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Monthly Archives: December 2006

bliss

this one’s from 2000… one of many watercolors

gringa en sampa :: on the tower

“Fuk. AH…Tom, I’m scared of heights,” I stammer. & it’s a little late to confess this standing 20 feet off the ground atop a steep hill mountain. Tom shrugs nonchalantly. “Maybe you can overcome it… the view is really beautiful, you know…” and pulls up the ladder, swinging his hips back and forth to prove [...]

gringa en sampa : fragments

Once upon a time a young woman went to Brazil for a short, short time and fell in love with life… a great many other things had happened that day, but when I finally arrived at the pinacoteca do estado museum in sao paolo, I took my time sketching and looking. Of particular interest were [...]

children on their birthdays by truman capote

photo by Mary Ellen Mark from Streetwise from “Children on their Birthdays” by Truman Capote Yesterday afternoon the six-o’clock bus ran over Miss Bobbit. I’m not sure what there is to be said about it; after all, she was only ten years old, still I know no one of us in the town will forget [...]

merry new year!