Kary Hess
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Went to this beautiful little art opening in Berkeley yesterday! It was a tiny art gallery above a little library. New exhibits every three weeks! The curator has a printing workshop in her barn too. @knightannee @juliepoprockswag

Went to this beautiful little art opening in Berkeley yesterday! It was a tiny art gallery above a little library. New exhibits every three weeks! The curator has a printing workshop in her barn too. @knightannee @juliepoprockswag

Went to this beautiful little art opening in Berkeley yesterday! It was a tiny art gallery above a little library. New exhibits every three weeks! The curator has a printing workshop in her barn too. @knightannee @juliepoprockswag

Went to this beautiful little art opening in Berkeley yesterday! It was a tiny art gallery above a little library. New exhibits every three weeks! The curator has a printing workshop in her barn too. @knightannee @juliepoprockswag

Went to this beautiful little art opening in Berkeley yesterday! It was a tiny art gallery above a little library. New exhibits every three weeks! The curator has a printing workshop in her barn too. @knightannee @juliepoprockswag

Went to this beautiful little art opening in Berkeley yesterday! It was a tiny art gallery above a little library. New exhibits every three weeks! The curator has a printing workshop in her barn too. @knightannee @juliepoprockswag

Just reading some feminist poetry downtown during national poetry month…

Thank you @northbaybohemian for the cover and great article!
🙏🏼💜♻️😎💃🏻
Read all about the work that goes into putting thebeloved @sonomacommunitycenter #trashionfashionsonoma fundraising events on.
Written by Kary Hess @kary.hell
Interviews w/ Trashion Director, Molly Spencer @missmollysonoma and 2026 Trashion Runway judge Ryan Lely @ryan_lely .
Photo Credit: @mkelleyphoto
Cover Photo: 2025 @artquest.at.srhs Trashion Design Look "Stuffystein" - reach out if you designed this!
Inside Photo: 2025 Runway Entry
"Wild West Dandy" by Janet Nusbaum @sweetnus2 and Jerzy Wollakmodeled by @ivan_jimenez0108
Let's go!
#trashion #trashionfashionsonoma #sonoma #northbay

Thank you @northbaybohemian for the cover and great article!
🙏🏼💜♻️😎💃🏻
Read all about the work that goes into putting thebeloved @sonomacommunitycenter #trashionfashionsonoma fundraising events on.
Written by Kary Hess @kary.hell
Interviews w/ Trashion Director, Molly Spencer @missmollysonoma and 2026 Trashion Runway judge Ryan Lely @ryan_lely .
Photo Credit: @mkelleyphoto
Cover Photo: 2025 @artquest.at.srhs Trashion Design Look "Stuffystein" - reach out if you designed this!
Inside Photo: 2025 Runway Entry
"Wild West Dandy" by Janet Nusbaum @sweetnus2 and Jerzy Wollakmodeled by @ivan_jimenez0108
Let's go!
#trashion #trashionfashionsonoma #sonoma #northbay

Thank you @northbaybohemian for the cover and great article!
🙏🏼💜♻️😎💃🏻
Read all about the work that goes into putting thebeloved @sonomacommunitycenter #trashionfashionsonoma fundraising events on.
Written by Kary Hess @kary.hell
Interviews w/ Trashion Director, Molly Spencer @missmollysonoma and 2026 Trashion Runway judge Ryan Lely @ryan_lely .
Photo Credit: @mkelleyphoto
Cover Photo: 2025 @artquest.at.srhs Trashion Design Look "Stuffystein" - reach out if you designed this!
Inside Photo: 2025 Runway Entry
"Wild West Dandy" by Janet Nusbaum @sweetnus2 and Jerzy Wollakmodeled by @ivan_jimenez0108
Let's go!
#trashion #trashionfashionsonoma #sonoma #northbay

Learned visible mending from @honeyfolkclothing at @fibershed_in Point Reyes yesterday! I’ve wanted to learn this for a while, I’d forgotten his much I love this kind of project, plus this sweater finally doesn’t have a hole in the elbow…. Great people there and we were greeted with dandelion hot chocolate when we walked in ✨

Learned visible mending from @honeyfolkclothing at @fibershed_in Point Reyes yesterday! I’ve wanted to learn this for a while, I’d forgotten his much I love this kind of project, plus this sweater finally doesn’t have a hole in the elbow…. Great people there and we were greeted with dandelion hot chocolate when we walked in ✨

More holiday reading, including diving back into the work of one of my favorite authors, Jhumpa Lahiri, A Tree, which was a wonderful gift from my son (all the pages are red!), and a sub to the Paris Review from Daedalus. ✨💫

Holiday reading, all gifts from family—they know me so well! #storyofartwithoutmen #howaboutnow #frenchcooking

Holiday reading, all gifts from family—they know me so well! #storyofartwithoutmen #howaboutnow #frenchcooking

Holiday reading, all gifts from family—they know me so well! #storyofartwithoutmen #howaboutnow #frenchcooking

(Link to read in my bio) After all the interviewing it was fun to be interviewed by Ingrid for The Petaluma Poetry Walk. Being on the other end of it is revealing, like a creative therapeutic session of sorts, I’m left thinking later on, did I just say that? Well, “she said what she said.” Poetry is an essential part of the fabric of my life. So thank you for making me grapple with the process. But the driver for poetry and life itself is clearly love. I humbly bow to the mystery that breaks my heart open. Viva la poesia! Thank you to @ingridkeirpoetry and @kary.hell for such a beautiful experience at Petaluma Poetry Walk. Support the poets, and the walk, and donate to the event to keep it going. #poet #poetry #poetrycommunity @petalumapoetrywalk #books #bookstore #writer #writers #poetry #poetrylover #booklover

(Link to read in my bio) After all the interviewing it was fun to be interviewed by Ingrid for The Petaluma Poetry Walk. Being on the other end of it is revealing, like a creative therapeutic session of sorts, I’m left thinking later on, did I just say that? Well, “she said what she said.” Poetry is an essential part of the fabric of my life. So thank you for making me grapple with the process. But the driver for poetry and life itself is clearly love. I humbly bow to the mystery that breaks my heart open. Viva la poesia! Thank you to @ingridkeirpoetry and @kary.hell for such a beautiful experience at Petaluma Poetry Walk. Support the poets, and the walk, and donate to the event to keep it going. #poet #poetry #poetrycommunity @petalumapoetrywalk #books #bookstore #writer #writers #poetry #poetrylover #booklover

Books like this one with drawings by Picasso are why I have drawings in my poetry books! Poetry and drawing go so well together—little vignettes that also tell a story and evoke ideas and feelings. From the Picasso exhibit at the Tate Modern in London. Swipe through to see the postcard view of the Millennium bridge in a light rain from an upper floor of the Tate Modern and other delights on display that day, including that famous Marcel Duchamp piece :)

Books like this one with drawings by Picasso are why I have drawings in my poetry books! Poetry and drawing go so well together—little vignettes that also tell a story and evoke ideas and feelings. From the Picasso exhibit at the Tate Modern in London. Swipe through to see the postcard view of the Millennium bridge in a light rain from an upper floor of the Tate Modern and other delights on display that day, including that famous Marcel Duchamp piece :)

Books like this one with drawings by Picasso are why I have drawings in my poetry books! Poetry and drawing go so well together—little vignettes that also tell a story and evoke ideas and feelings. From the Picasso exhibit at the Tate Modern in London. Swipe through to see the postcard view of the Millennium bridge in a light rain from an upper floor of the Tate Modern and other delights on display that day, including that famous Marcel Duchamp piece :)

Books like this one with drawings by Picasso are why I have drawings in my poetry books! Poetry and drawing go so well together—little vignettes that also tell a story and evoke ideas and feelings. From the Picasso exhibit at the Tate Modern in London. Swipe through to see the postcard view of the Millennium bridge in a light rain from an upper floor of the Tate Modern and other delights on display that day, including that famous Marcel Duchamp piece :)

Books like this one with drawings by Picasso are why I have drawings in my poetry books! Poetry and drawing go so well together—little vignettes that also tell a story and evoke ideas and feelings. From the Picasso exhibit at the Tate Modern in London. Swipe through to see the postcard view of the Millennium bridge in a light rain from an upper floor of the Tate Modern and other delights on display that day, including that famous Marcel Duchamp piece :)

Books like this one with drawings by Picasso are why I have drawings in my poetry books! Poetry and drawing go so well together—little vignettes that also tell a story and evoke ideas and feelings. From the Picasso exhibit at the Tate Modern in London. Swipe through to see the postcard view of the Millennium bridge in a light rain from an upper floor of the Tate Modern and other delights on display that day, including that famous Marcel Duchamp piece :)

Books like this one with drawings by Picasso are why I have drawings in my poetry books! Poetry and drawing go so well together—little vignettes that also tell a story and evoke ideas and feelings. From the Picasso exhibit at the Tate Modern in London. Swipe through to see the postcard view of the Millennium bridge in a light rain from an upper floor of the Tate Modern and other delights on display that day, including that famous Marcel Duchamp piece :)

Books like this one with drawings by Picasso are why I have drawings in my poetry books! Poetry and drawing go so well together—little vignettes that also tell a story and evoke ideas and feelings. From the Picasso exhibit at the Tate Modern in London. Swipe through to see the postcard view of the Millennium bridge in a light rain from an upper floor of the Tate Modern and other delights on display that day, including that famous Marcel Duchamp piece :)

Books in Paris and London, from the Alps Bookshop in Paris to the British Library where we viewed the original manuscript of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, to random book placement, including drama centered around a John Cage book (of all things) that unfolded in front of us in a bar in Saint-Germain one night.

Books in Paris and London, from the Alps Bookshop in Paris to the British Library where we viewed the original manuscript of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, to random book placement, including drama centered around a John Cage book (of all things) that unfolded in front of us in a bar in Saint-Germain one night.

Books in Paris and London, from the Alps Bookshop in Paris to the British Library where we viewed the original manuscript of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, to random book placement, including drama centered around a John Cage book (of all things) that unfolded in front of us in a bar in Saint-Germain one night.

Books in Paris and London, from the Alps Bookshop in Paris to the British Library where we viewed the original manuscript of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, to random book placement, including drama centered around a John Cage book (of all things) that unfolded in front of us in a bar in Saint-Germain one night.

Books in Paris and London, from the Alps Bookshop in Paris to the British Library where we viewed the original manuscript of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, to random book placement, including drama centered around a John Cage book (of all things) that unfolded in front of us in a bar in Saint-Germain one night.

Books in Paris and London, from the Alps Bookshop in Paris to the British Library where we viewed the original manuscript of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, to random book placement, including drama centered around a John Cage book (of all things) that unfolded in front of us in a bar in Saint-Germain one night.

Books in Paris and London, from the Alps Bookshop in Paris to the British Library where we viewed the original manuscript of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, to random book placement, including drama centered around a John Cage book (of all things) that unfolded in front of us in a bar in Saint-Germain one night.

Books in Paris and London, from the Alps Bookshop in Paris to the British Library where we viewed the original manuscript of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, to random book placement, including drama centered around a John Cage book (of all things) that unfolded in front of us in a bar in Saint-Germain one night.

Books in Paris and London, from the Alps Bookshop in Paris to the British Library where we viewed the original manuscript of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, to random book placement, including drama centered around a John Cage book (of all things) that unfolded in front of us in a bar in Saint-Germain one night.

We took a metro and walked in light rain to see the Rick Owens exhibit in Paris. (Recommended by my son) It was a fashion enthusiast’s dream and an artful world he and his wife Michèle Lamy have created.

We took a metro and walked in light rain to see the Rick Owens exhibit in Paris. (Recommended by my son) It was a fashion enthusiast’s dream and an artful world he and his wife Michèle Lamy have created.

We took a metro and walked in light rain to see the Rick Owens exhibit in Paris. (Recommended by my son) It was a fashion enthusiast’s dream and an artful world he and his wife Michèle Lamy have created.

We took a metro and walked in light rain to see the Rick Owens exhibit in Paris. (Recommended by my son) It was a fashion enthusiast’s dream and an artful world he and his wife Michèle Lamy have created.

We took a metro and walked in light rain to see the Rick Owens exhibit in Paris. (Recommended by my son) It was a fashion enthusiast’s dream and an artful world he and his wife Michèle Lamy have created.

We took a metro and walked in light rain to see the Rick Owens exhibit in Paris. (Recommended by my son) It was a fashion enthusiast’s dream and an artful world he and his wife Michèle Lamy have created.

We took a metro and walked in light rain to see the Rick Owens exhibit in Paris. (Recommended by my son) It was a fashion enthusiast’s dream and an artful world he and his wife Michèle Lamy have created.

We took a metro and walked in light rain to see the Rick Owens exhibit in Paris. (Recommended by my son) It was a fashion enthusiast’s dream and an artful world he and his wife Michèle Lamy have created.

We took a metro and walked in light rain to see the Rick Owens exhibit in Paris. (Recommended by my son) It was a fashion enthusiast’s dream and an artful world he and his wife Michèle Lamy have created.

Lots of French wine, amazing cheeses, and snails with friends! Coffee and writing at Le Select and Les Deux Magots! Small things but easily highlights :) Also a literary cafe called Les Éditeurs! (Black and white photo by @abe.levy )

Lots of French wine, amazing cheeses, and snails with friends! Coffee and writing at Le Select and Les Deux Magots! Small things but easily highlights :) Also a literary cafe called Les Éditeurs! (Black and white photo by @abe.levy )

Lots of French wine, amazing cheeses, and snails with friends! Coffee and writing at Le Select and Les Deux Magots! Small things but easily highlights :) Also a literary cafe called Les Éditeurs! (Black and white photo by @abe.levy )

Lots of French wine, amazing cheeses, and snails with friends! Coffee and writing at Le Select and Les Deux Magots! Small things but easily highlights :) Also a literary cafe called Les Éditeurs! (Black and white photo by @abe.levy )

Lots of French wine, amazing cheeses, and snails with friends! Coffee and writing at Le Select and Les Deux Magots! Small things but easily highlights :) Also a literary cafe called Les Éditeurs! (Black and white photo by @abe.levy )

Lots of French wine, amazing cheeses, and snails with friends! Coffee and writing at Le Select and Les Deux Magots! Small things but easily highlights :) Also a literary cafe called Les Éditeurs! (Black and white photo by @abe.levy )

Lots of French wine, amazing cheeses, and snails with friends! Coffee and writing at Le Select and Les Deux Magots! Small things but easily highlights :) Also a literary cafe called Les Éditeurs! (Black and white photo by @abe.levy )

Lots of French wine, amazing cheeses, and snails with friends! Coffee and writing at Le Select and Les Deux Magots! Small things but easily highlights :) Also a literary cafe called Les Éditeurs! (Black and white photo by @abe.levy )

Lots of French wine, amazing cheeses, and snails with friends! Coffee and writing at Le Select and Les Deux Magots! Small things but easily highlights :) Also a literary cafe called Les Éditeurs! (Black and white photo by @abe.levy )

Lots of French wine, amazing cheeses, and snails with friends! Coffee and writing at Le Select and Les Deux Magots! Small things but easily highlights :) Also a literary cafe called Les Éditeurs! (Black and white photo by @abe.levy )
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