much as I’d like to be out marching and chanting at one of the No Kings protests today, I’ve got some long-overdue home projects calling my name.

I have learned the hard way that my energy is limited and needs to be spent wisely. So today, I’m staying close to home and focusing on making my house more a home. And my office spaces more fun and functional too.

When my roommate invited me to share his home, his idea was that I would live in the main house and work out of the garage apartment. My idea was to make the garage apartment my home and home office and use the bonus bedroom in the main house as my “Other Studio.”

The “Other Studio” is where I plan to keep the things I love but don’t have space for in my main live-work space—art supplies, books, digital piano, extra clothes, and the bits and bobs of life. My new home is, like me, a work in progress, still figuring out what it wants to be when it grows up.

Today will be filled with unpacking boxes that have sat untouched for months, putting away piles of clean laundry I’ve been ignoring, and doing things I have told myself I’d “get to later” but haven’t.

Slowly but surely, I’m rebuilding my home and my life after years of uncertainty.

Each box I open seems to hold a little time capsule: old clothes from another version of me, receipts from forgotten projects, and notebooks scribbled with hopes I didn’t always follow through on.

There’s a strange comfort in finding new homes for my old stuff. Even through chaos and clutter, there’s continuity. I’m still here, still me, just a little older, hopefully a little wiser, and finally ready to make my spaces my own.

So I won’t be at the protests today, but I’ll still be doing my part, in my own way.

Sometimes, just taking care of your own corner of the world is its own kind of resistance. Especially when you do it with care, defiance, and hope.

Thank you for being a friend!
Clint 🌈✌️

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ON THIS DAY = OCTOBER 18

BIRTHDAYS

• 1914 = Rhoda Métraux = American anthropologist 🌈

• 1919 = Anita O’Day = American singer

• 1923 = Jessie Mae Hemphill = American singer-songwriter

• 1926 = Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter

• 1927 = George C. Scott = American actor and director

• 1935 = Peter Boyle = American actor

• 1938 = Dawn Wells = American model and actor

• 1939 = David Grainger Whitney = American curator and editor 🌈

• 1940 = Uzi Even = Israeli professor and politician 🌈

• 1945 = Huell Howser = American tv host and actor 🌈

• 1946 = Howard Shore = Canadian composer, conductor, and producer

• 1947 = Joe Morton = American actor

• 1950 = Wendy Wasserstein = American playwright and author

• 1951 = Pam Dawber = American actor and producer

• 1951 = Terry McMillan = American author and screenwriter

• 1952 = Chuck Lorre = American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1953 = Tim Gill = American programmer, philanthropist, and activist 🌈

• 1954 = Arliss Howard = American actor and filmmaker

• 1956 = Craig Bartlett = American animator, screenwriter, and voice actor

• 1957 = Jon Lindstrom = American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1956 = Martina Navratilova = American tennis player 🌈

• 1960 = Erin Moran = American actor

• 1960 = Jean-Claude Van Damme = Belgian martial artist, actor, and screenwriter

• 1961 = Wynton Marsalis = American trumpet player, composer, and educator

• 1962 = Vincent Spano = American actor, director, and producer

• 1973 = James Foley = American photographer and journalist

• 1979 = Ne-Yo = American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor

• 1984 = Esperanza Spalding = American singer-songwriter

• 1984 = Freida Pinto = Indian actor and model

• 1987 = Zac Efron = American actor and singer

• 1990 = Brittney Griner = American basketball player 🌈

• 1991 = Tyler Posey = American actor

• 1991 = Zohran Mamdani = American politician

• 1992 = Barry Keoghan = Irish actor

EVENTS

• 1851 = Herman Melville‘s Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.

• 1887 = Johannes Brahms conducted the premiere of his Double Concerto, composed for violinist Joseph Joachim and cellist Robert Hausmann.

• 1922 = The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded.

• 1946 = Aaron Copland‘s Symphony No. 3, often called the “Great American Symphony,” is first performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

• 1954 = The Regency TR-1, the first mass-produced transistor radio, is announced.

• 1961 = West Side Story is released in theaters.

• 1963 = Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat, becomes the first cat launched into space.

• 1988 = Roseanne premieres on ABC.

HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES

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• National Sweetest Day

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PORTRAIT + QUOTE OF THE DAY

ZAC EFRON = ARE YOU FEELING LUCKY (OR LICKY)?

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Zac Efron