WHAT'S GOING ON (updated 21-09-26)
People often ask me what I’m doing now! I didn't updated this section since pandemic days/lockdown. Following what I was doing before ( right now ... )
This past summer I did a three month residency in Governors Island, New York, and I am preparing for a one month residency in an island in Japan. It's called Teshima island and it's one of the art festival Setuchi Triennale. Behind the scene is a non profit organization located on an old orphanage which mission is empowering the women of the island. I am so excited that I have been learning Japanese including hiragana / kana.
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I am healing! For Real! I am integrating and connecting teachings, meditations and travel in time. I am on Cloud 9. I am seeing better, I have more clarity, calm and confidence! I think I am reconnecting with my old brain just before I was a 25-year-old car accident passenger.
I’m listening to Rick Rubin’s podcast and his wonderful book, "The Creative Act of Being," is almost always within arm’s reach in my apartment.
I no longer volunteer at Woodhull Hospital Artist Program with an HIV Wellness group who became my family—the shitty politics of the hospital made my beloved Eileen Venero retire early. Eileen ran the program for years and knew all the family members form their childhood and neighborhood and we are talking of a group where the youngest was maybe 60 years old.
And I’ve been having lots of Fun with my Folks, LAUGHING in different languages! HA! HA! HA! JA! JA! JA! W,W,W
I’ve been connecting to Bruce Willis [photo and bio below]—a furry cat that my friend Elyse Allen brought me from Santa Fe because she thought I was the person who would know what to do with it. Well, that turned me into a Pet Mama. When I pin them on my clothing, people want to pet them. My hand-carved wooden tiger, along with my 40-year-old Gizmo and my 45-year-old Yoda are guarding my dearest friend Jean Marie Casbarian in her apartment.
I got the idea for this page from Nayland Blake via Derek Sivers via James T. Green. Maybe you should make one too.
Bruce Willis arrived to the kitchen table of my apartment in Sunnyside, Queens, on December 5, 2019. Like Moses, they was wrapped in a cloth, possibly from the Tanoan people. A golden and shiny blanket filled with chocolates from Santa Fe, the kind that you never know what you're going to get. Their weight at birth was 0.375 gr. It took me a while to figure out the diaper situation but you do what you have to do. We both now happily live in the West Village in a five-floor walk up rent-stabilized apartment on the same block as Julius’, the oldest gay bar of New York City. Bruce found a new caretaker and roommate in Chupis Mokele-mbembe Grover Farley who loves them dearly. They are stealing hearts every day.