Since my return I’ve taken five aimless and devoted walks. Each day the temperature would boil steady in the afternoon, my studio would turn me soggy and yet my badly conditioned apartment air was still far too warm to enjoy. There is truly no machine that can make the earth air new. So I’d journey [...]
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Sunday, May 28th, 2006Truth is honey
Monday, May 22nd, 2006Walking up one of San Francisco’s kinder hills, I saw tiny bits of green glass on the asphalt beneath my car. In a rare state already, I simply instructed myself to be sure not to drive over the glass. As I looked upward, I saw a few remaining pieces in the lining of my window, [...]
Betty Lou
Sunday, May 21st, 2006Driving past the early morning shores of Lake Tahoe, on my way home from a far more distant shore, I got a call from my beloved aunt Bettie Lou. We had not spoken in years, since my grandmother’s funeral, though I’ve always considered her one of my very favorites. She is a dear woman. One [...]
Primed
Friday, May 12th, 2006Katherine sat across my studio and watched with tired eyes. I had been priming and sanding a wide canvas for the better part of three days. This was my fourteenth coat. In the process, a pointed search for the perfect satin surface that eluded me for days, I had lost myself in the battle for [...]
The gloaming
Sunday, May 7th, 2006I drove down the long boulevard that flanks the park. It draws a deep straight line across the north side of golf lawns, wide and green. It cuts through the heart of the sprawling city, dividing color and money. And on late afternoons like that one, made sparse by the coming storm, the space created [...]