Oh, how my heart jumps when I drive by the old neighborhood! Hollywood Blvd, Whitley Hill , up the the hill and there is my old apartment, number 1972, like the year I lived and loved there. Everything was such a miracle. The jasmine tree that had a branch reaching into my first lover’s apartment, and bloomed, we never closed the door. The jasmine caressed us as we made love in her bed on the floor. Nobody slept on real beds back then, mattresses on the floor was the way to go. I had become a woman there in that little apartment, a feminist in the first Women’s Center on Crenshaw, and a practicing witch with a coven. Ten years of solid service, 21 holydays a year, solstices and equinoxes and the high points in between plus the full moons. Every six weeks there […]
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I have been so busy cheering for the anti-war messages, enjoyed Jon Stuart ‘s satire, ate up Mad TV old reruns, SNLs, a little of the CNN documentaries and other frothing male scenes, either fighting each other or laying dead. Corpses. I have forgotten to say, hey boys! Watch your urges to fight! Where does this testostorone driven war machine come from? Is it achieving anything good? Ever? Is it always only greed?
I have forgotten about the many dead.
Forgive me Crone Mother, I was all about fighting myself … fighting the gender wars. If mothers ran the world, there would be more common sense. There would be more baking of community breads together and eating together as a sacrament.
Mothers would turn boring do nothing meetings into spinning wheels, embroidering society. Mothers would make sure everybody had a meaningful job to perform.
If […]
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Tristan performed in Santa Ana Historical Preservation Societies 10th Annual Historical Cemetery Tour, which some of you may remember receiving an invite to attend. The one-day performance, which consisted of 16! performances, no less, occurred on October 20, 2007.
This year’s tour called ORANGE OF EXQUISITE FLAVOR: An Agricultural and Culinary History of Orange County, focused on Southern California’s agricultural industry, featuring scenes about citrus packing houses, the Holly Sugar plant,
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