Week 5 totals:
Day 35 total - 2,340
Day 34 total - 9,046
Day 33 total - 0
Day 32 total - 2,000
Day 31 total - 15,400
Day 30 total - 10,500
Day 29 total - 28,000 lines
Wk 5 total: 67,286
43 Days performance total: 364,656 lines
(goal 430,000)
Widowsweave: Lines in the Sand total: 387,796 lines
(goal 3,000,000)
Wk 4 total: 30,110
Wk 3 total: 71,900
Wk 2 total: 85,810
Wk 1 total: 109,550
Previous Lines in the Sand: 23,140
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At first I was troubled by marking lines. It's the same way I mark absences in my classroom, and I didn't want my lines to be memorials of absence; so I consciously focused on presence. It wasn't until line 350 or so that I suddenly remembered that I had been a widow at one time in my young adulthood. I thought it was odd that I hadn't made that connection. I found it comforting to think about though. I thought about all the people who had helped me and all the ways I felt loved. My hope is that the war widows in Iraq have the same strong support structures surrounding them. This activity made me think deeply too about what 'art' is. I thought I had a pretty broad definition, but this quiet simple event touched me in such profound ways--more deeply than many single pieces of visual art that I've loved over the years.
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