Continue Reading Octavia E. Butler, Beacon. Today’s musings will be all over the map, geographically, emotionally and with regards to content that has preoccupied my brain for a…
Continue Reading The Huntington Chinese Garden I was primed for color, after watching Yimou Zhang’s recent film Shadow. It is a visual and a psychological master piece from…
Continue Reading Tides On a day sunny last week, my son took me to a beach, El Pescador, near Malibu, where he occasionally fishes. A…
Continue Reading Art on the Road: Horticultural Treasures and the Politics of Memory. “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force…
Continue Reading Art on the Road: The Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA. Ursula K LeGuin, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986) LeGuin’s essay on narrative theory is a masterful example of analytic prose describing…
Continue Reading Communal Power Explore with me, for a second time this week. Checking out a community garden in Altadena that allots parcels of land for…
Continue Reading Altadena, CA. Walk with me. A first exploration of a neighborhood, with many more to come, I’m sure. Share my pleasure at discovering diverse…
Continue Reading Travel Report # 1 – The Drive South Facing West from California’s Shores Facing west from California’s shores,Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound,I, a child, very old, over waves, towards…
Continue Reading Intermission Don’t you believe everything you read….nothing is closed, things are just going to switch to travel mode. I will be reporting…
Continue Reading Learning (from) History. Ferocious, complicated, brave women. Also: resilience, clarity, decisive action. ⅔ into Black History month I figured it’s time to contemplate cultural offerings that…
