ArtistEye: You are what you eat

ArtistEye: You are what you eat

ArtistEye: Art-Performance Review

ArtistEye: Art-Performance Review

Thoughts as the manuscript comes together

Cro Magnun.....NPR as I listened to NPR's segment of the difference between Neanderthals and the Cro Magnun ala a Dr. Brian Fagan, University of California, Santa Barbara professor, I am becoming happily steeped in my book research. The Cro Magnun, precursors to homo sapiens, were like modern people in terms of art, tradition, and social life. Since Atnarctica is central to the first part, Gowandalan (spelling?) was comprised on Antarctica, Africa, and South American--imagine the connection! It was thought that no humans or ancestors to the homo sapiens ever inhabited this super-continent with 6500 feet of ice sheet deep!

As far as the animism part goes, why do Anglo scholars find it so fascinating that the Original Inhabitants viewed animals as people and that humans and animals can be so engaged in a complex relationship? Observe any dog owner and this bond is unshakable...and I haven't even toughed on cats and their spiritually narcissistic tendencies liken to the humans they own. Okay, coming down off my soapbox now...

My character who is just taking shape is fishing for Patagonia toothfish and seeing the totem spirit of the woolly mammoth while he slips on the ice and proceeds to the fourth level; the first being the caverns under the ice of three levels; level one is for food storage and fish smoking, the second level is for habitation, and the third level is where the shaman live. The fourth level is visited only during times of rites of passage...what is this? A premonition, a message...from whom?

You are what you eat

What's for dinner? Vegetarian Taco Salad: yellow corn taco bowls, pinto and black beans mixed with corn and garlic salt and cumin, shredded cheddar cheese, romaine lettuce, salsa, guacamole, low-fat sour cream, and black olives---550 to 600 calories!
Sabrosita!

Art-Performance Review

I was enchanted and entertained Addison's Watertower Theatre's *Black Pearl Sings* as it was part musical and pure performance. Set in 1960's Texas, the lives of two women, Susana, a white Midwest want-to-be Harvard professor and Pearl, poor southern black woman incarcerate; the one passion they share is music and when Susana locates Pearl in prison she tries to coax out of her a "slave song" for her ethnomusicology research collection (equal Harvard promotion) that Pearl will never divulge. Though she sings this song in a sacred tribal language of Africa at the end minus Susana; she does so with the largess of an opera performer. Props and lighting were minimal to allow the acting and mostly acapella singing to be taken in fully. Pearl's line at the end of the performance that left the audience in one long, collective gasp, "I am not giving Miss Susana my song; it's for my granddaughter so she can go to Harvard."

ArtistEye: You are what you eat

ArtistEye: You are what you eat: "Life through art is the only way to see and live"

You are what you eat

EATYOURVEGGIES!
A student told me last night after research, he can find no health studies that support the health benefits of eating meat! :-)
Hummmm....

Writing

What a writer's streak....I wrote twice this week until my pen ran out of ink...I am so old school!

Politics

I've watched segments of the Kagan Supreme Court hearings and those good 'ole boys were sure trying to chew her up!

Thanks to my friend and colleague Estella's Revenge...I have a new blog! Now it won't be long before I get a smartphone or kindle!!!! Not good for someone who likes to live on the cheap!