This picture was taken in the Sculpture Garden at The New Orleans Museum of Art six years ago by the man who I would discover to be the love of my life. Can you imagine? I had no idea, then, as I walked through the garden with this tall, gentle sculptor that we would one [...]
(Paintings by Myrtle Von Damitz III , a New Orleans artist and amazing lady. Her work is prophetic, and speaks to me about what the elemental spirits might be whispering about what we are doing.) Tonight, my grandfather, my sweetheart and I went to eat oysters. We wanted to taste the last fruits of the [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Magic Windows are portals into the strange and beautiful world I inhabit, and the marvelous people, places and things come across in my day to day – all captured with the aid of my handy magic celephone (it’s an iPhone). The Magic Windows series originated as an attempt to capture the ephemeral objects and fleeting [...]
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
The season turns, and I return home to find the scarlet hurricane lilies abloom and two friends dead in New Orleans. I don’t even know if they were acquainted, but they both died in the same week, probably within blocks of each other. I have to write, have to attempt to honor them in some [...]
Saturday, August 29, 2009
A hard day, full of painful remembrances and revelations. I wake in a panic, the dogs are barking wildly and I twist my shoulder in my haste to rise, my body not as awake as my mind. Head pounding, worried for my dear Grampa who is ill in the hospital, and today is that day- [...]
Today something magical happened: it rained while the sun was shining. I know perhaps it’s not so very rare, but when it does occur and the opportunity for dancing around madly in it present itself- well, it really is pure magic, straight-up. The light turns golden, and the drops are slanting out over the road, [...]
Oh my stars, what a week it’s been- and if only it were just the stars and other mischievous celestial bodies to blame for all this sadness and trouble. Certainly, though they’ve played their part- that hazy yellow pearl of a full moon in Scorpio seemed to be laughing at us foolish mortals with our [...]
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Once again, Gadjo Disko swallowed me up in its glittering maw, only to spit me back up days later- dazed and wondering how to get this surgical adhesive off of my face.. Well, it’s really mostly off now- after many scrubbings. What a night. Words, as usual, don’t do it justice so here’s so pictures [...]
I was Salomé for Halloween this year, as in Dance of the Seven Veils, daughter of Herodias, and all that. I suppose I oughtn’t have been surprised at how many people I met had no idea who Salomé was.. All obscure biblical references aside- I mean, really? The favorite femme fatale of the fin-de-siècle! “In [...]
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I was saddened to hear that Studs Terkel died on Halloween. He was an amazing man, whom I had the honor of meeting a couple of years ago. We went to visit him at his house in Chicago on Thanksgiving morning. It was bitter cold and snow was on the ground, too bright- it gave [...]
