Date
JANUARY
Tuesday,
January 1
Weds, Jan 2Sun Jan 6
Monday,
January 7
Tuesday,
January 8
Wednesday,
January 9
Time
Thursday,
January 10
Friday,
January 11
Saturday,
January 12
Sunday,
January 13
Monday,
January 14
Tuesday,
January 15
Wednesday,
January 16
Thursday,
January 17
10am-8pm
Friday,
January 18
9am-2pm
Saturday,
January 19
Sunday,
January 20
Activity
Reading/Listening
6am-12noon Web maintenance, bookkeeping, and planning
Quiet
1pm-10pm
---Worked on exhibit display set-up, sea chest research and design, ---manuscript storage design, correspondence with science advisors
1pm-10pm
Dedication and frontispiece designs
Moving Naturalism Forward videos, Day 1
7am-11am
Took inventory of supplies, organized studio space, prepared
paper for penning frontispiece
Color studies for frontispiece background and trompe l’oeil
frames for frontispiece and title page, idea for transition page,
ordered brushes and paper
Cloud studies for frontispiece; shipped painted sample to
embosser for testing; correspondence w/ science advisors
correspondence with science advisors
Color studies for frontispiece
Color studies for frontispiece, title page drawings
Calligraphy practice
Title Page design and line drawings, updated overall book layout
and page count
Calligraphy practice, finished G. speciosus painting, worked on
C. tricolor tricolor painting, reading/research
Frontispiece color study
Calligraphy practice, reading/research
Calligraphy practice, reading/research
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Calligraphy practice; frontispiece
Title page, purchased large watercolor brush and calligraphy pen
nibs
Planned strategy for the next two weeks, refined line drawings
for title page
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No Studio Time
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No Studio Time
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7am-11pm
8am-8pm
8am-8pm
9pm-2am
8am-8pm
8am-8pm
9am-2pm
8pm-11pm
4pm-9pm
12pm-6pm
7pm-10pm
Moving Naturalism Forward videos, Day 2
Moving Naturalism Forward videos, Day 3
Quiet
Desperate Romantics, BBC Part 1-2
First Life with David Attenborough
Desperate Romantics, BBC Part 3-6
Dawkins and Mehdi Hasan at the Oxford Union
Steve Jones, Almost Like a Whale
Steve Jones, Almost Like a Whale
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Date
JANUARY
Monday,
January 21
Tuesday,
January 22
Wednesday,
January 23
Time
Activity
8am-11am
Thursday,
January 24
9am-12pm
1pm-2pm
Calligraphy practice, finalized frontispiece design
Penned first 80 species in tree of life design for frontispiece
Calligraphy for frontispiece—added about 50 species names
Calligraphy for frontispiece—added about 50 more species
Finished tree of life calligraphy, set up appt. for photography
Cleaned up title page line drawings; second round of color
studies for frontispiece background
Painted frontispiece background and frame
Research for title page
Finalized title page design, prepared paper for painting
Friday,
January 25
Saturday,
January 26
Sunday,
January 27
2pm-1am
Painted frontispiece background
12pm -8pm
8pm-1am
2pm-1am
Painted frontispiece background
Title page design, calligraphy practice, frontis background
Finished frontispiece frame and background
Monday,
January 28
Tuesday,
January 29
Wednesday,
January 30
Thursday,
January 31
9am-3pm
4pm-6pm
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Touched-up frontispiece, added gold border
Met with embosser, took two pieces for digital scanning
No Studio Time
2pm-2am
Prepared digital file for frontispiece stamp, correspondence with
embosser and photographers
Corresponded with embosser and photographers, applied
masking and gold ground to areas of title page, miniature books,
and C. resplendens, made 9 slipcases; calligraphy practice
9am-1pm
8pm-12am
10am-1pm
2pm- 1am
11am-11pm
Reading/Listening
Quiet
Rain
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23*3+1&43,$'.($0&1,#&'$%&'563,%-"#.)/0#012%34".5%
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Rain
Rain
Chopin Nocturnes, Maurizio Pollini; Bach Cello
Suites, Jean-Guihen Queyras; Simon Schama, The
Beast in Contemporary Art; Paul Goldman, Art of
Illustration: Millais, the Pre-Raphaelites and the
Idyllic School
A Passion for the Pre-Raphaelites, Andrew Lloyd
Webber
---Theodore W. Pietsch, Trees of Life: A Visual History
of Evolution, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2012
The Revisionaries (PBS), various science videos
Date
February
Friday,
February 1
Saturday,
February 2
Sunday,
February 3
Monday,
February 4
Tuesday,
February 5
Wednesday,
February 6
Thursday,
February 7
Friday,
February 8
Saturday,
February 9
Sunday,
February 10
Monday,
February 11
Tuesday,
February 12
Wednesday,
February 13
Thursday,
February 14
Fri, Feb 15Sun Feb 17
Monday,
February 18
Tuesday,
February 19
Time
Activity
Reading/Listening
12pm-2pm
5pm-6pm
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First washes on title page; repaired smudges on frontispiece
Took frontispiece to be photographed, discussed printing options
No Studio Time
Quiet
6pm-2am
Worked on prospectus and catalog
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Title Page
Streaming classical piano
Title Page
Streaming classical piano
Title Page
Streaming classical piano
Title Page
Streaming classical piano
Foil stamping on frontispiece
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Drove to Berkeley, CA
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Codex International Book Fair exhibit
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Codex International Book Fair exhibit
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Codex International Book Fair exhibit
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Codex International Book Fair exhibit
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Traveled home/Fun research visit to see “Beautiful Science”
exhibit at the Huntington Library
No Studio Time
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Packed and shipped artwork; correspondence
Errands and correspondence
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Date
FEBRUARY
Wednesday,
February 20
Thursday,
February 21
Friday,
February 22
Saturday,
February 23
Sunday,
February 24
Time
Activity
10am-1pm
2pm- 1am
9am-12pm
Researched papers for prints, correspondence with collectors
1pm-3pm
Correspondence with collectors; Packing and labeling shipments
12pm -8pm
6pm-12am
10am-2pm
4pm-6pm
6pm-11pm
Recalled first set of frontispiece prints; paper research
Six-month planning, grant and travel research, correspondence
Monday,
February 25
Tuesday,
February 26
Wednesday,
February 27
Thursday,
February 28
9am-3pm
4pm-6pm
9am-12pm
Reading/Listening
Grant research; Book design
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Erasmus Darwin biography amd poems
Photographed butterflies at outdoor exhibit
Finished G. speciosus painting and prepared to ship; researched
photosynthesis
Shipped beetle painting, corresponded with collectors, workshop
and conference research
Researched snowflakes
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Packed and shipped prints and cards
Correspondence, website maintenance, and bookkeeping
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2pm-2am
9am-11am
7pm-11pm
Date
MARCH
Friday,
March 1
Saturday,
March 2
Sunday,
March 3
Monday,
March 4
Time
Activity
Reading/Listening
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No Studio Time
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No Studio Time
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Corresponded with collectors
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9am-10pm
Explored illustration ideas, worked on contracts, shipped cards,
framed and shipped beetle print, research on forms of ice,
Bentley’s snowflake photography, X. morgani and A.
sesquipedale images and video, research on Gould and
Lewontin, bookkeeping
Researched shipping methods for large prints, correspondence
with lawyer on contracts, ordered office supplies, researched
Venetian architecture and Byzantine mosaics
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Tuesday,
March 5
Wednesday,
March 6
Thursday,
March 7
Friday,
March 8
Saturday,
March 9
Sunday,
March 10
Monday,
March 11
Tuesday,
March 12
Wednesday,
March 13
Thursday,
March 14
Friday,
March 15
Sketches and ideas for WEIT book for MSF auction and
snowflake classification
No Studio Time
Color studies for WEIT book
Research on hawk moths, WEIT illustrations
No Studio Time
No Studio Time
8am-12pm
1pm-
Correspondence with lawyer and collectors, research
Line drawing for A. sesquipedale, WEIT illustration
J. Hayman, Darwinian Dyspepsia, a More Definitive
Diagnosis, and response by F. Shanahan, The
American Journal of GASTROENTEROLOGY
Date
MARCH
Time
Activity
Reading/Listening
Saturday,
March 16
Sunday,
March 17
Monday,
March 18
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No Studio Time
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No Studio Time
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9am-12pm
1pm-9pm
Quiet
Tuesday,
March 19
Wednesday,
March 20
Thursday,
March 21
Friday,
March 22
Saturday,
March 23
9am-2pm
Calligraphy practice; Research and testing on papers for prints;
Correspondence with B& re: printing logistics; worked on WEIT
illuminations
Finished WEIT book illuminations for MSF auction;
correspondence with science advisors
Correspondence with collectors and press; bookkeeping, cleaned
and organized space for gilding
Correspondence with collectors; Started gilding on KS title
pages
Ordered art materials, worked on Title Pages
Origin Ch. 14
Downton Abbey Season 1
Sunday,
March 24
Monday,
March 25
Tuesday,
March 26
Wednesday,
March 27
Thursday,
March 28
Friday,
March 29
Saturday,
March 30
Sunday,
March 31
11am-4pm
Purchased framing supplies, started image design for Ch 14,
ordered paper for FP and TP prints, gilded C. resplendens
painting and miniature prints, refined orchid and moth drawing
Worked on image design idea for Ch 14; Title Pages
Downton Abbey Season 2
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Finalized paper order with B& for FP and TP prints, painted
Darwin’s orchid and moth, continued gilding C. resplendens
No Studio Time
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No Studio Time
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8am-8pm
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Researched and ordered shipping supplies for large prints;
worked on Title Pages; details on orchid/moth painting
No Studio Time
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No Studio Time
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No Studio Time
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9am-9pm
9am-11pm
9am-3pm
10am-2pm
3pm-9pm
Various C. Hitchens talks and debates
Steven Pinker and Adam Gopnik, Darwin Debate
Quiet
Quiet
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Date
APRIL
Monday,
April 1
Tuesday,
April 2
Time
Activity
Reading/Listening
10am-4pm
6pm-9pm
8am-10am
4pm-5pm
Picked up framing supplies, researched exhibition opportunity,
packed cards and beetle print
Cleaned up C. Resplendens, bookkeeping, shipped cards and
beetle print, dropped off paintings for photographing, picked up
frontispiece prints, correspondence
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Wednesday,
April 3
Thursday,
April 4
4am-6am
9am-9pm
7am-12pm
1pm-11pm
Friday,
April 5
8am-12pm
5pm-1am
Saturday,
April 6
Sunday,
April 7
Monday,
April 8
Tuesday,
April 9
Wednesday,
April 10
Thursday,
April 11
8am-12pm
1pm-11pm
9am-12pm
1pm-1am
5pm-1am
Labeled and shipped package, web maintenance, bookkeeping
Finalized dies for title page prints, beetle inventory
Painted details on C. tricolor tricolor, sketches for C. wallacei
and C. atlas, H. fossor; Redrew line drawings for pherosophus
and C. auratus; correspondence
Photo permission requests, correspondence, course design
Title Page paintings—backgrounds; transferred line drawings &
color studies for C. auratus, Pherosophus sp.
Organized/cleaned studio space; Correspondence; Research
Title page paintings; beetle sketchbook
Title page paintings
Friday,
April 12
Saturday,
April 13
Sunday,
April 14
Monday,
April 15
New D. Dennett interview; Natalie Angier, “Nature’s
Drone: Pretty and Deadly,” NYT; Skimmed Y.I.
Fishman and M. Boudry, “Does Science Presuppose
Naturalism (or Anything at all?)”
R. Dawkins interview
PBS NOVA “Ancient Computer”
Evolution of the Insects, D. Grimaldi and M. Engel
Title page paintings, correspondence
John O. Reiss, Not by Design: Retiring Darwin’s
Watchmaker; ASU Origins Project: Storytelling video
The Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare
(unabridged audio)
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (unabridged audio)
8am-2pm
Title page paintings, correspondence
Tolstoy, War and Peace (Unabridged) Ch 1-8
5pm-10pm
Correspondence, bookkeeping, cleaning
8am-12pm
1pm-3pm
12am-1am
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Trimmed eight and embellished two frontispiece prints
Research
Letter writing
No studio time
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (unabridged
audio); Stephen Jay Gould, “!"#$#%&'()*+,)(#)
-"+-&$#%./)!"#$%"&'()*#+%,)012)345(678)09:90;)0<<=;)
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No studio time
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No studio Time
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11am-3pm
7pm-11pm
Bookkeeping
Title pages/letters
Quiet
Date
APRIL
Tuesday,
April 16
Wednesday,
April 17
Thursday,
April 18
Friday,
April 19
Saturday,
April 20
Sunday,
April 21
Monday,
April 22
Tuesday,
April 23
Wednesday,
April 24
Thursday,
April 25
Friday,
April 26
Saturday,
April 27
Sunday,
April 28
Monday,
April 29
Tuesday,
April 30
Time
Activity
Reading/Listening
8pm-10pm
11am-4pm
5pm-11pm
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Calligraphy practice
Title pages; Calligraphy practice; Letters
Calligraphy practice; Letters
Correspondence; calligraphy practice
ASU Origins Project: Storytelling video
BBC History of Art in 3 Colors: Gold, Blue
Tolstoy, War and Peace (Unabridged audio) Ch 9-25
Quiet
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No Studio Time
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No Studio Time
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9am-11pm
Title Pages; beetle research
Quiet
2pm-11pm
Title Pages; beetle paintings/research
Quiet
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No Studio Time
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9am-11pm
Title page paintings; background for prints
10am-2pm
3pm-3am
2pm-3pm
Finished title page background for prints, spot-checked
Amarygmus sp., L. vulpina, and C. tricolor tricolor
Delivered title page background for photographing and printing
Infinite Monkey Cage broadcasts
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No Studio Time
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No Studio Time
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10am-2pm
Travel arrangements, cleaning and organizing
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9am-11am
1pm-2pm
Embossed frontispiece and title page prints at Roswell
Bookbinding
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Date
APRIL
Wednesday,
May 1
Thursday,
May 2
Friday,
May 3
Sat, May 4Sun, May 5
Time
Activity
Reading/Listening
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Travel preparations; packed art and painting materials
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Travel Day—to Albequerque, NM
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Travel Day-- to Norman, OK
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Monday,
May 6
Tuesday,
May 7
Wednesday,
May 8
Thursday,
May 9
Fri-Sun
May 10-12
Monday,
May 13
Tues, May 14Weds, May 15
Thursday,
May 16
Friday,
May 17
Saturday,
May 18
Sunday,
May 19
Monday,
May 20
May 21-31
2pm-10pm
Viewed art exhibit at National Weather Center; Toured National
Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum; Viewed Prix de West
collections; Studied Wilson Hurley’s triptychs
Inspected, cleaned, and packaged art to be hand-delivered—4
beetle paintings, framed Grandeur original, and Frontis print
Met with founding donor to deliver artwork; Visited Fred Jones
Jr. Museum of Art
Cloud-watching/Storm-chasing/Travel Day from Norman, OK
through Texas panhandle
Cloud-watching/Storm-chasing/Travel Day from New Mexico to
Northern Arizona
No Studio Time
Picked up Title Page prints from Roswell Bookbinding, reorganized space and supplies after trip; correspondence
No Studio Time
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Origin Ch. 6; various butterfly books
8am-6pm
Refined Pherosophus drawing, studied differences in colors of
living and dried specimens; added sketches to sketchbook
Read, outlined, and sketched ideas for Ch. 6; Embellished prints
of frontispiece
Worked on frontispiece prints and title page paintings
3pm-8pm
Frontispieces—finished, signed, packed, and ready to ship
12pm-5pm
Shipped frontispiece prints; title pages
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Packed and moved home and studio
The Artist of the Beautiful and Snow-flakes by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dawkins ‘Five Bridges’ Lecture at New College of the
Humanities
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---4am-1pm
4am-4pm
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!!!!"
Short stories by Nabokov and Hawthorne
Date
JUNE
Sat –Tues
June 1- 11
Weds-Sun
June 12- 16
Monday,
June 17,
Tuesday,
June 18
Wednesday,
June 19
Thursday,
June 20
Friday,
June 21
Saturday
June 22
Sunday
June 23
Monday,
June 24
Tuesday,
June 25
Wednesday,
June 26
Thursday,
June 27
Friday,
June 28
Saturday,
June 29
Sunday,
June 30
Time
Activity
Reading/Listening
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Moved, unpacked, and set up studio
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No studio time
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PM
Cleaned, organized, set up project spaces for calligraphy,
gilding, and painting
Calligraphy warm-up, penned 21 lines
transferred floral design to page margin
Calligraphy warm-up, re-wrote 21 lines
Letters
Correspondence, shipped title page print
No Studio Time
Calligraphy practice; worked on letters; correspondence
AM
PM
AM
PM
AM
PM
AM
PM
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Debussey- Complete Works for Solo Piano
Talks by Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Peter Boghossian
Bach Cello Suites
Quiet
No Studio Time
Quiet
Debussey- Complete Works for Solo Piano
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No Studio Time
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10am-11am
Calligraphy warm-up
Quiet
PM
Calligraphy warm-up, letters
Quiet
PM
Calligraphy warm-up, letters
Quiet
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No studio time
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No studio time
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No studio time
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No studio time
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Date
JULY
Monday,
July 1
Tuesday,
July 2
Wednesday,
July 3
Thursday,
July 4
Friday,
July 5
Saturday
July 6
Sunday
July 7
Monday,
July 8
Tuesday,
July 9
Wednesday,
July 10
Thursday,
July 11
Fri-Mon,
July 12-21
Time
Activity
Reading/Listening
Calligraphy; Research
Calligraphy
Calligraphy
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No Studio time
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No Studio time
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Travel-Albequerque
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Travel-Oklahoma City; book design and layout
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Calligraphy—letters and page layout; research
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Calligraphy, book design
Travel-OKC to Albequerque
Travel-Albequerque to PHX
No Studio Time
Date
AUGUST
Thursday,
August 1
Friday,
August 2
Saturday
August 3
Sunday
August 4
Monday,
August 5
Tuesday,
August 6
Wednesday,
August 7
Thursday,
August 8
Friday,
August 9
Saturday
August 10
Sunday
August 11
Monday,
August 12
Tuesday,
August 13
Wednesday,
August 14
Thursday,
August 15
Friday,
August 16
Time
Activity
Reading/Listening
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No Studio Time
The Evening Garden, Peter Loewer
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No Studio Time
Love in the Garden, Jean Pierre Otte
11am-2pm
David Attenborough- Flying Monsters BBC doc
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AZ Museum of National History-research on pterosaurs and the
evolution of flight
No Studio Time
11am-3pm
Calligraphy research and practice
6am-3pm
Calligraphy research and practice
11am-1pm
Correspondence, organization
Hunting Dinosaurs Louie Psihoyos and John
Knoebber, Random House, 1994.
Medieval Calligraphy: Its History and Technique,
Marc Drogin
Medieval Calligraphy: Its History and Technique,
Marc Drogin
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AM
PM
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Page design, cleaned and organized studio, calligraphy practice
Calligraphy work
No Studio Time
Hunting Dinosaurs Louie Psihoyos and John
Knoebber, Random House, 1994.
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No Studio Time
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No Studio Time
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8am-5pm
Bird, Beast, and Flower, Marie Angel and Ian Parsons
7am-1pm
Calligraphy layout and book design, research on megalodon and
carnotaurus
Calligraphy layout and book design
7am-5pm
Calligraphy layout and book design
7am-1pm
Designed layout for large landscape painting, research on
evolution by hybridization in the Cliffrose (Purshia genus)
Updated studio log, ordered art supplies, Cliffrose research
7am-10am
Neil Degrasse Tyson StarTalk Podcasts
Jeff Minton “Cliffrose, fragrant shrub in scenic sites,”
Daily Camera, Boulder, CO
Travis, Steven E, Baggs, Joanne E., Maschinski,
Joyce, “Disentanling the role of hybridization in the
evolution of the endangered Arizona cliffrose (Purshia
subintegra; Rosaceae) a molecular and morphological
analysis.” Conserv Genet (2008) 9;1183-1194
Date
AUGUST
Saturday
August 17
Time
Activity
Reading/Listening
7am-11am
12pm-7pm
7pm-10pm
7am-3pm
4pm-6pm
7pm-9pm
7am-12pm
1pm-7pm
7am-2pm
Origin Ch 11, 12; Jerry Coyne Why Evolution is True
Ch 4; Geographical Distribution of Animals by Louis
Agassiz
William Morris By Himself: Designs and Writings,
William Morris and Gillian Naylor
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Calligraphy; research; page design and layout
Worked on letters
Observed nighthawks and hummingbird moths
Calligraphy; research; page design and layout
Letters
Observed nighthawks and hummingbird moths
Reading/Research
Calligraphy; Letters
Calligraphy; Research;
Page design and layout
Research on AZ mistletoe, oak, and pollinators; sketchbook
Calligraphy/Illumination – Letters; Page design and layout
Reading/Research; sketchbook notes
Calligraphy - Letters
Reading/Research; sketchbook notes
Cut paper, ruled lines
Butterfly observation, image collection, and research at local
butterfly atrium
Reading and research
7am-3pm
5pm-11pm
Correspondence with science advisors; research
Page design and layout
Tuesday,
August 27
Wednesday,
August 28
Thursday,
August 29
Friday,
August 30
7am-1pm
8pm-10pm
7am-12pm
2pm-6pm
8am-8pm
Correspondence with science advisors; research for introduction
Page design and layout; Letters
Research
Design and Layout
Design and Layout
8am-8pm
Saturday,
August 31
8am-8pm
Reading and research; classified script style as combination of
flourished Carolingian and Humanist miniscule with Lombardic
and Roman capitals
Updated beetle list, worked on scheduling for research trip
Reading and research
William Morris A Note on his Aims in Founding the
Kelmscott Press, edited by William S. Peterson.
William Morris Society/Grolier Club, 1996.
Review of The Dark Side of CD; Evolution vs. God by
Ray Comfort and review by Jaclyn Glenn
www.tertullian.org/manuscripts_apologeticum; Codex
Oxoniensis, Balliolensis 79
The History, Art and Palaeography of the Manuscript
Styled the Utrecht Psalter, Walter De Gray Birch
Calligrapher’s Bible, David Harris and Janet Mehigan
2003; Calligraphy Studio, Christopher Calderhead,
2012; Utrecht Psalter, ninth century; Codex Vaticanus
Various websites on Carolingian and Humanist
lettering and decoration styles
Sunday
August 18
Monday,
August 19
Tuesday,
August 20
Wednesday,
August 21
Thursday,
August 22
Friday,
August 23
Saturday
August 24
Sunday
August 25
Monday,
August 26
6am-11am
1pm-8pm
7am-11am
1pm-7pm
7am-9am
10am-1pm
10am-2pm
The Clouds of Magellan, Norman Dubie, Recursos
Press, Santa Fe
The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan; The Genius of
Turner: Painting the Industrial Revolution (YT video)
Quiet
Quiet
Debussy - Complete Works for Solo Piano
Amazing Rare Things, David Attenborough; Darwin’s
Ghost, Ch 11-12, Steve Jones
Flight of the Butterflies 3D (2012)
Various books on fossils; Arctic Dinosaurs (NOVA)
Date
September
Sun-Tues
Sept. 1-3
Time
Activity
Reading/Listening
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Wednesday,
September 4
9am-11am
4pm-6pm
10pm-12pm
6am-9am
5pm-9pm
8am-1pm
Correspondence with science advisors; scheduling for research
trip; observed oak gall in scrub oak, pink, striped hummingbird
moths, and taxidermied butterfly collections; min. book design
Bookkeeping; researched AZ educational standards in
elementary school science and art
added to sketchbook; cleaned and organized studio
Reading/research
Planning for research trip; updated studio log; research
Calligraphy; design and layout
Reading/research on ocean black holes
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Visited local butterfly atrium, took reference photos
G. Haller and F. J. Beron-VeraCoherent Lagrangian
vortices: The black holes of turbulence
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No Studio Time
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7am-12pm
2pm----
Calligraphy—alphabet practice; wrote for three hours
Reading/research; Letters
No Studio Time
Rain
7am-10am
Ordered books and supplies
Calligraphy; wrote for two hours
Reading/research; Framed and shipped beetle print
Calligraphy-wrote for three hours; book design
NOVA, Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
Thursday,
September 5
Friday,
September 6
Saturday
September 7
Sunday
September 8
Monday,
September 9
Tuesday,
September 10
Wednesday,
September 11
Thursday,
September 12
6am-1pm
2pm-8pm
Friday,
September 13
Saturday
September 14
Sunday
September 15
Monday
September 16
7am-11am
1pm-8pm
7am-11am
1pm-8pm
8am-4pm
7pm-10pm
12pm-3pm
Tuesday
September 17
9am-11am
Reading and research; sketchbook
Calligraphy; book design
Calligraphy; book design
Prepared for Tucson trip
Travel day to Tucson; visited the Arizona Insect Festival
Worked on studies for ivy border design
Met with Dr. Noah Whiteman, toured Whiteman Laboratory at
the University of Arizona; discussed his lab’s study organisms,
interviewed lab members about their research
Met with Dr. Carl Olson at the University of AZ Department of
Entomology to photograph the U of A Insect Collection (UAIC)
Howard Gardner and Steven Pinker: Lives of the
Mind (Youtube video); William Morris A Note on his
Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press, ed. William S.
Peterson. William Morris Society/Grolier Club, 1996.
NASA video: Perpetual Ocean
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Frederick Newberry, “The Artist of the Beautiful”:
Crossing the Transcendent Divide in Hawthorne’s
Fiction
The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin, facsimile of
William Morris’ Kelmscott Press edition
Enya: Watermark (1988), Shepherd Moons (1991) and
The Memory of Trees (1995)
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Date
September
Time
Activity
Reading/Listening
Wednesday,
Sept 18-22
Monday,
September 23
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No Studio Time
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6am-3pm
Sketchbook; finalized orchid/moth line drawing; orchid color
study; started Marginalia notebook
Tuesday,
September 24
Wednesday,
September 25
Thursday,
September 26
Friday,
September 27
7am-9am
8pm-10pm
6am-2pm
7pm-12am
7am-2pm
6pm-10pm
6am-10am
11am-2pm
Updated Studio log
Cleaned and organized studio space, prepared for painting
Grand Canyon painting
Ivy border design and orchid and moth color study
Grand Canyon painting
Refined line drawings for blue morpho, orchid, and moth
Cleaned and organized studio, worked on new blog post
Grand Canyon painting
Videos: Steven Pinker’s What Our Language Habits
Reveal; and Scientific Communication for the 21st
Century, MIT
Video: Steven Pinker, Seven Wonders of the World
Saturday
September 28
Sunday
September 29
Monday
September 30
7am-11am
Organized new beetle photo references; Updated studio log;
Web post: Margisnailia; Grand Canyon painting
Grand Canyon painting: sky
7am-11am
12pm-8pm
6am-2pm
7pm-10pm
Organization and bookkeeping; Sketchbook
Blue morpho watercolor
Hitch 22 (audio)
Hitch 22 (audio)
Quiet
Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry – Blasphemy
(2006)
Quiet
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Date
October
Tuesday,
October 1
Wednesday,
October 2
Thursday,
October 3
Friday,
October 4
Saturday
October 5
Sunday
October 6
Monday,
October 7
Tuesday,
October 8
Wednesday,
October 9
Thursday,
October 10
Friday,
October 11
Saturday
October 12
Sunday
October 13
Monday
October 14
Tuesday
October 15
Time
Activity
Reading/Listening
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No Studio Time
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7am-6pm
8pm-11pm
7am-8am
8am-12pm
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Grand Canyon painting: foreground
Letters
Updated Studio Log
Grand Canyon painting
No Studio Time
Various talks on science, poetry, and art on YouTube
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No Studio Time
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9am-1pm
----
12pm-3pm
7pm-9pm
7am-9am
Gathered, arranged, sketched, and photographed plants for four
page border designs
Grand Canyon painting
Letters
Letters
11am-1pm
6pm-11pm
6am-11am
5pm-11pm
1pm-3pm
6pm-11pm
9am-5pm
Cliffrose line drawing
Letters-border painting
Blue morpho
Letters-border painting
Blue morpho
Letters-border painting
Cliffrose painting
Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective
Agency and Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
Quiet
Star Talk Radio with Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Cosmos-Episode 1-2
7am-4pm
6pm-10pm
7am-2pm
6pm-10pm
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Grand Canyon painting
Letters-painted borders
Grand Canyon painting
Letters-painted borders
No Studio Time
Cosmos-Episode 3; Mozart piano concertos
Quiet
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Quiet
Quiet
Cosmos- Episode 4; Debussy
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Date
September
Time
Activity
Reading/Listening
Wednesday,
October 16
Thursday,
October 17
Friday,
October 18
Saturday
October 19
Sunday
October 20
Monday
October 21
Tuesday,
October 22
Wednesday,
October 23
Thursday,
October 24
Friday,
October 25
Saturday
October 26
Sunday
October 27
Monday,
October 28
Tuesday,
October 29
7am-2pm
6pm-10pm
7am-2pm
6pm-12pm
9am-10am
Grand Canyon painting
Letters- painted borders
Grand Canyon painting
Letters-added instacoll base for gilding on final details
Updated Studio Log
Cosmos- Episode 5
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No Studio Time
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No Studio Time
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8am-1pm
Reading and research; email; organized studio space
Quiet
9pm-12pm
Gilded all letters and erased pencil lines
Star Talk Radio
9am-2pm
7pm-10pm
8am-12am
Correspondence; organized studio space
Added wax seals to all letters
Long-term planning; researched materials and labor for two
miniature books; ordered paper and cloth samples
Long-term planning; reading and research; Cleaned-up,
packaged letters for shipping
Long-term planning; reading and research
Quiet
Finalized layout for Quote and Dedication pages; reading and
research; Long-term planning and research
Bought new brushes for finishing title page reproductions
Bookkeeping and organization
Reading and page re-design
Cleaning and organizing; wrote priority list for November;
updated Studio Log; Wrote preliminary version of Introduction
and first paragraphs of Chapters 1-3
Read and reviewed overall progression of concepts; research for
initial letter designs; transferred orchid and moth line drawing
Cut and ruled paper; Gilded/embellished three beetle prints
Rewrote one letter; orchid and moth color study
Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson; Design in the
Age of Darwin
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Wednesday,
October 30
Thursday,
October 31
8am-10pm
8am-10pm
8am-10pm
10am-11am
7pm-11pm
7am-9am
12pm-2pm
9pm-11pm
7am-2pm
8pm-11pm
10am-12pm
5pm-2am
Cosmos- Episode 6
Quiet
Various tutorials on papermaking and bookmaking
Various tutorials on papermaking and bookmaking
Various tutorials on papermaking and bookmaking
Origin: Historical Sketch and Introduction
Origin: Introduction to Ch 3
Origin:Introduction to Ch. 14; The Lidisfarne
Gospels; The Book of Kells
Quiet
Star Talk Radio
Date
November
Friday,
November 1
Saturday
November 2
Sunday
November 3
Monday,
November 4
Tuesday,
November 5
Wednesday,
November 6
Thursday,
November 7
Friday,
November 8
Saturday,
November 9
Sunday,
November 10
Time
Activity
Reading/Listening
7am-1pm
Cleaned and organized studio; bookkeeping
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No Studio Time
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No Studio Time
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8am-10am
Star Talk Radio with Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Monday,
November 11
Tuesday,
November 12
Wednesday,
November 13
Thursday,
November 14
Friday,
November 15
8am-10am
Correspondence; updated Studio Log; redrew orchid leaves;
transferred line drawing to paper
Painted moth and orchid leaves; transferred ivy border to last
letter; year-end bookkeeping
Finished orchid and moth painting; reading and research;
worked on list of designs for large illuminations
Started painting ivy border on last letter; re-painted leaves;
reading and research
Worked on orchid and moth painting; repainted flower
Painted ivy border on letter; long-term planning; book design
Long-term planning; worked on orchid/moth and blue morpho;
painted ivy border on letter; started packing/shipping process
Finished painting ivy border and added acrylic base for gilding;
illuminated first blue morpho test prints with iridescent
watercolors; book design and long-term planning
Updated Studio Log; correspondence
Quiet
8am-2pm
6pm-11pm
7pm-1am
Ordered materials and supplies; packaged and mailed letters;
updated Marginalia notebook; organized new binder
Cleaned and organized studio; updated filing system; moved
notes to larger binder; title page reproductions
Title page reproductions; reading and outlining
9am-11am
8pm-9pm
Correspondence; orchid and moth painting
Blue morpho
8pm-11pm
9am-3pm
5pm-12am
8pm-11pm
8am-1pm
7pm-11pm
7am-11pm
7am-11pm
8am-1pm
Richard Dawkins in conversation with Peter
Boghossian on 10/11/13
RD conversation with Michael Shermer on 10/31/13;
Reviewed Origin (Introduction to Ch 4)
Origin (Introduction to Ch 4)
Origin Ch 1-4
Dawkins and Chopra debate live-streaming from
Puebla, Mexico; Star Talk Radio
Sam Harris on Death and the Present Moment;
Dawkins on Google Authors; Star Talk Radio
Quiet
An Appetite for Wonder: RD in conversation with
Adam Rutherford
Free Inquiry Podcasts
Origin (Introduction to Ch 4)
Quiet
Enya
Date
November
Time
Activity
Reading/Listening
Saturday,
November 16
Sunday,
November 17
Monday,
November 18
Tuesday
November 19
Wednesday
November 20
Thursday
November 21
Friday,
November 22
Saturday,
November 23
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No Studio Time
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No Studio Time
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9pm-12am
Reading and cross-referencing
The Annotated Origin, James T. Costa, Intro to Ch. 4
7am-9am
Reading and cross-referencing; correspondence
Sunday,
November 24
Monday,
November 25
Tuesday
November 26
Wednesday
November 27
Thurs-Sun,
Nov 28-31
5pm-11pm
8am-1pm
7pm-12am
9am-2pm
3pm-8pm
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8am-11am
7pm-11pm
9pm-11pm
10am-12pm
2pm-11pm
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The Origin of Species, Audiobook read by Richard
Dawkins; Intro to Ch. 4
Reading and cross-referencing; Title Page paintings: acrylic base Evolution: A Little History of a Great Idea, Gerard
for gold lettering (1)
Cheshire
Correspondence; Title Page paintings: finished acrylic base for
Rain
gold lettering (1)
Cleaning; organizing; correspondence
Rain
Title Page paintings: acrylic base for gold lettering (2)
Long-term planning; book design
Quiet
Title Page paintings: acrylic base for gold lettering (3)
Evolution: A Little History of a Great Idea, Gerard
Cheshire
Title Page paintings: acrylic base for gold lettering (4)
TAM talks 2011-2013; James Randi lecture “The
Search for the Chimera,” Princeton, 2012
Orchid and Moth print
Quiet
Title Page paintings: acrylic base for gold lettering (4-5)
Star Talk Radio
Title Page paintings: acrylic base for gold lettering (5-6)
Chocolat
Title Page paintings: acrylic base for gold lettering (6)
No Studio Time
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Date
DECEMBER
Saturday,
December 1
Sunday,
December 2
Time
Activity
Reading/Listening
8pm-11pm
Re-designed Introduction, corresponded with collectors
Quiet
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No Studio Time; looked at layout for title page and frontispiece
together
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Monday,
December 3
Tuesday,
December 4
Wednesday,
December 5
Thursday,
December 6
Fri, Dec 7Tues, Dec 11
Wednesday,
December 12
9am-11pm
6am--1pm
Bookkeeping, ordered sample museum case for originals,
corresponded with collectors, calligraphy practice, title page
Title page and frontispiece, wrote letter to science advisors
Dawkins on giving Faraday Christmas Lectures in
1991, various TED Talks
Quiet
6am-1pm
2pm-10pm
6am-12pm
12pm-3pm
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Calligraphy practice, correspondence
KS Letters-final writing and gilding
Calligraphy practice/KS Letters-final writing and gilding
Correspondence with collectors
No studio time
Quiet
Rodin-Private Life of a Masterpiece
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2am-4am
4pm-10pm
Quiet
Thurs, Dec 13Tues, Dec 18
Wednesday,
December 19
Thurs, Dec 20Tues, Dec 25
Wednesday,
December 26
Thurs, Dec 27Sat, Dec 29
Sunday,
December 30
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Dedication page
Shipped beetle painting, prepared two others to ship, calligraphy
practice, KS letters, title page and frontispiece
No Studio Time
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Framed, packed, and shipped 15 beetle prints
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No Sutdio Time
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Worked on sea chest design and updated manuscript calculations
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No Studio Time
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2pm-5pm
6pm-12am
Quiet
Monday,
December 31
5am-5pm
Research for frontispiece design and procedure, made action list
for book fair in February, correspondence with science advisors
and collectors
Worked on tree of life design, purchased materials and supplies
for book fair exhibit, frontispiece, and title page completion
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Barbara Streisand One Voice concert, KD Lang
Harvest of Seven Years