Kristin Freeman:  

Life Retirement is my present life's situation. I have left my many friends in the Trinity River communities of Hoopa/Willow Creek and Orleans and returned to Montana to live near family. Just a couple of blocks from the walking trail throughout the city I can stroll along with my camera and capture skies, birds and life as it unfolds in this wonderful and culturally diverse city in Montana. My gardens are being set-in here at my in-town bungalow and the farmer me is happy to have a small fruit and vegetable garden along with the perennials that add so much color in this, the "garden city" of Montana. My studio space for my fiber constructions is nearly unpacked...another week and I may have time and space for all that calls me from the years of creating and sketching and drawing. Textiles are most always the media I choose and now, without the commitment to the time clock, I am free to play and create whenever I desire. I still participate in writing on-line with folks from study weeks with Natalie Goldberg in Taos; add to that my writing group in Willow Creek who call each Monday for my contribution to the weekly prompt and any new poems and there will not be a lapse in the writing piece of life for me. My parish church here has just been voted the best in Missoula so whether or not I decide to participate in the music making I will always be filled with beautiful music ...Expand for more