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KWELI JOURNAL LAUNCH READING FEATURING MY COVER ART AND AN INTERVIEW FROM FRANCE
Hello EVERYONE!This event was last month but I didn't get to see it until last night-- they recorded me in France-- and thought I would share it because I didn't realize memories like my accordion teacher would come up in such detail. This painting, Study of Vinzula, belongs to and lives wit...
Cottage by the Sea (in nail polish)
Happy October everyone! My September in France, staying with an editor who lives with a big old sweet dog in a large 2 bedroom flat surrounded by park-like woods for 800 euros a month, reminded me of the myriad of ways we can choose to live and at what cost. He is some 20 - 30 minutes from the beach...
Almost There with the Cover...
The publisher works with a designer in Brazil who has done a little over 20 versions of this cover, and as you can probably see my first and last name needs a space, so that it's not only clear but that the Y moves a smidgeon to the right and will look more centered. I feel like I'm back in ...
DIARY PAGE
I don't know about you and handwritten diaries but I have had a rather conflicted relationship with them, in that when moving (as I have done now around 22 times) whenever I come across the diaries, I either burn the pages in a fireplace if available or bury them in the ground whole with the cov...
GLOSSOLALIA
Hello Everyone! Here's a reading of my story "Glossolalia" which was accepted for publication in Kweli Journal at the beginning of this week and will be in my story collection next year, and I have the exact pubdate for the book!September 26, 2023Very excited and still agonizing over a t...
PAINTING STARS ON CHAIRS
I've been obsessed with stars lately: I have a black star on the wall in the kitchen that initially was a reminder of Bowie's last album Blackstar and then quickly became something else, as I've always been a night sky gazer and have during the past couple years paid more attention to as...
TWO SISTERS
While doing Qigong this morning, I noticed I was facing this painting, a diptych that I sold many years ago but inherited back somewhat recently when the owner transitioned, and I realized I wanted to tell you the story of it. This piece is one of my favorites.I was living in Williamsburg, NY in 199...
DEATH IS BEAUTIFUL Reading
So strange, because I posted this yesterday on Saturday and it didn't show up when I reopened the page today. Hopefully you are all out enjoying a beautiful Sunday and see this for a listen in the perfect timing, whatever days, weeks, months from now. It's exactly 15:15 minutes.LOVE
"DEATH IS BEAUTIFUL" STORY out on The MARKAZ REVIEW
This is the completed wallpaper of '80s fanfold computer paper painted in acrylics, watercolor style, in my nook, and I will now start on the other side.I have a story out on The Markaz Review, which some of you have already read, but I will record a reading of it within the next couple days for...
THE TIGER AND THE SNAKE
I went to LACMA last weekend where in the courtyard they had all 12 Chinese astrology figures, just the heads, mounted on very tall polls and because my one-time-print level patrons get a choice of prints, it reminded me that with the printmaking process of intaglio on copper plate, I had made a ver...
KEY TO THE CITY Reading
Hello Everyone, happy weekend!I wanted to read to you my essay for Los Angeles Review of Books new Spring Quarterly Journal called "Key to the City." I read it at the launch party two Saturdays ago, but I wanted you to hear it, and myself as well, since I got so much positive feedback afterw...
PUBLISHED DRAWINGS FOR BENEFITS BOOK
HELLO EVERYONE!Since you saw many of the finished drawings while I was in process last July/August before my deadline,I just wanted to post a couple of the published drawings in Leslie T. Grover's novel The Benefits of Eating White Folks, which as far as I can tell the author and the publisher h...
THE STORY COLLECTION TITLE DEBATE
Hello Everyone!I am just about finished negotiating the details of my contract with the publisher for the story collection, we have come to agreement on everything except the title. The working title was (is) "Random Kid in a Black Hole" named for one of the 14 stories, but the publisher say...
Few Things
Most of you know from my social media posts that my dad made his transition and so most of my time has gone to service and burial arrangements, which aren't yet set due to the backlog in the death industry, and I have been doing too much squeezing off of grief to get through everything and be th...
Story of the Postcard that Hopefully Already Arrived
Wishing you all a very happy April! I wanted to tell you the story of this painting, "Laura with Tulips," which my sister modeled for, and was bought in 2019 by a couple who lent the painting to a safe house/halfway house in Minneapolis, and while it was there so many children, who did not l...
'80s Fanfold Computer Paper as Wallpaper
For some days now I have finally been going into the fat box of 1980s fanfold computer paper that my friend Joel Rose gave me when I was living in New York in the '90s. Joel published a literary magazine called Between C and D: New Writing From the Lower Eastside Fiction magazine, printed on thi...
PARTNERSHIP WITH HOUSING WORKS for NATIONAL WRITE YOUR STORY DAY
Hello Everyone!I realized that I often do not share what may have been posted on Instagram, Facebook and/or Twitter-- all of where Housing Works posted this video-- so here is the video where I share my thoughts on why I think it's important to write your story. I was invited by the wonderful ac...
WATERCOLOR SUNDAY
Just wanted to share with you my first cottage nook watercolor painting session, two days ago Sunday. I have been devouring Alice Walker's coming "Gathering Blossoms Under Fire" a collection of her journals, which comes out mid-April. Many years ago she sent me herself a copy of In Searc...
Commiting
Never had a meditation practice longer than 90 days-- and that was 7 years ago due to a challenge that I signed my name to, saying that if I didn't, I would cut my hair off-- but as the world continues to turn in ever more tightening, constricting and frightening ways, it's time for me to th...
TONI MORRISON'S short story "Sweetness"
Maybe a week or more ago I saved an image of a baby who I wanted to draw, and this was unusual since I don't think that I have much drawn babies other than my own kid when they were first born. I remember selling the first painting I did of them, which was called "Fire Rat" because that ...
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!
I think it was on Saturday morning that I listened to Alain de Botton being interviewed on NPR's The Examined Life (?) I think the show might be called. And he talked about our human need to have friends, loved ones who we can say anything to, confide our deepest thoughts, secrets and who will r...
Story Collection Title & Pitch
Hello everyone, it's my half birthday today and I write you from the room of my host's community house. I may have, probably have, mentioned that my first publisher is interested in doing another book and I was planning on emailing him during the next few days the title I am thinking about &...
THE COUCHSURF CONTINUES
I have been managing to get writing done in the varied homes and atmospheres of beloveds putting me up until I am able to sign the lease on Feb. 1st for a cottage, a find and happening with all thanks to Debbie here. The drawing is from today, a contemplation of pigs and all we have in common with t...
GOODBYE 2021
I am writing you from a tiny room in a community house with a shared bathroom in the Mar Vista area of L.A., where it's been raining non-stop for days. I will be here through New Year's morning, when I move to a friend's place in Silver Lake, while looking for an apartment to rent.I have...
HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE!
I returned early from Sedona since I want and need to move from where I've been living and so I didn't take time to make a medicine table but I did light a candle on the money jar I created/activiated after receiving the book Your Intuition Led You Here, using their 3-day ritual that involve...
THE CASTLE IN THE TREES READING
I was listening to Imogen TV's beautiful soundtrack for Glen Falls Sequence, when just afterward my Itunes played this surprising track I didn't remember recording-- from the L.A. Forum group show Every.Thing.Changes. which happened last summer when I was asked to write a vision for L.A. and...
NEW MOON TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE TABLE
Since I have been sharing my tables, I continue here. The intention in creating the table was balancing masculine and feminine energy for the planet. At the back left is Bastet again, with the Angel at the center, holding a small piece of jade, polar wolves at her side, looking over the world. At th...
IN PROGRESS
As always, I have four paintings in progress: this one you have seen in at least 2 stages, what is new is the blue background and stars, which look a little like a children's book, I see now as I post the picture.Thank you so very very much for continuing this journey with me. It means everythin...
HAPPY FULL MOON, LUNAR ECLIPSE & KARTHIGAI, FESTIVAL OF LAMPS
Due to the time of morning and the current poor light of the front room, it is hard to see the details of this table, but the figurehead is Bastet, flanked by tarot moon and world cards. My partner happens to have two Bastet figures, so I put the other in the bedroom in front of a crystal during thi...
COLOR STUDIES
An Italian publisher approached me this past Friday about writing for their travel book series, this one being on California (as opposed to a country, their previous books are on Ireland, Japan, Greece, Turkey, but I do realize Cali is as big as those countries...), and over the process of figuring ...
