Lots of changes this year! I am busy but happy working as an archivist for the Sisters of the Living Word in Arlington Heights, IL; volunteering regularly as a book conservation assistant at Chicago’s Newberry Library; running my own bookbinding business, McFarland Book Repair; and making journals for my relatively new Etsy shop, LyranJournals. On top of all that our garden this year provided us with the majority of our needed produce which, combined with our new compost bin, helped us to continue learning about how to live responsibly on the planet even while living in Chicago.

Rebekah McFarland CdeP 2005