other inspirations


1.Van Peebles dialogue:

Come on feet
cruise for me
come legs
come on run
come on feet
do your thing
who put the bad mouth on me
anyway the way I pick em up
and put em down
even if it got
my name on it
won't catch me now.

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from the Melvin Van Peebles 1971 movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. 

2.
"where the love overpowers everything"

That's a quote from my friend since childhood, Wendy Snyder. We grew up a mile away from each other in Silicon Valley. She had the Loma Sereno canyon, a blue oak woodland with creek (still existing in its natural state) and I had Ross Hill, a grassland with pond at the end of my block (paved over and full of McMansions for over 20 years now.)


I'm inspired by her quote about love, to help me up when I feel discouraged and/or sad. Thank you:)

Here's her blog where I got the quote:

http://bluejayfood.wordpress.com


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3. This limerick-like poem below is my daughter's 5th grade homework assignment to write sentences with the week's vocabulary words (5/2/14)

So much depends upon

Overrated green dollars

Covered in people's germs

Stuffed hurriedly in your wallet 

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4.
"Frightful" is the name of the peregrine falcon depicted below in my son's drawing, whom Sam raises to be a hunting bird. Sam is on the right and his friend Bando is on the left in the drawing.


My son is working on a 3rd grade book report (this is in 2014.) The book is My Side of the Mountain, a 1959 youth novel written by Jean Craighead George.

The story is about a 12 year old boy living in a cramped NYC apartment who escapes to the wilderness, where he builds and lives in a tree house, and learns to live off the land. 

How did I miss this book as a kid?! Likewise I haven't seen the 1969 film based on the novel - which now I'm inspired to read and to watch. Thanks to this nine year kid I know...

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5. quote from author Marc Reisner. He wrote this book I'm reading now Cadillac Desert: the American West and It's Disappearing Water.
"San Francisco was something beyond the most explosive boomtown in history. It was the only nineteenth-century American boomtown among hundreds that never skipped a beat. It didn't decline, collapse, disappear from the earth - it just went on. This is not necessarily something to brag about, because the by-products of San Francisco's early years were horror and excess. During the gold-panning era, which went full-tilt for only five or six years, miners and calvalry massacred Indians by the thousands. When they were bored killing Indians, they lynched Mexicans, blacks, and Chinese. Market hunters feeding San Francisco and the gold country towns and camps needed about eight years to wipe out the Central Valley's herd of antelope and elk, which some had compared to bison on the Great Plains: they also slaughtered waterfowl by the millions. Whole mountainsides - whole basins, like Lake Tahoe - were shorn of virgin timber to erect San Francisco and dozens of mining towns."
      -Marc Reisner, A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate

6.
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MAGICAL  REALISM
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Call it a tribute to
Gabriel García Márquez -
we lost him on April 17, 2014 

or an attempt at relief from the horrible history described above, or the fact that all of a sudden, unexpectedly, I'm infatuated with the paintings by 19th century European artist Arnold Böcklin - most all his paintings, particularly depictions of Greek mythology and the sensual world of nymphs and satyrs. 

My understanding now is that the hidden animals in the photo below and paintings offer mystery
and magic.
-d.
5/21/14
coast live oak woodlands (Quercus agrifolia) in Golden Gate Park, May 2014


Nymph by the Fountain
Arnold Böcklin



Fir Trees at Sunset,
Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901)

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7.
This inspiration is for parents and others raising kids, check out the huffington post link for an article based on book by Anea Bogue:

[EXCERPT] 

6 Ways Fears Around Female Sexuality 

Are Screwing Up Our Girls 

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/anea-bogue/


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