the other side

One day, in my first apartment on the Lower East Side in Manhattan, actually it was evening, I had a very frightening experience.

Eleanor Coppola made a documentary about husband Francis’ making of the film, Apocalypse Now and she named it, Apocalypse Now: A Film Maker’s Apocalypse. It’s in the vein of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo . . .

Napoleon

Revolution, we are told is merely the exchange of one despot for another. All rulers are despots, believe themselves to be deities, to be creators, especially endowed.

tante lorraine

The woman you are looking at was named at birth Laurianne Groleau, the last child of a ten sibling family. Her face radiates that “darling of the family” look.

wakinyan

Thunderbeings are a race of powerful storm spirits from Algonquian mythology that live in the sky and cause thunder and lightning. They are strongly associated with birds, particularly in artwork.

Ritual

It begins at midnight in an unlit room, save for candles, white ones signifying a pure heart at the start of a new adventure.

bobby and Junior

Watching the crowd walk by, there's this young guy, dirty blond hair, longish crewcut, khaki pants, loafers and a navy sweater, looks like a Gap model with a shy, friendly manner.

summary judgment

I have this week filed a motion for Summary Judgment against Respondent in my suit to maintain a gazebo in the yard facing my apartment;

Pre-Trial memorandum

My court case concerning a gazebo that I placed in the yard of my apartment and given written permission by management do so, and then rescinded,

stuff

Quite obviously, the planet and undoubtedly thhe cosmos is sending us a message wrapped in a virus. The planet is talking to us about resources. You know, the stuff

masking

We pretend -- we are Covid-19’s victims and it has permeated everything we touch, breathe, imbibe. It’s just around the corner, waiting, waiting, to mow us down. But the truth?

learn to code

Earlier this week I received an email from my salon reminding me of my Wednesday appointment with my colorist. Hmm, she’s still wanting to do it?

My kid sister

Chloe died on Tuesday night under the coffee table. She couldn’t stand anymore, had lost her voice; she could barely walk using her claws to drag herself. I knew this was her last day; she hadn’t eaten since the previous Saturday.

Spells for winning cases

You are able to take care of the cerebral stuff, look up the laws, the civil procedure rules, seek out precedent setting cases and write up your findings. But what of the personal side of going to court?

The Ruling

“Maine law provides that a party seeking injunctive relief by a . . . preliminary injunction has the burden of demonstrating to the court that four criteria are met . . .

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cul de sac

Love is really a room, and it’s not in your heart. It’s a place that you stumble upon, a magic room that you cannot find on your own, that you can’t wish into existence.

worlds we inhabit

Most people are not aware that folks will go to the emergency room if they are having a dangerous psychological experience that they cannot handle on their own. My position as psychiatric social worker placed me betwixt two worlds, the real world that my patients were experiencing

patriarchy

I have been watching Michael Haneke films. The first was his, The Childhood of a Leader. In it, we have a family whose father is an American diplomat in France negotiating for president Wilson . . .

Circle, square, triangle

If you look at primitive art painted in caves, on stone, tools its artists are enamored of geometrical configurations with circles, squares, stars and, the triangle, which is featured on the dollar bill and which has become the symbol denoting conspiracy.